Many state architectural licensing boards and AIA membership requires continuing education credits each year. The number of required credits is less than 1% of the annual work hours - slightly more than two eight-hour days total time required for..
Learning and Sharing
by David Stutzman | Nov 11, 2013 | AIA, Continuing education, Professional Practice, publications, AIA CES, Arc-US, Social Media, Tech Tips
Linking BIM to Specifications
by David Stutzman | Mar 18, 2013 | AIA, BIM, CSI, Design Considerations, PPD, PPDFormat, Preliminary Project Descriptions (PPD), Professional Practice, AIA CES, Specifications, UniFormat
The promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is that project data can reside in the model and can be extracted by anyone in a form for every purpose. The reality is that useful data extraction is entirely dependent on valid data input.
Building Design and Documentation Are Iterative
by David Stutzman | Feb 11, 2013 | CSI, Design Development, outline spec, Outline Specs, PPD, PPDFormat, Preliminary Project Descriptions (PPD), Professional Practice, Schematic Design, AIA CES, Specifications, UniFormat
Building design starts with a concept, a sketch at a macro scale. At the first stroke of the designer's hand, there is no concern for concrete strength, nor concrete as a building material. The initial sketch may be a simple massing study to determine..