beyondAEC

a hackathon for the Greater Boston Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Commercial Real Estate Development community

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Hard to believe it has been nearly 2 months since #beyondAEC 2020. The official summary of the event is up, enjoy! https://t.co/xglIqpM2ep

[CORE studio @TT_CORE]

Interested in speaking at #AECTech2020?? For the first time ever, we're doing an OPEN CALL for speakers and you have the chance to submit a proposal! Submissions open on April 15 and will close June 1. More details coming soon!

#AECTechHack2020 #technology #symposium #aec

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The WINNER of the Judge’s Choice Award went to... Team “Trash Panda”!

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The WINNER of the Most Impressive Use of Technology Award went to... Team “solVR”!

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The WINNER of the Most Practical Award went to... Team “Game Footage”!

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The Team

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Team “solVR”: a tool for visualizing solar glare in #VirtualReality. Consolidates multiple experiences including parametric sliders for window opening dimensions, window treatment, tabletop models of floor plate, & #dataviz to understand experience throughout a space #beyondAEC

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The team

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Team “Fresh Plan”: a vast survey of computational approaches to Lab layouts including @KangarooPhysics, loop packing, “polyomino” (first time hearing this term for most in the audience), & evolutionary algorithms #beyondAEC

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Team “Trash Panda”: mitigating construction waste by optimizing materials through multi-objective generative design. Showcased specific use case of @DynamoBIM + Optimo to minimize gypsum board cuts & proposed suggestive interface [Justin, Susannah, Brian, Ali, & Matt] #beyondAEC

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Team “Hypar Grocery Store Configurator”: utilizing multiple Features in the @HyparAEC platform to lay out an entire grocery store complete w/ shelving, back of house, check out stands, parking lot, & more. Fully parametric & rapidly updates from user interaction #beyondAEC

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Team “Dynamo Pack & Play”: enabling @DynamoBIM multi-user collaboration by storing entire script & associated metadata within the .RVT file including list of custom packages used, author, date created, Dynamo build, etc. [@JacobWSmall & @clooz] #beyondAEC

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Team “Game Footage”: reverse-engineering @AutodeskRevit Journal files to evaluate Warnings & commands executed in order to better understand user behavior & create opportunity for suggestive modeling workflow enhancement [Nick Bowker & @don_kordeone] #beyondAEC

[Jacob Small @JacobWSmall]

@beyondAEC hackathon update:
All teams hitting that 4am wall, but still pushing though. Really good work happening all through the @SGH_Engineering Waltham office in VR, generative buildings, construction waste reduction, file sharing and others.

[Jacob Small @JacobWSmall]

It’s almost 4:30am, do you know where your DYNs are?

Well if you’re using “Pack and Play” then they could be in your RVTs.

More to come soon!

[Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo y Lopez @garciadelcast]

#BeyondAEC symposium and hackathon at #SGH, happening right now!
🏗️🤓💻

[Will @visualizor]

#beyondAEC sums it up nicely. Such is the progression of authoring tools

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ALL the teams enjoying a “family style” meal before hacking through the night #beyondAEC

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We’ve outdone ourselves this year on the trophies for the #beyondAEC Hackathon winners! 3D Voronoi clusters that pull apart so everyone on the winning team(s) take home a memento of their experience

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The #beyondAEC 2020 Hackathon starts with a fierce brainstorming session. With over a dozen project idea pitches & counting, choosing teams will be hard!