During the Great Recession, landscape architect and owner of a mid-size design-build company, Joe Hanauer decided to “tech up”. His goal then was to be a one-person design-build office. Now, with labor markets tight, using technology to create efficiencies for installation crews is increasingly important. With hardware including a tablet, computer, GPS Surveyor, altimeter level and camera, combined with software for note taking, estimating, and designing this session will reveal how they are all essential to creating an efficient workflow from first call to last shovel. This session will also show how this “almost-paper-free” technology workflow can be used to run a one-person office and scaled to work with larger firms, too.
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If you’re designing and building with a team, dynamic collaboration and workflow efficiency are vital to the success of the project. Join us as we explore how to achieve dynamic efficiency from concept to field. Using real-world projects and examples from their team on the ground in Colorado, Cheri Stringer of 12x award-winning TLC Gardens Design Build Firm will walk you through using graphics, applying detail, and utilizing sheet sets for construction implementation. Together we will tackle best practices for creating a project portfolio and analyze strategies for effective team execution with Vectorworks sheet sets, graphics, and 3D model visualizations.
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Designing landscapes with sustainability in mind is no longer a matter of preference, but one of meeting jurisdictional requirements. Site designers are increasingly leaning on design software and online resources to make their current design workflows easier, and also to help meet the new obligations in water-efficient site design. By incorporating the water needs of proposed plants, designing hydrozones for irrigation and calculating water budgets, design applications help you to plan for beautiful landscapes that maximize water efficiency.
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Landscape architecture is evolving, and BIM is becoming more important than ever. Join Todd McCurdy, FASLA to explore an example project in which workflows using BIM software were used throughout the design process. McCurdy will show the benefits of BIM on a new restaurant site, in a pedestrian zone, where planting, steps, ramps, grading, and drainage are all part of the landscape architect's scope. Like most multidisciplinary design team projects, Todd will share how crucial IFC exchanges are when each participant is using a different BIM solution, and how easily these files can be shared among team members to guide design direction with project stakeholders.
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If you are designing for event vehicular circulation, commercial parking lots, or residential driveways, being able to understand and accurately simulate vehicle turn maneuvering is essential. With the full integration of Transoft Solutions AutoTURN Online in all Vectorworks software, this design capability helps to simplify this complex task. Using a real-world project file, Nelson Huang, Civil Engineer at Transoft Solutions, Inc. and Eric Gilbey, PLA, Product Marketing Manager at Vectorworks, Inc. will walk you through different simulation scenarios that highlight the intricacies of vehicular use and parking areas, and the details surrounding them.
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Everyone is talking about BIM – big BIM, small BIM, BIM level 2. But what should you think of before you start on your BIM journey? By making sure your house is in order, with the right structure and knowledge, you can make the transition into the World of BIM a whole lot easier. This webinar is focusing on the resources and structure you will be grateful to have in place when you approach your first BIM Execution Plan – it will show you how and why you should have templates prepared, how to work with libraries of resources and how to ensure that you use all of Vectorworks’ tools when it comes to placing your project in the real world with help of GIS.
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A landscape architects’ workflow is more multi-disciplinary now than ever before. Join Stephen Schrader, PLA, ASLA, GRP, landscape architect, Renta Urban Land Design as he walks you through a multi-family development project in North Georgia. Learn how to set up drawings, integrate architectural and civil plans, utilize smart objects to capture project data and enhance presentations, make use of worksheets to report design document data, and learn best practices for sharing data with the appropriate design teams to maximize efficiencies.
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Water efficiency has become an integral part of a landscape professional’s workflow. Join Bryce Carnehl, specification support manager at Hunter Industries, and Eric Berg, RLA, LEED-AP, senior associate | landscape architect at Pacific Coast Land Design as they explore the basics of water conservation through irrigation techniques while applying these best practices within Vectorworks Landmark software.
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BIM for landscape is possible thanks to powerful softwares being utilized in the landscape design industry today. In Norway, policies have come a long way in ensuring a standard for IFC as we know it today. In this presentation, we’ll cover how BIM for landscape has evolved and shaped our way of site design for the last 15+ years, the standardization of open BIM and IFC for landscape, and explore this information in project examples – all the while evaluating design software’s place throughout current workflows.
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At a time when more site design firms are working remotely, keeping separated team members productive is not only possible, it is more easily managed than ever. Join Eric Gilbey, PLA as he shares how a multi-user environment is a key benefit to working in BIM software. Gilbey will explore how it enables a more holistic approach to project management, and how proper file and team organization enables more seamless incorporation of site project updates.
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With the growing pressures of tight budgets, quick project delivery, and the increasing need to integrate with BIM workflows, landscape architects need to work smarter, not harder. Join Eric Berg, PLA, ASLA, senior associate at Pacific Coast Land Design, Robert Anderson, PLA, ASLA, principal of ROBERT ANDERSON | landscape architect, and Matthew J. Wilkins, ASLA, associate senior landscape architect + planner at KTUA Landscape Architecture and Planning, as they discuss how their firms transitioned to site information modeling workflows from traditional CAD platforms. Attendees will explore the challenges associated with this transition through real-world workflow examples using Vectorworks® Landmark, highlighting the interdisciplinary, collaborative benefits of this change.
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This presentation will demonstrate how building information modeling (BIM) tools can be adapted to the practice of landscape architecture, resulting in what is known as site information modeling. Using case studies of built projects as examples, the presenter will show how these tools are employed for site planning and detailed project development, empowering comprehensive, innovative, and intelligent workflows that help landscape professionals make appropriate decisions early in the design process, throughout design development, and into credit documentation.
Improved landscape performance is made possible by designing with smart object tools, whether it be for meeting jurisdictional design codes or sustainability and energy efficiency site design guideline objectives. By using such tools to augment existing workflows rather than changing processes, site designers can more efficiently confirm that their designs meets these guidelines, or make the necessary changes until it does, during project development. Case study projects included in this presentation successfully gained jurisdictional approval, as well as LEED Sustainable Sites (SS) and Water Efficiency (WE) credits based on the project meeting and exceeding the expectations in the published guidelines.
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