LRUG returns next Wednesday, April 22nd

It has been two months since our last meeting and we manged to get another two amazing presentations lined up for you.

LRUG returns next Wednesday, April 22nd at Buro Happold for another round of talks you won't want to miss.

 

This 79th(!!) gathering will feature Lauren Poon from Autodesk on What's New in Revit 2027 and Alfonso Monedero from Heatherwick Studio on Extending Revit from Geometry to Delivery.

 

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FREE 🍺🥤and 🍕for all of you nice people.

I look forward to seeing you at LRUG

The address:

Buro Happold

Levels 5-8, The Featherstone Building

66 City Road
London
EC1Y 2AL

Regards

Mike

LRUG Meeting 18th February 2026

 Here is the link to register for the event on the 18th February:

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 The sponsor of our next event is Kinship and the first presentation will be from Matt Olsen:

Managing Revit Materials with Kinship

Materials in Revit are essential for Architects, Engineers and other AEC stakeholders. They're used in 3D visualisation, drawing production, environmental analysis and more. Yet, they are also a major pain to create, manage and share.
Most offices put significant effort into crafting good-looking materials. But unlike other content types, materials are locked within models and family files, making it exceedingly difficult to leverage that work across a firm and over time.
In this session, Matt will take you on a quick tour of key features of Revit materials and then demonstrate how Kinship’s latest release makes managing materials painless. Now you can easily capture materials from projects, organize them using classes, preview and load them through the Kinship add-in or our revamped web interface, and say goodbye to missing image files forever! You’ll see how Kinship helps you to build, manage and share a company-wide material library without the hassle and bottlenecks that typically plague materials within Revit.

Presenter – Matt Olsen

Matt is a Product Manager at Kinship, joining the team after 11 years as Associate and BIM Lead at Allies and Morrison Architects in London. Since joining he’s been working on Kinship's new materials release, bringing close knowledge of how materials in Revit are used in architectural project delivery.

Building pyRevit Tools with AI - From Zero to Toolbar Using Claude Code

AI coding tools are getting better, but without the right context they will confidently produce code that looks correct but fails at runtime.

In this session, James will show how to set up Claude Code as the ultimate pyRevit development environment - with a curated knowledge base, specialised agents, and live documentation via Context7 MCP - so that AI-generated tools actually run first time. He will demonstrate the difference between vanilla AI output and context-aware output with a side-by-side comparison, then build pyRevit tools live using autonomous coding agents that keep working until the job is done.

Presenter - James Gray

James is Associate Partner and Head of BIM at Squire & Partners, where he has worked for over a decade specialising in Revit, BIM, information management, software development, and AI.

He also runs AUTOM8LABS, building custom AI solutions, Revit add-ins, and automation tools for the AEC industry. James recently presented at Innovate2BUILD, demonstrating AI controlling Revit through natural language. 

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LRUG Meeting 29th October 2025

It has been a while since our last meeting and I hope you will be pleased to hear that we have two excellent presentations coming up next week.

Here is the link to the event:

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 The sponsor of our next event is Ideate software and the first presentation will be from Nick Johns:

 Ideate Revit Software – Automate out of Hours

How BIM Leads from many leading Architectural and Engineering organisations in the UK and globally are focusing on automating their manual, repetitive time-consuming Revit workflow tasks and scheduling them out of business hours”

We will also share some real-life case studies.

Presenter - Nick Johns:

Nick is passionate about helping architecture, engineering, construction, and building-owner companies maximise the value of their Autodesk Revit software with Ideate Software solutions.

With a strong background in the AEC industry, Nick has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses today. He leverages his expertise to guide customers towards efficient workflows, improved data management, and significant time and cost savings.

Prior to joining Ideate Software, Nick held leadership roles at prominent companies like Excitech, Staples, and Xerox Business Services, where he honed his sales and business development skills.

Outside of work, Nick is an avid runner, gym enthusiast, football coach, and enjoys exploring new music, wines, and travel destinations.

Based in Bristol, UK, Nick is dedicated to helping clients achieve their goals and succeed in the competitive AEC market

Our second presentation:

Revit Materials, Managed

Materials in Revit are essential for Architects and Engineers and others in AEC - they're used in 3D visualisation, drawing production, environmental analysis and more. Yet, they can also be a pain to create and manage.

 

Most offices put significant effort into crafting good-looking materials. But unlike other content types, materials are locked within models and family files, meaning that work is not fully leveraged. As a BIM Manager, you may be unsure how to build and distribute a material library for your office. Architects struggle to reuse good materials from past projects without bringing clutter along with them.

 

In this session, we’ll take a whistle-stop tour of materials in Revit, highlighting some of their lesser-known features buried in the Revit interface. Then you’ll get a preview of Kinship’s upcoming update and how it can help your office better organise and make the most of your Revit materials.

 

Presenter – Matt Olsen

 

Matt is a Product Manager at Kinship, joining in 2025 after 11 years as an Associate and BIM Lead at Allies and Morrison Architects in London. Since joining he’s been working on Kinship's new materials release, bringing close knowledge of how materials in Revit are used in Architectural project delivery.

I look forward to seeing you at LRUG

The address:

Buro Happold

Levels 5-8, The Featherstone Building
66 City Road
London
EC1Y 2AL

Kind Regards

Mike 

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LRUG Meeting Wednesday, 19th February 2025

The venue is our Buro Happold London office:
Buro Happold,
The Featherstone Building,
66 City Rd,
London EC1Y 2AL

These are the details of the presentations: 

Martin Wilding – KPF

Managing tech stacks in the age of AI

Synopsis:

The AI era is progressing full steam ahead, but how do you adapt your business to respond to the current pace of change? We’ve rapidly moved away from a traditional desktop software stack, but how can firms keep track of the constantly evolving software market, budget for tools you may not have heard of at the start of the year, and still stay ahead of your peers?

Chuck Driesler – Speckle

Bio:

Chuck graduated in 2019 with a B.Arch from Pratt Institute. Since then, his career has been almost exclusively dedicated to the problem of automation in the AEC industry. After some time at companies like WeWork, Pollination Tools, and Hypar, he has found a home (and a great venue to continue the project) in London and in Speckle.

Dangerously Generic Automation

Synopsis:

We keep repeating: "Speckle is your data hub!" With Automate, we offer a way to deploy all of your processes as code that runs against your data. But if you can do anything anywhere with everything, where do you start? Together, we'll take a look at how various teams are answering that question. From "micro" tools for early-stage design automation to grandiose visions that span entire project lifecycles, we'll explore how real teams are solving the real problems they face. And we'll save a little time for the industry's future, which will help us to imagine.

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LRUG Meeting Wednesday 11th September 2024

 

I would like to invite you to the next LRUG meeting in collaboration with the Society of Digital Engineers (SDE), on Wednesday 11/09/2024 at the Buro Happold London office at 18:00.

The address is: 
Levels 5-8, The Featherstone Building
66 City Road
London
EC1Y 2AL

Our event is free to attend; we have 3 interesting talks lined up, plus our legendary networking over pizzas and drinks. Spaces are limited, so please take your ticket asap.

Agenda (talks will be from approximately 18:15-2000):

• What next after the final Grenfell report? A short presentation followed by a chance to put your questions to our panel (please send these to me Michael.Bartyzel@Burohappold.com)
• SDE - Why join? The presentation will consist of an update on the benefits of joining the SDE and exciting news regarding accreditation pathways, followed by a question and answer session. SDE are kindly supplying the refreshments and food and committee members will also be available to take questions before and after the presentation. 
• Mike Turpin - Model QA and auditing, how should we do it? Is it needed? What should be checked? Staying ahead of Revit project challenges and ensuring optimal performance is crucial. By tapping into live data from your Revit models BIM Audit (Bimaudit.co.uk) offers real-time insights into the health of your projects. Eliminating the post-project assessments—our live data audits empower you to take immediate action, enhance project efficiency, and ultimately save time and resources. In this session, we want to hear from you what is important when it comes to model auditing. Are there different requirements for different project types and different disciplines or is there a baseline minimum requirement to define good practice for a Revit model?

Together we’ll learn, network, and have excellent conversation.

I look forward to seeing you there,

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On Behalf of the London Revit User Group.

Mike Bartyzel

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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.

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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.

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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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