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February
Synergies Benefit Carbon Neutral Design
After nearly 10 years of market changing innovation, Green Building Studio recently announced they have signed an agreement for Autodesk, Inc. to acquire their assets. The Green Building Studio (GBS) web service will soon join the Autodesk product family. The Green Building Studio team will continue selling, training, and supporting architects as they use the web service to design carbon neutral buildings today and in the future.
“Autodesk is committed to providing technology that makes sustainable design easier and more efficient,” said Jay Bhatt, senior vice president, Autodesk AEC Solutions. “We look forward to adding the Green Building Studio technologies to the Autodesk portfolio and helping our customers more easily leverage the coordinated, reliable data created in the Revit® platform for building information modeling (BIM) to help predict performance and design buildings with reduced environmental impact.”
After closing this deal, Autodesk also plans to continue support for the Green Building Studio web service, carbon neutral building design training, and to strengthen the web service’s integration with its BIM software. The gbXML schema will remain an open industry standard, and the GBS web service will continue to be available to any other BIM software.
“We have partnered with Autodesk for many years, and commend their ongoing support for sustainability,” said John Kennedy, President & CTO, Green Building Studio. “We are eager to contribute our industry expertise in green buildings to drive mainstream adoption of sustainability and accelerate the AEC industry’s transition to carbon neutral buildings.”
This acquisition is expected to be completed in the next few months.
Economic recession fears, proposed budget cuts affecting all California state and local agencies, green spaces such as parks closing throughout Los Angeles county, and project overruns and delays could all threaten your peace of mind and the organization you help manage.
The time is right to partner with a sustainability-driven vendor focused on equipping you to mitigate these issues. Our record of supporting, integrating, and training teams with leading edge tools designed to cut costs, streamline processes, and maximize efficiency while also promoting sustainability is unmatched in southern California.
If any of the following scenarios currently result in more concerns than solutions, a partnership with us makes a lot of sense:
- Are you finding that it’s hard to keep up with large architects adopting BIM practices and as a result you cannot effectively serve them or remain a strong partner?
- Dealing with inefficiencies with tracking design changes
- Dealing with too much time and focus on low value CAD, documentation, and coordination chores
The Revit series provides a parametric change engine built to automatically coordinate changes made anywhere – in model views or drawing sheets, schedules, and sections. These are just a few areas where Revit is making tremendous strides of progress. Our expert BIM team are seasoned professionals aware of how the industry has evolved and will not only demonstrate the value of today’s technology but address how it has impacted traditional workflows in a manner that positive, proactive, and built to protect vital resources, ensure peak performance, allow your team to focus on core competencies, and be a part of a sustainable future.
Call us today – 800-578-2457 to learn more about how we are turning things around for our clients so they are streamlining workflows and becoming more productive.
New 15 - 30 minute e-Learning courses are now available for Revit MEP and Revit Series subscribers:
- Revit MEP courses include modules on designing MEP systems, creating HVAC & electrical designs, and fire protection systems.
- Revit Series courses include modules on Interference checking, creating detail views, and analyzing a model.
Simply login to the subscription portal and sign up!
Kelar Pacific will host the first Revit Structure User Group presented by Ed Tallmadge on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 6 pm. Multi-discipline coordination, linking models and managing them, copying monitors and shared positioning will be some of the key topics. Bring your projects and questions as pizza and drinks will be provided. Future meetings will occur on the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
Please register online or call 1-800-578-2457 to reserve your seat.
e-SPECS Customer Success Story
One of the largest architectural, planning, landscape, engineering and interior design firms in California, LPA, Inc. has a long history of architectural design and project management experience… LPA and its principals have been honored with over 300 design awards for their consistent leadership in urban planning, building design, landscape design and interior design.
“With e-SPECS we can do more work in less time, reducing costs while increasing project quality and service value.”
David Eaves, AIA, Project Director,
LPA, Inc.
See the Full e-SPECS Customer Success Story here.
Contact Kelar Pacific today to learn about the various product promotions currently available including a 15% discount on Designer licenses and special discounts plus incentives available for e-SPECS pilot programs.
Also, two e-SPECS for Revit webinars for Thursday February 7th are available. If you were unable to make the presentations in January, or would simply like to view another demonstration, you can register by clicking the link below.
Register HERE
An email will be sent on Wednesday February 6th to all that register and will include the webinar URL and conference call information. Please register early as space is limited to the first 30 attendees.
e-SPECS 4.0 beta If you can download and give the new e-SPECS 4.0 beta version a test drive, email partner_network@e-SPECS.com now so we can send you the download information.
Kelar Pacific LLC and EastCoast CAD/CAM, eccadcam.com are offering a unique curriculum designed specifically for contractors who are searching for the most effective AutoCAD MEP Fabrication training available. Students leave this class with all of the foundation to utilize the capabilities and great CAD features that AutoCAD MEP offers. This jointly designed curriculum based on relevant skills needed by an HVAC or Plumbing fabrication contractor to utilize AutoCAD MEP in real projects is only available from EastCoast and Kelar.
For more information contact Dave Quigley dquigley@eccadcam.com or marketing@kelar.com
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