Data Driven Design and Construction

• The Data on Data Driven Design and Construction March 22, 2015
  I thought I’d provide an update on Data Driven Design and Construction to be published by John Wiley & Sons and hope this answers your Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). When will the book finally be published? For the publication of Data Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data, we’re looking at Fa […]
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• For AEC it’s Automate or be Automated October 23, 2014
  By Randy Deutsch AIA LEED AP Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, believes there will only be two types of jobs in the future: people who code computers, and people who get bossed around by computers. “In the future there’s potentially two types of jobs: where you tell a machine what to do, programming a computer, […]
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• The 7 Convergences in Contemporary Practice October 20, 2014
  Randy Deutsch AIA LEED AP Last summer over early morning coffee in Cambridge, Phil Bernstein – who the past couple summers has joined me on the second day – asked me what I covered on the first day of my two-day Harvard GSD BIM leadership seminar. So I gave him the run down. BIM as […]
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• Toward an Open-Source Database of Accumulated AEC Knowledge January 22, 2014
  Vishal Porwal, in a thoughtful response to a question I posed in my initial post How do we, as a discipline, capitalize on data and metadata to drive innovation in architecture and construction, just as other disciplines and industries have? wrote: Evidence based design is one of the leading fields of research that will eventually […]
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• Construction’s Big Data Problem January 14, 2014
  It is clear from reading McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI) report, Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity, that big data is now recognized as an important factor of production, alongside labor and capital. But what about productivity? Most by now recognize that leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the […]
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• A Single Source for High-Performance Building Data December 25, 2013
  I wanted to call this post “Telling AEC Truths with Statistics” because of this quote: It’s easy to lie with statistics, but it’s hard to tell the truth without them. – Andrejs Dunkels Imagine a site you could visit to gather stats, numbers, figures – evidence – to support your design and construction decisions. In […]
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• Constructors of Inexactitude, Architects of Imprecision December 20, 2013
  Architects and contractors I have worked with over the years like to be precise in what they do. And good thing. They have be. Architecture and construction aren’t just crafts and trades – they’re disciplines. There’s a level of accuracy involved in delivering a successful project. Shouldn’t we expect our data to be equally precise? […]
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• Proprietary: the Dirtiest Word in Data December 6, 2013
  Should architects, engineers and contractors give it away? By this I’m not referring to pro-bono work. Companies have a proprietary right to their property. Firms own their work and have the right to give away the copyright. Possession is, after all, nine-tenths of the law. Firms have a right to make a living. But not […]
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• Why Do We Build the Way That We Do? December 1, 2013
  The Data-Driven Design and Construction (3D + C) blog will feature and, where possible, follow and review, key industry events related to the subject of my book. On December 10, 2013 AIA Seattle will be hosting the one-day Data-Driven Design Forum featuring presentations, case studies, and panel discussions. Based on the invited list of speakers, […]
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• Welcome to Data Driven Design and Construction November 27, 2013
  Over the next year I will be writing a book, Data-Driven Design and Construction, to be published by John Wiley and Sons in 2015. The same folks who published my last book, BIM and Integrated Design, back in 2011. Since that book focused on information (the “I” in BIM), and this one on data, by […]
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