BIM is revolutionizing the construction sector world-wide. Key strengths of this approach to modeling include:

• BIM technology is a tool for enhancing both productivity and quality of work.
• Three-dimensional representations of functional and physical characteristics of projects that form a shared source of information throughout the project’s life cycle.
• A single source of all building information for planning and implementing renovations, servicing key operational systems and even providing informational needs for emergency response providers.

Alberta Finance and Enterprise together with four of Alberta’s educational institutions (University of Alberta, University of Calgary, NAIT and SAIT) are preparing to put Alberta’s construction sector at the forefront of this developing technology by establishing an Alberta Centre of Excellence in Building Information Modeling (ACE-BIM).  The Centre will promote the use of BIM, educate businesses and individuals in its use, assist them with the implementation of BIM and play a research and development role in the advancement of the technology and the accompanying infrastructure and industry changes that it might require.

Representatives of organizations and employees that will be impacted by the adoption of BIM are being invited to complete an online survey to inform the ACE-BIM task team about their current awareness, perceptions and participation in BIM. This information will assist the team to develop effective marketing strategies to ensure Alberta remains an innovative leader of the construction sector.  Results of this survey will be presented at a BIM symposium in the fall of 2011.

How to Participate:

The ACE-BIM task team has contracted Nichols Applied Management, an independent consulting firm, to conduct the online survey. The survey will take less than 10 minutes to complete.  The web address for the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Implementation Survey is:

http://www.hostedsurvey.com/takesurvey.asp?c=BIM3343

Please complete this online survey by August 22, 2011.

Thank you for your participation.

The information you provide is being collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and will be used only for this research project.  Should you have any questions about the ACE-BIM or the survey, please contact:

Catherine Wirt [mailto: cwirt@nicholsappliedmanagement.com]

or

Allison Mones [mailto: amones@ualberta.ca]

Deadline for submissions is September 16, 2011 and the awards will be unveiled in November.  For more information follow this link http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/news/call-for-edmontons-best-urban-designs.aspx.

CAUSA

Currently, CAUSA (Calgary Architecture and Urban Studies Alliance) is in the finishing stages of defining its lineup for the year but with the recent lecture accompanying the exhibition on the work of Jeremy Sturgess, it promises to be a great year as always.  More information will be posted when it becomes available.

MADE in Edmonton

“Media, Art, Design Exposed (M.A.D.E.) in Edmonton is celebrating its 10th year of exposing art and design in our city with a ten day event, aptly named Edmonton Design Exposed (EDE): How a Decade is M.A.D.E. These ten days of design celebration, education and  discourse will be held from October 14-23, 2010 at various downtown Edmonton venues.

To kick-off Edmonton Design Exposed (EDE), we will be hosting an opening gala and lecture with a M.A.D.E. retrospective exhibit at the AGA on October 14th.“  -MADE in Edmonton news release
For more information click on the link: http://madeinedmonton.org/.

Design Matters/EVDS

Design Matters has also begun its 2010-2011 season with a lecture on September 13th, 2010 by Jeffrey Kipnis of Ohio State University.  The event was well attended and touched on a wide range of topics.  Lectures will be held about every month and to get more information on the event, please see: http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds/main/news/design-matters-lecture-series-2010-2011-announced.

Art City

Also in Calgary is the annual Art City festival currently underway.  Throughout the week and into the weekend, installations and lectures will be hosted throughout downtown Calgary and feature a range of different fields and topic areas: http://www.artcityfestival.com/

When

May 26th, 2010
From 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Where

ETLC Solarium, University
of Alberta Campus
Edmonton, Alberta
Cost : Free
Register with:
Basel Abdulaal
abdulaal@ualberta.ca
780‐271‐1333

For more information click here

RAIC AB Chapter President Robert Stirling was in attendance to help hand out the awards.

EUDA 2009 Award Winners

• West Rossdale Urban Design Plan
• The Quarters Urban Design Plan
• Ribbon of Steel
• Griesbach Neighbourhood
• Capital Health Centre
• Mill Creek Flex Homes
• Ukrainian Canadian Archives and Museum of Alberta
• Poetry Rings (in Louise McKinney Park)
• 11805 – 94 Street Façade Improvement
• Myhre’s Music Façade Improvement

Click here for more information.

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On Saturday, February 20th, the 277 cities that host PechaKucha events worldwide will converge to present one continuous edition of PechaKucha Night. Kicking off at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo, where PechaKucha Night was first conceived, the presentation wave will travel eastward, with cities presenting one after the other. Crossing all times zones and cultures, the event will be streamed live online. All proceeds will go to Architecture for Humanity for rebuilding Haiti.

Please save the date for Calgary’s contibution to this special event. Speakers and other event details will be announced shortly.

Devised and shared by Klein Dytham Architecture in 2003 as a place for designers, developers and architects to meet, network and show their work in public, PechaKucha Nights are now taking place in 277 cities around the world. The format is simple: speakers present 20 slides each, for 20 seconds per slide. Calgary Arts Development has an agreement to host PechaKucha Nights in Calgary and will be hosting several PechaKucha Nights over the course of the year.

For more information visit http://www.calgaryartsdevelopment.com/node/2036.

18 February 2010 Andrew Kudless

Principal, MATSYS, San Francisco, CA

25 March 2010 Alistair Bath

Memorial University, St. John’s, NL

22 April 2010 Ferda Kolatan

Principal, SULL, New York, NY

The CISC has brought together excellent local speakers – such as Robert Driver from the University of Alberta (who will talk about Earthquake Engineering) with experts from outside the province – Sylvie Boulanger, P.Eng. Ph.D.  ICCA-Québec and Terri Meyer Boake from University of Waterloo who will talk about The New CISC Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel Guidelines and  Mark V. Holland, P.E.; Chief Engineer;  Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. from Omaha who will discuss leading applications of the Building Information Modelling – to name a few. Randall Stout – the architect of the Alberta Art Gallery opening soon in Edmonton will be the key note speaker and discuss the design and construction of the Art Gallery.

Learning Centre Partners

The CISC Steel Workshop (Alberta Region)

An integral part of the Steel Workshop is the Steel Learning Centre, are these companies who have innovative products or technology related to steel construction will display and explain them to workshop delegates.  For a full list of the included companies, see the link below.

This workshop has been approved by the Alberta Association of Architect for learning credits for most of the sessions.  For more information on The Steel Workshop, go to http://www.cisc.ca/events/alberta/2010/TheSteelWorkshop/.

As part of the ongoing Design Matters lecture series, Hernan Diaz Alonso will be speaking on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7 pm at the Uptown Stage & Screen located at 612 8 Ave SW.

Tickets will be sold at the door for $5; U of C students attend for free.

For more information: http://www.ucalgary.ca/evds/design_matters/nov

December 3, 2009 at the Uptown Stage & Screen, 7:30 pm, $10

Calgary Arts Development Presents our 2nd PechaKucha Night: “How We Live Together”. Join architects, planners, artists and other great minds in exploring how cities become truly live-able places and how the design decisions we make today affect the future of our environmental, social and economic landscape.

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/calgary