November 1-6, 2022 NYC / Global Event
ENGINEERED FOR COMMUNITY DESIGNED FOR TECHNOLOGY aectech.us
About AEC Tech
Each year, Thornton Tomasetti hosts New York City’s AEC Tech, welcoming technology professionals from the architecture, engineering and construction industry and beyond. Since its creation in 2013, it has evolved from a two-day conference into a four-day experience featuring professional development workshops, speakers, presentations and a 24-to-30-hour hackathon. We strive to offer the most enriching workshops in the latest technologies, engage industry leaders and provide a forum for project growth, development and networking.
By serving as a space where creative minds can devise new technologies, acquire skills and make new connections, AEC Tech is helping build an open community of knowledge sharing to promote industry progression and enhance collaboration and communication.
About CORE studio
CORE studio is Thornton Tomasetti’s virtual incubator of ideas. Its name derives from the union of computational modeling and research and development, which are at the core of our firm’s mission. Our team is a diverse assortment of specialists, with each member bringing expert knowledge and an inquisitive mind to projects of every size and scope. Our experience working across all Thornton Tomasetti practices affords us unique insight into the needs of – and solutions for – our clients and our firm.
CORE studio provides a valuable interface among design and construction teams, developing new workflows and processes that promote collaboration and enhance building design. Our analyses of today’s practices allow us to envision the optimized workflows of tomorrow.
Bringing the community together in person and to the virtual world.
AECtech 2022 NYC was the tenth annual event and our largest yet in both scope and participation. Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio was excited to host a six day gathering of thought leaders from over 25 companies and organizations . This year featured 11 Virtual and 6 In Person Masterclasses hosted from experts from around the world. This year AECtech introduced a new event called the Tech Crawl where 6 local architecture and engineering firms welcomed guests to their offices to discuss how they approach innovation and apply technology with their practice. This lead up to this year’s Full Day Symposium live-streamed from the Center for Architecture in NYC where 22 presenters and panelists shared their insights and innovations. The event finished strong with a 27-hour hackathon that produced 14 uniquely innovative projects.
Programming Tuesday Wedensday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 November 5 November 6 Virtual Masterclasses Tech
Masterclasses Symposium Hackathon Hackathon
Crawl
Contributors
A huge thank you to everyone who Contribued to make this year’s AECtech possible!
Full
Half
Virtual Master Classes Thank you to all the outstanding Virtual Hosts.
Day Classes Mastering Revit API. | Archi-lab Konrad Sobon Parametric Structures | CORE studio Robert Otani, Alloy Kemp, Nick Mundell Image to Image to Image | New Balance Athletics, MIT Onur Yüce Gün, Diego Pinochet, Dana Maringo Forge Masterclass | Autodesk Forge João Martins
Day Classes Become a Speckle Power User | Spekle Alan Rynne, Bilal Göker Pollination Revit Plugin Masterclass | Pollination Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari Rhino.inside.Revit | McNeel Japhy Walton Introducing Nuada.CFD | CORE studio Jeroen Janssen Rhino Compute | McNeel Andy Payne Interactive Visualization of Data | Shop Architects Tim Li, Arif Javed Pollination Rhino Plugin Masterclass | Pollination Chris Mackey, Mingo Peng
Full Day Classes
Half Day Classes
Person Master Classes And a special thank you to the Hosts of this year’s incredible group of Masterclasses.
In
Forge Masterclass | Autodesk Forge Jaime Rosales Emergent Design Workflows | Heatherwick Studio Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim, Alfredo Chavez AWS DeepRacer | Amazon Web Services Anthony Yimsiriwattana Pollination Apps Masterclass | Pollination Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Nicolas Schmidt, Chris Mackey, Mingbo Peng
Omniverse: Design Collaboration Accelerated | Nvidia Omniverse Robert Cervellione, Sebastian Misiurek Omniverse: Developing Extensions | Nvidia Omniverse Robert Cervellione, Sebastian Misiurek
Tech Crawl
AECtech 2022 was excited to introduce a new event this year, the Tech Crawl. Over 60 participants visited 3 pairs of local Engineering & Architecture Firms to tour their offices and learn about innovative processes that distinguish their practice. The evening concluded with a Social Event at Thornton Tomasetti’s offices.
Architects SOM | Neil Katz Engineers ARUP | Zak
Group 2 Architects Woods Bagot | Tianmin Yang, Amir Mohebi Engineers Walter P. Moore | Gustav Fagerstrom, Timon Hazell Group 3 Architects SHoP Architects | John Cerone, Tim Li Engineers Thornton Tomasetti | Ben Howes, Nick Mundell Thank you
Group 1
Kostura
to each of our partners in the Tech Crawl for opening up their offices to host fantastic conversations!
Symposium
MVRDV
Sanne Van Der Burgh | Associate Director, Head Of Mvrdv Next
Suffolk Construction
Jit Kee Chin | Chief Data & Innovation Officer, Executive Vice President
Chris Lanzisera | Vice President, Suffolk Illuminate
CORE studio
Sila Gulgec | Senior Project Engineer
Seyedomid Sajedi | Ai Engineer
David Mans | Senior Associate Applications Developer
TVS Design
Michael Hodge | Principal, Digital Practice/Design Technology
Emilio Hernandez | Director Of Design Copmutation
Nvidia
Cobus Bothma | Nvidia Omniverse
Heatherwick Studio
Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim | Senior Associate, Head Of Geometry And Computational Design
Zahner
James Coleman | Vice President ,Innovation & R&D At Zahner
Perkins & Will
Nick Cameron | Principal, Digital Practice Director
Foster + Partners
Martha Tsigkari | Senior Partner, Head Of Applied R+D
Sergey Pigach | CORE studio
Brian Furtaw | Nvidia
Martha Tsigkari | Foster + Partners
Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim |
Heatherwick Studio
Harness | Testfit.io
ML in Practice Roundtable Moderator | Dan Reynolds
Onur Yuce Gun | New Balance
Vertical Integration Roundtable Moderator | Charlie Portelli Christopher Diggins | Vim Aec Matthew Comber | Project Frog Christopher
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Clifton
Sharples
Assembly Osm
Hackathon
CONGRATULATIONS to our WINNERS!
Best Overall Hack: Crash!
Real Time Rhino Collaboration.
Team
Curtis Wensley, McNeel Morteza Karimi, McNeel Russell Feathers, CORE studio Erika Santos, AECOM Moustafa El-Sawy, AECOM Callum Sykes, StructureCraf Lukas Fuhrimann, StructureCraft
Best Open Source: Dreamhopper
A new Paradigm in 3D Modelling
Team
Francisco Landeros, INFORM Studio
Pedro Cortes, McNeel
Alfredo Chavez, Heatherwick Studio
Nathaniel Steinrueck, AIA Sergey Pigach, CORE studio
Juan Arredondo, Columbia University
Jeffrey Moser, Grimshaw
Pablo Zamorano, Heatherwick Studio Sasha Geremia, CORE studio
Best Collaboration: REmap
Reconciling as-design and as-built, parametric logic in the real world.
Team
James Coleman, Zahner
Brian Gillespie, McNeel
Burçin Nalıncı, Zahner Nathan Barnes, Zahner Quoc Dang
Hackathon
Thanks to all the project teams!
VAEttle
Performance Design Space Exploration: A Generalized Workflow
Zhenxiang Huang, Vincent Mai, Daniel Gaspar, Mark Membreno, Mohsin Afsar, JP Mendez-Ruiz, Paul Laroque, Mitsu Kuroki, Peter Zhang
ShapeMaker
What if designers could encapsulate design logic online and execute smart components in a geolocated contextual analysis environment?
Alexander Schiftner, Ardeshir Aliaskari, Håkon Disse, Jeroen Janssen, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Krzysztof Jedrzejewski, Magnus Wang, Oscar Borgstrom, Pål Moen Møst, Zach Kron
Skjematest
What if designers could get office building layouts at lighting speed and understand the environment impact all at once?
Ryan Griege, Luke Minnich, Clifton Harness, Nat MacDonald, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Magnus Wang, Zach Kron
Difference Machine
Calculating
differences
between BIM models
Augustina Aboy, Ben Ferrer, Christopher Diggins, Matt Shelp, Nick Bowker, Nick Mundell, Sophie Moore
DevHops
Visual programming interface with kanban for project management
Marcin Kosicki, Jo Kamm, Justyna Szychowska, Anders Rod, Chuck Driesler
ConfigAR
Making it possible to visualize configurable designs in the real world using nothing else but your phone.
Ben Fortunato, Elcin Ertugrul, Alice Huang, Val Tzvetkov, Luke Gehron, Knut Tjensvoll, Rolando Villen, Atishay Lahr, Gokul Gupta
Project-Vibe
Fix 2d floor plan mis-alignment assuming the floor plan as a graph data structure, in which rooms are nodes and adjacencies are edges.
Brandon Pachuca, Hailey Kim, Robert Wang, Nanami Santa Cruz, Sandra Cai, Atharva Ranade, Tamaho Shigemura
Seism-Sim
Using Unity and C# to develop a program to visualize game-effect building’s time history response under an earthquake curve.
Xianqiao Yang, Matt Conway, Melissa Bidegain Yeung, Andres Roncal, Kenny Tam
GraFix
Fix 2d floor plan mis-alignment assuming the floor plan as a graph data structure, in which rooms are nodes and adjacencies are edges.
Yankun Yang, Seyedomid Sajed, Sila Gulgec, Yuan-Tung Chou, Mostapha Roudsari, Mingbo Peng, Taro Narahara, Alireza Memarian
Vis-an
Harvesting design insight from visualization models
Devang Chauhan
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