Next LRUG Meeting 24th April 2024

Yes since the pandemic the six bi-monthly meetings annually have not happened, we have had virtual meetings and then gradually we had a combination of physical and virtual meetings. 

LRUG started in March 2010 and we held meeting at various venues in that first year, but we settle down and made Buro Happold's Newman Street  offices the home for our meetings. However in January this year they decided to move their offices and we have been waiting for that to happen and now they are nearly settled in their new offices it's time to get the meetings happening again.     

The new address for Buro Happold London is 5th to 8th floors of The Featherstone Building, a short distance from Old Street and Liverpool St underground stations and opposite the iconic White Collar Factory campus. 

Report to reception on the ground floor they will direct you to the elevators and tell you to report to Buro Happold's reception on the 5th Floor. They will sign you in and direct you to the meeting room. 

At the moment only a small meeting room is available, so should your find that you can not attend after getting on the attendance list please let Michael know so he can let the next person on the waiting list know and take you place. 

The presentations for LRUG's 57th Meeting will be:- 

New Features in Revit 2025 -  Symetri - Lawrence Hooker & Paul Grimston

An overview of key new features in Revit 2025, to include updates to;

• Documentation and Interface,
• Interoperability,
• Site Modelling
• Architectural and Structural Design features. 

What's in My Template - Carl Collins - 

It's been 14 years since LRUG had sessions about what's In My Template. 

Carl is in the process of creating a new MEP template for his new employer, and below is the synopsis of his talk:-   

Walk through of a new building services (MEP) template, which is still work in progress, showing what is being created, why and in what order. This will cover all content, systems, view templates and filters, view types, schedules, calculations and space types.

How to Build a Quality Content Library - Jose Fandos - Kinship

An overview of the key steps and best practices involved in building a quality Revit content library for your firm. Highlighting the most important lessons from our work with customers at Kinship.

Online details:

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LRUG Meeting Wednesday 27th September 2023

FURTHER UPDATE - OK seems like all emails may have possibly gone into span folders, eventbrite aren't really interested is solving the problem. Michael and I have come to the conclusion that with a 100 capacity that we just try and let as many people know that it's taking place and that if the venue gets to a 100 people that no more will be let in. 

If you can think of another way of issuing tickets for events in the future please email me at alan@cadalot.co.uk 

Get to the venue which is Buro Happold office at 17 Newman Street between 5 - 6pm as you will need to register at the desk.

UPDATE - Invites were sent (according to eventbrite on the 20th and 21st just after 8pm on each day. No one appears to have received them but according to eventbrite they went. However their own analytical software can not find them at the moment. 

Its been like herding cats just to manage to get to someone to help me look into this and also getting them to understand that their software is very buggy and not performing like it should. 

Being Autodesk customers we are obviously used to this. (evil grin) I will keep you updated. In the mean time can anyone suggest another application other than eventbrite we could use in the future?  

Two presentations on the evening of the 27th September 

Emma Hooper

 IFC – HELP!!!

Emma Hooper will provide a mini IFC masterclass in which she will address the following:

• What is IFC?
• Why do we need IFC?
• Viewing Revit from the perspective of data
• The IFC export and import process within Revit

Stephen Hamil

Specification and model integration 

Dr Stephen Hamil and Chris Vickers will present on the latest developments from NBS that allow designers to better link their specifications and models. Demonstrations will be provided on how to use information from NBS project specifications within Revit for drawing annotation and scheduling purposes. Recent releases from NBS have expanded the information that can be synchronised. The presentation will also look at Uniclass and improved IFC export of specification information following work by NBS as part of the Government & Industry Interoperability Group (GIIG).

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LRUG Meeting Wednesday 19th April 2023

We continue our in-person meetings this year with another two cracking presentations on Wednesday 19th April.

This will be a combination of a physical and Teams meeting. The event is sponsored by Revizto and the usual beers and pizzas will be served at the Lower Ground Floor level in Buro Happold's office at 17 Newman Steet. The event will start at 6pm, so registration from 5:30pm.

If you want to attend in-person the Eventbrite invitations will be sent out on Sunday  16th & Monday 17th April. They have now changed eventbrite and only 250 email invitations can be sent out per day and we have 500 people on the mailing list. 

As usual tickets based on a first come first served basis will be issued. There will be a waiting list, so if you grab a ticket and find you cannot attend surrender your ticket by logging into Eventbrite. 

First Presentation:

Speaker: Andrew Dobson - HBIM for Historic Buildings: Refurbishment of Big Ben for UK Parliament

This session will be a presentation about Purcell's development and use of building information modelling (BIM) and historic building information management (HBIM) and how this use has transformed Purcell's approach to documenting and designing conservation, repair, and creative adaptation of historic buildings. It will include a case study of Purcell's use of Revit software and BIM for the refurbishment of Big Ben-the world's most famous clock tower and the centrepiece of the UK parliament. The presenter has been the lead architect on this project since 2015, and construction finished in the Summer of 2022.

Second Presentation:

Speaker: Ash Curzon – Clash with Confidence

Revizto is an integrated collaboration platform designed to track project issues / activities and run clash detection in one centralised 3D environment.  With so much pressure on project teams to deliver projects more efficiently, you're often pushed into formats or platforms that you're not familiar or comfortable in.  Ash will take you through how the flexibility of Revizto will give you the ability to clash with confidence, no matter your experience level.

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Just to clear a few things up….

The London Revit User Group, is just that, and LRUG registered member get tickets on a first come first served basis  

We ask that new people wanting to attend ask to register and join the group before adding them to any event, usually after existing members have had adequate time to apply for tickets..

The General Data Protection Regulations GDPR apply to User Groups and Clubs, thus we have guidance re the GDPR and request that anyone requesting membership of the group so they receive future invites, send a statement with their information that will be held on a spreadsheet/database to create the mailing list.

Registration for Mail List and Invite List

To register please email alan@lrug.co.uk Please state in your email that

 “I have read the LRUG Privacy Policy & Subject Access Request Policy and I agree to them.”

Name (First, Last)

Job Title

Company Name If you have moved companies please let me know what your last company was or your old email address so that I can remove the old email address off the database to keep it up to date. 

Email Address If different than the one used to send the request

This information may well be contained within your standard signature used for emails.

LRUG Wednesday 15th February 2023 - Meeting

 

Below are details of the two talks for the first in-person meeting after the pandemic to be held on Wednesday 15th of February. This will be a combination of a physical and Teams meeting. It is sponsored by Kinship and we have two presentations.

The usual beers and pizzas will be served and we will have a new venue at the Lower Ground Floor level in our office at 17 Newman Steet. The event will start at 6pm, so registration from 5:30pm.

If you want to attend in-person the Eventbrite invitations will be sent out on Wednesday 8th & Thursday 9th February at 9am. They have now changed eventbrite and only 250 email invitations can be sent out per day and we have 500 people on the mailing list. 

As usual tickets based on a first come first served basis will be issued. There will be a waiting list, so if you grab a ticket and find you cannot attend surrender your ticket by logging into Eventbrite. 

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Speaker: Oliver Thomas

Design Technology Manager at BIG

Title:

BIM @ BIG – The journey going from small to big, and how to re-saddle your BIM horse on the way

 Synopsis:

Olly will in this talk take us on the journey of BIM at BIG over the years, and how it’s been to re-saddle the whole BIM setup along the way, in a fast-paced design firm like BIG. Olly will be sharing some of the thoughts, steps & developments that were done to make this as smooth as possible, as well as some insights into the wider setup at BIG.

 

Speaker:  Gary Sprague

Co-Founder and CEO at Kinship

Title:

All in the family: Kinship and content management at scale

Synopsis:

Gary will talk about who Kinship are and their experience with Revit and content, how Kinship got started, key approaches to good content management, what Kinship offers today and what’s coming.

April 2022 LRUG Meeting?

LRUG Meeting Tonight Tuesday 19th April,

Unfortunately, Mike Bartyzel has gone down with Covid and thus the physical meeting has been cancelled. However the Microsoft Teams meeting will go on. 

I have sent emails to the 25 people that managed to get tickets.

The presentations will be made by Steve Deadman the UK/EMEA Customer Success Manager of Ideate Software on the topic of Revit parameters, review how and when to use shared versus project parameters, discuss some of the newer Revit features related to parameters including:

- Global parameters

- Project-shared and family-shared parameters in key schedules

- New parameters unit types. 

Then Jose Fandos on What's New in Revit 2023

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20th October 2021 - LRUG Meeting

 Microsoft - Teams Meeting starting at 6pm 

1.      Revit Sheet and View Management:  Revit 2022.1 and Ideate Software – Richard Taylor

Revit Sheet and View management is difficult and time-consuming.  Revit has introduced some new workflows around this process within Revit 2022.1 in addition to features that have been around for years.  We will showcase those features but also talk about some workflows that are enhanced by Ideate Software solutions targeted at managing Revit Sheets and Views.

2.      Fire Safety Act and Associated Changes to Deliverables Expected – Carl Collins

A look at the direction of travel for information deliverables in light of the Building safety Act and what is likely to be expected by the new Building Safety Regulator. Also, a quick run through of activity in tis area and how it may affect construction, not just for higher risk developments.

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June 2021 LRUG Meeting

Microsoft - Teams Meeting starting at 6pm 

Presentation 1 – What’s new in Revit 2022

The last few releases of Revit have been a bit underwhelming. Has AutoDesk delivered this time being under pressure of the industry Open Letter?

Find out yourself in the presentation by Paul Grimston from Symetri.

Presentation 2 – What’s new in Enscape 2021 by Phil Read

Coming back for the third time and eagerly awaited new presentation from always entertaining Phil Read with the following features:

Brief Intro 5min.

*Real-Time Plugin (Revit, SketchUp, etc)

*Fast, inexpensive, easy to use

* Pursuit to Construction

 

Release v3.0 Overview 10 min

* Unified UI Across All Supported Design Apps

* Offline Assets / Custom Assets

* Hundreds of New Assets

 

Best Practices 20 min.

* Lighting / Self Illumination

* Material / Image Origins

* Animated Textures

* Asset Linking

 

Q&A

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March 2021 LRUG Meeting

 

It's been a year since we have had a meeting, and realistically it's still going to be some time until we can have meetings as we used too. 

A decision has been made to hold a virtual meeting using Microsoft Teams the two presenters  will be:- 

Shaun Farrell/Michael Bartyzel – BIM 360 Journey of Discovery and Necessity in Covid Times,Jose Fandos – BIM Management in Extreme Remote Conditions

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 Microsoft Teams meeting starting at 6pm on Wednesday 17th March 2021

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March 2020 Meeting Cancelled

Due to the Coronavirus the March meeting of LRUG has been Cancelled, hopefully by May things will have improved and we can once again meet up.   

November 2019 LRUG Meeting

We could not get the room for Wednesday and with AU coming fast the meeting will now take place on Thursday 14th November with two Presentations and for the first time in 10 years we are going to try and live stream the presentations there will be no gap between the presentations which will be between 6:00 – 8:00 and Beer & Pizza for those attending will be after and for those of you watching from home get pizza delivered and a couple of beers nearby.

UPDATE - Invites sent 12/11/2019 at 8:30 so if you have not received one, check your junk and spam folders and if still not there please let Alan know 

Link for the GoToWebinar access:

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/460505559202756619

Why Tracking Issues - BIM Track

What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you think issue tracking software? Clashes? And probably: “But I handle them all in Navisworks, it’s fine...”

Have you ever noticed when someone says they are fine, they usually mean the complete opposite?

In this session, we’re going to look at some of the problems with tackling coordination the traditional way. We’ll also see what else besides clashes can be resolved with a centralized BIM coordination communications platform.

We will also have a look at the latest BIM Track updates with V.P. Sales & Marketing, Christian Proulx.

A Brief History of Digital Engineering by Carl Collins - Head Of Digital Engineering CIBSE  A presentation in association with SDE (Society of Digital Engineering).

The journey through history that has brought us to this point of digital construction maturity. What milestones were along the way and which giant’s shoulders are we standing on? Finishing with a look to the future, whatever that will be.