Tag: Design
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MottMac JV to design major nuclear submarine site expansion
Rolls-Royce Submarines infrastructure director, Terry Meighan, said: “The expansion work we have planned is of critical national importance as it enables us to safely increase our speed of manufacture, helping to deliver Dreadnought and the new SSN-AUKUS attack submarines at a much faster rate.” View the original article and our Inspiration here
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British Academy of Interior Design | Blog
The road from law to interior design is not exactly a straight line, and no one knows this better than Kelly Moorcroft. Like every other natural-born interior designer who has come before her, Kelly remembers being a young girl, constantly rearranging her bedroom furniture and scribbling in her sketchbooks. While she was always a creative-minded…
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How to create a cohesive home theme with subtle design elements
Designing a home is more than just adding a collection of elements you love. For the best look overall, it’s important to consider how all the pieces work together and the story they tell. Creating a cohesive theme throughout your home might seem daunting with so many styles, colours, and textures to choose from. With…
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A Preconstruction Tool Receives Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award
JE Dunn Construction’s innovative preconstruction tool, Align, was honored with Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design award in the large business category this July. Developed in collaboration with design and technology consultant Crema, Align can revolutionize how the industry handles project cost estimation and budgeting. It eliminates much of the initial uncertainty and stress typically…
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Building Optimization with TestFit’s New Generative Design
In the 1980s, I was a young architect assigned to a laboratory project with a more senior professional. At the outset, the client wanted us to present alternatives. We developed three solutions. If TestFit’s new generative design tool had been available back then, the number would have been around twenty-five thousand. Why did we settle…
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Aecmaster’s Digital Twin: A New Era for Building Design
I sat down with Anssi Auvinen, the CEO and founder of Finnish startup Aecmaster, to discuss the future of design and how the company plans to make it happen. Anssi envisions data-driven design as the next radical change in the AEC sector. Anssi Auvinen Anssi Auvinen started working in the building industry as a 16-year-old…
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4D BIM for Design – An Interview with Jouni Ojala of Granlund
4D BIM has garnered significant attention in recent years. It is a method that adds a time and resource dimension to building information models. I sat down with Jouni Ojala, a Granlund expert in the field, to discuss the transformative impact of 4D BIM and how it can be applied in design scheduling. In my…
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5 New Church Design Trends
Times are changing rapidly, and the way Americans engage with religious institutions reflects that. To meet these changing times, churches need to balance the traditions that define them with trends that keep them relevant. Construction projects bring these competing ideals to a head, but you don’t have to navigate these challenges alone. Horst is here…
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Autodesk Informed Design Connects Design and Make Workflows
Autodesk, Inc. has introduced Autodesk Informed Design, a new cloud-based solution designed to integrate design and manufacturing workflows with the aim of improving efficiency in the building design and construction process. The tool allows architects to utilize customizable, predefined building products that ensure valid outcomes and enables manufacturers to make their products accessible to design…
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Designing the Process to Deliver Zero-Carbon Construction – Computational Design in Practice
Computational Design is generating increasing interest in the construction industry as well as a certain amount of confusion. It is not parametric design; instead it takes parametric design to the next level. It is a set of methods that will define how we design structures over the next decades. With Computational Design, you don’t design…