A civil engineering and building construction firm, which also carries out research, survey, planning, designing, supervision, and other related activities. Projects include bridges, highway tunnels, stadiums, hospitals, and office buildings.

Tobishima Corporation

Civil engineering and building construction firm

Tobishima Corporation had to reorganize management resources to deal with rising IT costs due to BIM implementation. After evaluating various CAD products, considering cost, operability, installations by other companies in the same industry, and potential, Tobishima switched from its existing 2D CAD to a different, but highly compatible solution: ARES CAD software.

Mr. Aihara (left), Chief of Construction Concierge Office; Mr. Mizukoshi (center), Manager of Civil Engineering Division; and Mr. Ozawa (right), Manager of Information System Division.

Tobishima Corporation Migrates 1,600 Computers to ARES CAD Software

Graebert‘s product portfolio is anchored by the ARES Trinity of CAD software — a powerful suite of DWG-based CAD software for desktop (ARES Commander), mobile (ARES Touch) and cloud (ARES Kudo). 

ARES is the modern alternative for 2D/3D CAD in DWG, already used by 3 of the top 5 construction groups in Japan, as well as leading manufacturers such as LG, Hyundai and Samsung.

CAD Anywhere: Desktop CAD (Windows, Mac, Linux), Cloud CAD (runs in your Internet browser), Mobile CAD (Android tablets/smartphones and iOS iPhone/iPad)

Modern workflows leveraging cloud and mobile to synchronize the work across all your users and devices

DWG for BIM features in ARES Commander to create smarter CAD drawings which geometry can be extracted and updated from Revit and IFC BIM projects

ARES Commander - Desktop CAD: All the 2D and 3D features to create and modify DWG drawings on Windows, macOS and Linux

ARES Kudo - Online CAD: Create and modify DWG drawings online and enjoy new collaboration features to comment with voice, photos, texts and stamps

ARES Touch - Mobile CAD: A full set of 2D features to create, modify and annotate DWG drawings on your Android smartphone/tablet and iOS iPhone/iPad with unique collaboration feature to markup with voice, photos, texts and stamps

The ARES Trinity of CAD Software | Create and Modify DWG Files With Modern Collaboration Tools

ARES Commander CAD Software for DWG | Modern 2D and 3D CAD for Windows, Mac and Linux

ARES Kudo Online CAD for DWG Viewing, Creation and Modification in your Internet Browser

ARES Touch Mobile CAD for Android and iOS to View, Create and Annotate DWG

The ARES Trinity of CAD software by Graebert

Center Parc Longford

We are BIM Specialist with 15 years experience in the construction industry. The company specialises in BIM support services for the construction and pharmaceutical industries including:

- MEP Clash Co-ordination & Clash Detection
- Point Cloud & Drone Scanning
- Revit Family Creation
- As Built & Asset Information Models
- 3D Visualizations & Animation
- General Drawing Services (Revit, AutoCAD & Solidworks)

We have amassed vast experience working on major building projects in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the Middle East and are very proud to be accredited as an Autodesk Authorised Training & Certification Centre.
This enables us to offer a unique insight to both the academic and practical.

Engineering Documentation Ltd.

tvs design

Designers at TVS used FenestraPro to locate and define the density of  shading and glazing frit patterns for  the optimal distribution of shading 
values required by the building code.  While collaborating with engineers in  the CD stage of the project, tvsdesign utilized FenestraPro to determine 
how frit patterns and glazing types would impact the overall energy performance of the building while still meeting code compliance. Read more on the case study here: https://www.fenestrapro.com/case-studies/tvs-case-study-identify-frit-patterns/.

Savannah Convention Centre

FenestraPro is a high-performance facade design tool that supports the design and construction of beautiful, high-performing buildings. As the facade can typically influence more than half of a building's operational energy use, FenestraPro supports architects to design sustainable solutions towards net-zero carbon initiatives.

Key features include: 6D real-time rendering, BIM modeling, Energy analysis modeling, glass-to-wall ratio, passive considerations of envelope design, shading solutions

FenestraPro Glass to Wall Ratio.jpg by FenestraPro

FenestraPro Identify Energy Modelling Issues.jpg by FenestraPro

FenestraPro | Design Beautiful, High-Performing Buildings

FenestraPro | Energy Code Lookups For Code Compliance

FenestraPro | Search, Filter, Optimize Glazing Types

FenestraPro

FenestraPro | Calculating Daylighting and Solar Loads

Taisei Corporation

TAISEI decided to deploy a paperless process with DWG files centralized in the cloud, using Microsoft OneDrive for Business. This enables real-time synchronization of DWG files between the design teams, who produce the DWG drawings using ARES Commander, and the construction workers, who view the drawings on iPads. But the next challenge was to deploy a Mobile CAD solution on more than 4,000 iPads to enable the construction workers to read, annotate, and eventually modify these drawings on site.

Taisei Corporation Deploys Mobile CAD on 4,000+ Ipads

NBBJ

NBBJ, in partnership with CCDI, designed the Hangzhou Sports Park on a 400,000-square-meter site on the Qian Tang riverfront opposite the city’s new Central Business District. The main stadium broke ground in 2011 and is slated for completion in 2017.

As worldwide demand for steel increases — by 78% in the last decade alone — so does the cost, which has skyrocketed 217% since 2007. That’s why we use parametric design to cut waste while creating functionality and form.

Our designers leveraged advanced parametric scripts and modeling techniques to develop and optimize the exterior shell of the Hangzhou stadium. The steel shell and concrete bowl systems were coordinated and linked for stability and optimized steel use. Because the model was parametric, design changes could be made with an extremely short turnaround, eliminating the “build-test-discard” method common in traditional modeling.

The parametric model was used as the basis for cross-disciplinary collaboration with engineers and material consultants. The engineers and consultants could use the design team’s output directly for performing their specialized design and analysis operations. The close communication between disciplines enabled the design team to ensure quality control and also find opportunities for further optimization.

The end result? We achieved a 67% steel savings over similar arenas like the famed Bird’s Nest, the Beijing National Stadium.

Hangzhou Sports Center

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that pairs with Rhino 3D, a software program also developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper allows users to build algorithms by dragging and connecting components on a digital canvas. From parametric modeling and fabrication, lighting performance analysis, to building energy consumption, Grasshopper provides an intuitive way to explore design without requiring programming experience.

Grasshopper

Rhinoceros 3D is a 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design application software developed by the American company Robert McNeel & Associates. Utilizing NURBS mathematical modeling to produce precise representations of free-form, curving surfaces, Rhino is used in industries such as architecture, industrial design, automotive design, product design, and multimedia and graphic design.

Rhino 3D

Autodesk Revit is a building information modeling (BIM) software used by architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, NEP engineers, designers, and contractors. 

Revit

AutoCAD

BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group

Wildflower Studios is a 760,000 square foot commercial film studio situated in the Ditmars-Steinway neighborhood of
New York City. It is located on an industrial five acre lot bound by the Steinway Creek and Steinway Pianos manufacturing
warehouse. Wildflower Studios contains a total of eleven 18,000 square foot large span stages with the dimensions of 150 feet
long x 120 feet long x 60 feet high. The limited area of the site combined with generous height limitations inspired the idea to
create a vertical film studio with two levels of sound stages, a first of its kind.
The program is organized around eleven basic studio modules. Each module consists of the large span stage, vertical
transportation, and production support spaces such as scene shops and dressing rooms. The modules are organized into two
story rows contained within a single volume. A central spine between the two rows becomes the bustling heart of activity
between the stages. In addition, one entire floor provides office space for the production teams. The entire building is lifted out
of the flood plain enabling the oppurtunity to bring parking and loading beneath the studio.
The program fuses creative production with utilitarian practicality and provides a few moments for comfort and respite all
within one big warehouse. Large openings in the warehouse bring daylight into the central street and create a communal
terrace for the actors, production crews, producers, screenwriters etc. The two toned precast facade is pleated to animate
large blank facades and to transition between sharp and curved corners. Fiber cement panels on the interior provide a refined
yet utilitatirian complement to the exterior precast. The combination of these elements turn the stages into a self contained
creative village with all the logistical, technical, and social necessities to satisfy the needs of the film making industry.

Wildflower Studios

With Enscape, BIM modeling and visualization are finally united. Unlike other renderers, you don’t have to stop design to create high-quality visuals. Quickly iterate and present concept studies to find the design strategy which responds best to the unique challenges of the project. 

Accessible rendering that requires no prior specialized knowledge to use. Simply click “start” to see and experience your designs like never before.

The two-way asset placement feature enables you to pick and place single or multiple assets into designs via the rendering window.

The new navigation mode enables you to explore panoramas further with markers that allow you to jump to various panorama views.

Enscape 3.2 - Dynamic Design. Vivid Visualization.

Enscape

Enscape™ is a real-time rendering and VR plugin that empowers design workflows by turning building models into immersive 3D experiences.

V-Ray is a rendering software/plug-in developed by the Bulgarian company, Chaos Group. V-Ray is used for visualization and computer graphics across many industries such as architecture, industrial design, product design, film and video game production, and media and entertainment.

Vray

Rhino.Inside.Revit provides translation API to allow creating custom conversion workflows between your Revit data and Rhino geometry and metadata. This includes an advanced geometry conversion API to safely translate advanced Rhino shapes into Revit. The API is easily accessible from Grasshopper's Python or C# scripting components.

Rhino.Inside.Revit

Quintain

Quintain Ltd. engaged Delve to raise project density while minimizing daylighting and cost impacts, solving for complex project requirements in a 12-acre mixed-use development on the North East Lands site in Wembley Park, London.

Using Delve, Quintain generated, evaluated, and optimized 40,000 variants that increased the number of housing units (i.e. "unit yield") while preserving quality of environment over an existing benchmark design. By the end of the 8-week engagement, Delve produced 24 high-performing variants that exceeded all goals across unit yield, usable built area, daylight access, sun hours on the ground, and daylight impacts on neighbors.

Read more at: https://www.sidewalklabs.com/products/delve/quintain-case-study

Images courtesy: Delve by Sidewalk Lab

Wembley Park

Delve is a generative design product that uses machine learning to help real estate teams design better and faster with less risk. Delve identifies the best neighborhood design for a project based on the development team’s priority outcomes. 

By revealing the optimal design option, Delve helps developers meet or exceed a project’s economic goals while improving quality-of-life outcomes for residents and businesses.

To learn more about Delve and request a demo please reach out to delve@sidewalklabs.com

Delve by Sidewalk Labs

Caddisfly Add-on for Grasshopper Main Poster

Ardaena: Network of Professionals 

Tennis Court is displaced on the roof of Iran-mall project located in Tehran, Iran. The project was under progression when we got invited to work on. Ali Karimbeigi Darian was the main façade consultant and Pars-Goofca had taken on the contractor responsibility. Ardaena team was asked to manage the algorithmic shop drawing of the façade structure double curved belts. The images below show the sine based curves of the façade. We were in charge of using Grasshopper3D to produce prefabrication documents in correspondence to tiny changes but automatically matched.

IranMall TennisCourt

Passion Behind Design: Pushing the Design Envelope

Walter P Moore

Populous

Allianz Field is the permanent soccer-specific stadium home to Minnesota United FC. The iconic feature of Allianz Field is the dynamic skin which wraps around the stadium. To integrate geometric control and PTFE fabric analysis, Walter P Moore created a digital workflow in collaboration with Populous as the architect. This enabled Walter P Moore to rapidly analyze the PTFE skin, adjust the driver pipe spacing so the PTFE wasn't overstressed, and then for the architect to take the new geometry and adjust it as desired for architectural form, which Walter P Moore could then re-analyze. Ultimately, the digitally controlled geometry model of the driver pipes was delivered to the steel fabricator to facilitate production of the HSS pipes. Read more at: https://www.walterpmoore.com/projects/allianz-field

Allianz Field

Tekla Structures is a building information modeling software able to model structures that incorporate different kinds of building materials, including steel, concrete, timber and glass. 

Tekla

SAP2000 offers a single user interface to perform modeling, analysis, design, and reporting. The customizable SAP2000 interface allows users to define window layouts and toolbar layouts.

More info on pricing: https://www.csiamerica.com/sales

SAP2000

NDN is the only true engineering and production-oriented software for real project design and manufacturing. It is easy to learn, contains the fastest matrix solver in the industry, and features video game quality graphics and renderings. NDN automatically loads your structure, sizes structural members, and produces fabric patterns to your desired width. NDN Software is used by many of the most prestigious engineering consultants and fabricators worldwide.

Trahan Architects

Read more at: http://www.aecbytes.com/profile/2021/ProjectProfile-NewOrleansSuperdome.html

The New Orleans Superdome

BIM 360 is an Autodesk cloud-based solution that allows project teams to effectively work in a collaborative environment. In the AEC industry, it connects all project stakeholders to execute projects from conceptual design through construction and ultimately project turnover.

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