Tech+ Virtual Harnessing Technology for Future Practice by The Architect's Newspaper

Harnessing Technology for Future Practice May 20, 2021

Earn up to 6 AIA LU

WELCOME TO TECH+ VIRTUAL

ABOUT TECH+ VIRTUAL HARNESSING TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE PRACTICE After a turbulent year of adjusting forecasts and changing expectations, 2021 will be a year of reemergence and growth for the AEC industry. While construction may be known for more traditional approaches that have stood the test of time, many practices have emerged that have allowed for improved communication, more complex digital fabrication, and striving innovation in the face of safety concerns and a competitive market. Tech+ Virtual Harnessing Technology for Future Practice will showcase the latest tools and research relevant to architects, engineers, and construction practices from leaders who are quantifying physical properties within the digital environment.

ABOUT THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER The Architect’s Newspaper is a media company that serves up news and inside reports to a niche community of architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, lighting designers, interior designers, academics, developers, contractors, and others interested in the built urban environment. AN delivers quality news and cultural reporting through print, including AN Interior magazine, web, blog, newsletters, and social media. AN is recognized for bringing together the top echelon of AEC industry leaders in its series of Facades+ and new TECH+ conferences. If you care about architecture and design, join our community and get in the know. Visit archpaper.com for more information.

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SYMPOSIUM AGENDA 10:15 AM ET 10:30 AM

VIRTUAL DOORS OPEN WELCOME Dionne Darling | The Architect’s Newspaper Mark Nicol | LMN Architects

10:35 AM

KEYNOTE: Biosynthetic Architecture: Non-standard Materials Innovation Jenny Sabin | Jenny Sabin Studio Sammy Medina | The Architect’s Newspaper Moderator

11:15 AM

Meet & Greet with Keynote

11:30 AM

BIZ BLITZ R Platt Boyd IV | Branch Technology Jim Stephens | Microsol Resources

11:40 AM

PANEL: The Future of Simulation in Design Christoph Reinhart | MIT Luc Wilson | KPF Robert Stuart Smith | Kokkugia Violet Whitney | Columbia University GSAPP Moderator

12:30 PM

Meet & Greet with Panelists

12:40 PM

ROUNDTABLES BQE | Streamlining with Integrated Project Management & Accounting Branch Technology | 3D Printed Facade Panels Are Unlocking Design Freedom Microsol Resources | Leveraging BIM Data from the Office to the Field

1:10 PM

Expo Break

1:20 PM

Lunch Break

1:40 PM

BIZ BLITZ Steven Burns, FAIA | BQE Software Sandeep Ahuja | cove.tool

1:50 PM

PANEL: Data Driven Pre-Construction Sophie Pennetier | Enclos Scott Overall | SHoP Architects Katie Angen | The Architect’s Newspaper Moderator

2:40 PM

Meet & Greet with Panelists

2:50 PM

Expo Break

3:00 PM

3:50 PM

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SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS MARK NICOL

PETER BROWN

Principal | LMN Architects Co-Chair

Director of Business Development | Digifabshop

Mark is a Designer and Principal who brings a broad array of skills to his projects. His work ranges from large scale mixeduse projects, to city scale urban design, to program driven higher education projects. Mark is dedicated to design innovation through the advancement of novel workflows, advanced fabrication, and innovative project delivery methods. In addition to his primary professional work, he is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he leads graduate courses positioned at the intersection between design, technology, and computation, investigating the role of structures, materiality, and digital simulation in driving the design process. Mark has lectured widely and is a thought leader in the spaces of Computational Design, Visualization, Urban Design, and Design for Higher Education. JENNY SABIN Principal | Jenny Sabin Studio Keynote Jenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean for Design at Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning where she established a new advanced research degree in Matter Design Computation. She is principal of Jenny Sabin Studio, an experimental architectural design studio based in Ithaca and Director of the Sabin Lab at Cornell AAP, a trans-disciplinary design research lab with specialization in computational design, data visualization, and digital fabrication. In 2006, she co-founded the Sabin+Jones LabStudio, a hybrid research and design unit, together with biologist, Peter Lloyd Jones. Sabin is also a founding member of the Nonlinear Systems Organization (NSO). Sabin’s collaborative research including bioinspired adaptive materials and 3D geometric assemblies has been funded substantially by the National Science Foundation with applied projects commissioned by diverse clients including Nike Inc., Microsoft Research, Autodesk, and others.

Peter’s 20+ year career bridges creative and fabrication services across many project typologies. His broad knowledge of design + build approaches continues to flourish within the digital fabrication platform at Digifabshop. Peter has an MFA at Hunter College, professional stagecraft experience, and general construction knowledge. He previously worked for an international curatorial and public art fabrication company following a decade growing his own experiential fabrication company. Working with globally recognized architects, designers, developers, brands, and general contractors, he has cultivated a diverse network and brings an intimate knowledge of delivering complex projects. His role at Digifabshop ensures that design intent, budget and schedules are clearly established with the project team from the outset and translated throughout the design development and fabrication phases. He gravitates toward collaboration and tailored teams who leverage digital tools & process with traditional craft to creatively solve design problems. SCOTT CRAWFORD Principal | LMN Scott Crawford is a designer at LMN Architects in Seattle and a founding member the firm’s in-house research and development lab, LMNts. Over his career, he’s been able to integrate emerging technologies into LMN’s design process in the service of delivering award winning work. He believes technology is a tool that can be leveraged to strengthen a designer’s intuition while also increasing their flexibility to respond to change. Scott holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Science in Design Computing from the University of Washington. MARTIN MILLER Principal, Professor Cornell University | Antistatics Martin Miller is primarily concerned with how the digital onslaught will define our future realities, both physical and virtual. He is the cofounder of the design office AntiStatics Architecture based in Beijing and New York City. Defining a mantra which is ever adaptive to emerging technologies, AntiStatics’ work seeks to find a balance between

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SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS our convergent existences. Recent works include MaoHaus, a thin-shell concrete facade with hidden embedded imagery; Pussy Hut, an inhabitable pussy hat that’s a tribute and monument to the Women’s Rights movement; and Catenaries, a responsive installation provoking the impact of air as a driver for spatial definition. SCOTT OVERALL Senior Associate, Computational Design | SHoP Architects Scott Overall is an Associate at SHoP Architects with a focus in Computational Design. Scott’s work in computation focuses on delivering complex designs to construction, exemplified by such diverse projects as the Botswana Innovation Hub in Gaborone, Botswana; WAVE/CAVE Pavilion in Milan, Italy; the Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney, Australia; and the Syracuse National Veterans Resource Center in Syracuse, New York. Outside of project work at SHoP, Scott is the author of Sasquatch Utilities, a software extension for the 3D CAD program Rhinoceros 3D, has taught Virtual Design and Construction at Columbia University and run computational design workshops at Penn State University and the University of Kentucky. SOPHIE PENNETIER Associate Director – Special Projects | Enclos Sophie holds over 12 years of experience in the design of complex structures and facades. She joined Enclos in 2018, where she has led various projects’ specialty facades scope sales and design assist efforts, engaged in prototyping, modular curtainwall systems, and various research topics such as ultra-thin glass and acoustical analysis. Prior to joining Enclos, Sophie worked on international projects as a Senior Structural Engineer with Arup. In 2010 she engaged in the industry-academia partnership research project IAPP ARC for which she developed cold bent glass numerical analysis. CHRISTOPH REINHART Director Sustainable Design Lab | MIT Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and architectural educator working in the field of sustainable building design and environmental

modeling. At MIT he is leading the Sustainable Design Lab (SDL), an inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods. He is also the head of Solemma, a technology company and Harvard University spinoff as well as Strategic Development Advisor for mapdwell, a solar mapping company and MIT spinoff. Products originating from SDL and Solemma are used in practice and education in over 90 countries. JOSEPH SKULSKI Virtual Design and Construction Specialist | Digifabshop Working as a Virtual Design and Construction Specialist at digifabshop, Joseph is exploring the interplay of digital and physical within architectural scale fabrication. A recent graduate of the B.Arch program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Joseph fostered a strong interest in parametric design, fabrication, and robotics while working with Prof. Zbigniew Oksiuta programming robotic movements to control plant growth within a biosphere for an exhibition at the Galeria Arsenal Elektrownia in Poland. At digifabshop, Joseph has rapidly expanded his applied knowledge of 3D scanning, 3D printing, CAM, Solidworks, and Grasshopper in close collaboration with numerous CNC tools and skilled fabricators. Leveraging digifabshop’s ABB robot for example, Joseph is developing uses of cross laminated timber (CLT) across a range of sculptural and modular building applications. His efforts are rooted in parametric design such as the recently completed acoustic cladding at Syracuse NVRC designed by SHoP Architects. He continues to pursue Research and Development in his role on the special projects team. ROBERT STUART SMITH Director for Autonomous Manufacturing Labs in University of Pennsylvania | Kokkugia Robert operates at the intersection of design, robotics and computation, working in these fields in both business and academia. He is a co-founding director of international architecture and design practice Robert Stuart-Smith Design, the tech company Behavioural Robotics, and co-founding partner of the design-computation research group Kokkugia. Robert’s work operates at the forefront of innovation and is enhanced through his engagement in academic research and teaching. Robert is the

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SYMPOSIUM PRESENTERS co-founding director of two Autonomous Manufacturing Labs, where he conducts funded research on multi-robot fabrication and construction. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Pennsylvania, and Principal Research Associate at University College of London’s Department of Computer Science. Robert specializes in generative design, behavior-based robotics and multi-agent systems. He consulted with Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit for a number of years and has extensive building project experience. Robert’s own design practice - Robert Stuart-Smith Design is based in the UK, and designs bespoke projects that are executed using custom robotic fabrication methods.

human-centric framework of how cities, neighborhoods, and buildings are used from day to day by the people they serve. His expertise has attracted some of the most innovative and complex urban planning projects, including Sidewalk Labs in Toronto and the East Midtown Rezoning for the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP). Luc is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where he teaches courses focused on performance-based design and urban data analytics. He is a member of the Urban Design Forum and on the planning committee for the Municipal Arts Society. VIOLET WHITNEY Adjunct Assistant Professor | GSAPP

LUC WILSON Director of Urban Interface | KPF A Director at KPF, Luc leads KPF Urban Interface, an internal think tank furthering urban planning and architectural design through computational research and a suite of proprietary analytical tools. With his interdisciplinary team, Luc has developed a unique data-driven design methodology and applied it to over 300 of KPF’s projects globally. Luc’s approach optimizes performance metrics within a

Violet is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she teaches urban data analytics and tangible computing courses, and is an advisor for an upcoming Master’s program Design and Computation in the Built Environment. She founded the Delve product at Sidewalk Labs where she applies her background in architecture and spatial data as a Senior Product Manager. She co-leads Architechies NYC a network which brings together architects and technologists in urban tech.

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Upcoming Workshops 2021 Detailing High-Performance Facades: Cladding Decisions and Sealant Strategies

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Earn CEUs after today’s program 2 presentations, up to 2 AIA CEU credits 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Leveraging BIM Data from Design to Construction in the Cloud PRESENTER:

Nick Marchek | Microsol Resources

5:00 - 6:00 PM

(1 CEU)

5 Common Design Questions for Balancing Sustainability and Cost PRESENTER:

Sandeep Ahuja | cove.tool

(1 CEU)

Up to 2 CEU credits will be provided (1 credit per presentation), directly following the TECH+ forum.

NICK MARCHEK | Microsol Resources

Nick Marchek is a Building Information Modeling (BIM) Specialist for Microsol Resources, an Autodesk Platinum Partner in their Philadelphia office. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Architecture from Pennsylvania State University. He provides consulting, training, technical support, model management, and implementation services to architectural and building engineering clients. Prior to Microsol Resources, he worked as a project architect and team leader with strong organizational skills used to complete critical initiatives on time and on budget. SANDEEP AHUJA | cove.tool

Sandeep Ahuja, co-founder of cove.tool, brings her experience of working on over 200 high performance projects. Most recently, Sandeep presented at the UN environment assembly, with 1500 global delegates, on the impact of buildings on climate change, showcased at the Tedx Atlanta and won the Forbes 30 under 30 for developing cove. tool, the automated sustainability consultant. With her desire to bring automation into the AEC world, she is pioneering the integration of data driven thinking into the design and construction process by developing and intelligent software.

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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS SILVER SPONSOR

Founded in 1995, BQE is a leading cloud-based time and expense tracking, billing, and project management software provider to professional service firms worldwide. After acquiring ArchiOffice in 2009, BQE solidified its foothold in the architecture industry, while expanding the company’s offerings to include artificial and business intelligence, fully functional mobile apps, accounting, HR and CRM (client relationship management).

Microsol Resources has been delivering integrated solutions to the architecture, engineering, and construction industries for over 30 years. The company is a recognized leader in BIM and CADbased solutions, as well as an Autodesk Platinum Partner. Besides CAD & BIM software, Microsol also provides training, consulting, staffing, 3-D printing, and data management services to help customers gain a competitive advantage and improve their overall productivity. ANNA LIZA MONTENEGRO Director of Marketing Email: info@microsolresources.com Phone: 888.768.7568

STEVEN BURNS, FAIA Chief Creative Officer Email: burns@bqe.com Phone: 310.602.4020

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Branch Technology is an advanced manufacturing Branch Technology is an advanced manufacturer using construction-scale 3D printing to unlock design freedom while providing an exclusive competitive advantage to clients who value design differentiation and innovation. These solutions include facade panels and wall systems, themebased rock work, and large exhibit installations. R PLATT BOYD IV

Building energy codes are becoming stringent around the world. cove.tool allows users to cut construction cost by 2% to 3% while meeting these new codes. It’s machine-learning algorithms to look through thousands of alternatives to help pick the best one for the project and budget. It is easy to use and learn, allowing every designer to model buildings for energy, daylight, glare, water, carbon and more. cove.tool ties in directly to AIA 2030 DDx and the CBECS database for benchmarking and reporting

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