Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency

At the beginning of June 2019, a group of leading UK architects started "Architects Declare Climate and Biodiversity Emergency"
architectsdeclare.com

The list of signatories rapidly grew, and as of 19 Aug 2019 they have 580 architectural companies signed up.

On 25th July 2019 a group of leading Australian architects followed suit with Australian Architects Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency, and within a few weeks had garnered 476 signatories (and counting).  The Australian Institute of Architects have endorsed the declaration.

If you know of any architectural companies who believe in sustainable design (or say they do), please ask them to sign up.  If  architects in your country have not yet initiated such a declaration, please ask them to contact the UK group so they can affiliate.

Architects in Norway have already started a similar initiative

20th Time Presenting at RTC / BILT Conferences

RTC 2014 - Pump Up the Volume - Competition Entry

Last year this blog reached a milestone of 1 Million views.

This year I reached another milestone: Presenting at my 20th RTC / BILT Conference on various Revit topics.  At several of the conferences I did multiple presentations, so the actual total is more than 20.

For the record, here is a list of :
RTC & BILT conferences over the years:

RTC (Revit Technology Conference) grew out the Sydney Revit user group, started by Wesley Benn.  The first conference was organised by RUGS (Revit User Group, Sydney - the longest running Revit user group in the world).  As the conferences went from strength to strength, they were run by a company RTC Events, which has now morphed into DBEI (Digital Built Environment Institute).

RTC 2005 - Blue Mountains (West of Sydney), NSW, Australia 

The inaugural conference.

• I missed this one, sadly.

RTC 2006 - Shoal Bay (North of Sydney), NSW, Australia

• Attended as a delegate only - and learnt a huge amount about Revit.

RTC 2007 - Roadshow event held in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth (Australia) & Auckland (New Zealand)

• 1.  I presented at the Sydney event: "Documentation in Revit"

RTC 2008 - Brighton Beach, Sydney,  Australia

• 2.  Presented: "Revit Architecture - Advanced Modelling"

RTC 2009 - Albert Park, Melbourne,  Australia

• Attended as a delegate only - the first year of having to submit abstracts (which I failed to do)

RTC 2010 - Manly Beach, Sydney,  Australia

• 3.  Presented: "Locking Down Revit Drawings"

RTC 2011 (Australasia) - Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD,  Australia

• 4.  Presented: "Designing in Revit Using Parametric Formulas"

RTC 2011 (North America) - Huntington Beach, California, USA (NE of Sydney)

Inaugural North American conference

• 5.  Presented: "Designing in Revit Using Parametric Formulas"

RTC 2012 (Australasia) - Northbeach, Wollongong (South of Sydney), NSW,  Australia

• 6a.  Presented: "Divide and Conquer Revit v2013" - Adaptive Components & Repeaters
• 6b.  Presented: "New Stair Tools in Revit Architecture v2013"

RTC 2012 (North America) - Stone Mountain, Alanta, Georgia, USA

• 7.  Presented: "Divide and Conquer Revit v2013" - Adaptive Components & Repeaters
• Won the "Innovation" drawing competition.  Prize: Building Design Suite from Autodesk 

 

RTC 2013 (Australasia) - Auckland, New Zealand (East of Sydney)

• 8.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2013 (North America) - Bayshore, Vancouver, Canada

•      Attended DTS (Design Technology Summit) as a delegate 
• 9.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2013 (Europe) - Delft, The Netherlands

Inaugural European conference- one of my favourite venues/events

• 10.  Presented: "Fractal Fun with Revit Repeaters & Adaptive Components"

 

RTC 2014 (Australasia) - Albert Park, Melbourne,  Australia

• 11.  Presented: "Pump Up the Volume- With or Without Dynamo"

RTC 2014 (North America) - Schaumburg (West of Chicago), Illinois, USA

• 12.  Presented: "Pump Up the Volume- With or Without Dynamo"

RTC 2014 (Europe) - Dublin, Ireland

• First international conference I missed

RTC 2015 (Australasia) - Broadbeach, Gold Coast, QLD,  Australia

• 13.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2015 (Asia) - Sentosa Island, Singapore

Inaugural Asian conference

• 14a.  Presented: "Best Tall Building in the World - in Revit" - a case study on One Central Park in Sydney
• 14b.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2015 (North America) - Washington DC, USA

• Missed this one - 4 events in one year would be too much!

RTC 2015 (Europe) - Budapest, Hungary

• 15a.  Presented a case study: "Best Tall Building in the World - in Revit"
• 15b.  Conducted a LAB: "Stairway to Heaven"

RTC 2016 (Australasia) - Hunter Valley (North of Sydney), NSW,  Australia

• Attended as a one-day delegate (taking a break due to presenter burn-out)

RTC 2016 (North America) - Kierland Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

• 16a.  Presented: "Computational Design - Power to the People" - Global Parameters in Revit
• 16b.  Presented: "Making Component Stairs Work for You"

 

RTC 2016 (Europe) - Porto, Portugal

• Missed this one

 

RTC to BILT

In 2017, the name RTC was changed to BILT - as the conferences were no longer restricted to Revit

BILT 2017 (Asia) - Singapore

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2017 - Adelaide, SA (West of Sydney),  Australia

• 17.  Presented: "Power to the People - Global Parameters New Revit Feature"

BILT 2017 (North America) - Harbour Castle, Toronto, Canada

• 18.  Presented: "Create Good Looking Organic Nurby Revit Content" - Massing in Revit

BILT 2017 (Europe) - Aarhus, Denmark

• Missed this one

BILT 2018 (Asia) - Singapore

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2018 - Fortitude Valley, Brisbane (North of Sydney),  Australia

• 19.  Presented: "Create Good Looking Organic Nurby Revit Content" - Massing in Revit

BILT 2018 (North America) -St Louis, Missouri, USA

• Missed this one

BILT 2018 (Europe) - Ljubljana, Slovenia, Denmark

• Missed this one

BILT ANZ 2019 - South Bank, Melbourne, Vic (South of Sydney), Australia

• 20.  Presented: "Choosing Standards from 50 Ways to Do That in Revit"

 Anyone notice a theme in the locations?  Beaches, parks, islands, bays, valleys . . . .

*NB. This list does not include the various ancillary events such as 'Data Days', DTS, BCS etc

Stairway to Heaven - RevitCat goes to RTC Gold Coast

 

 This year I will be running a Lab Session  titled 'Stairway to Heaven' at RTC Australasia 2015 at the Gold Coast. 

This session will look at ways of making the new Stair & Railing tools in Revit work better for you.  It will start you off on the 'Stairway to Heaven' instead of languishing in the 'Stair & Railing Hell' that most Revit users live in.  *


* Disclaimer:  The aims stated above are of course restricted by the limitations of Revit software.

Stairway to Heaven

In this hands-on lab session I will be teaching new material, not previously shown on this blog, and elaborating on some concepts similar to those already described - including:

• How to create BCA compliant winder stairs in Revit (Building Code of Australia)

 

• Using the sketch tools for unusual shaped stairs

 

• How to make railings do what you want in Revit

 

• How to eliminate warnings from multistorey stairs and railings

 

So, if you want to learn more about stairs in Revit, and how to bend railings to your will, why not attend the next Revit Technology Conference on the Gold Coast, 14-16th May 2015

RTC Australasia 2015 at the Gold Coast