Speaker: Tim Waldock
Experiment with iterative design using adaptive components within Revit projects to generate shapes, and also repetition on or within those shapes to create organic architectural models and fractal patterns – those that repeat themselves within each other.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learning more about adaptive components.
2. Learning how to generate and control patterns in Revit using the “Divide & Repeat” tools
3. Applying complex parametric formulas in Revit families to create patterns and organic geometry

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline)

Level: Expert (Guru)

Speaker: Mark Tait

- What are the key issues and challenges for clients implementing BIM projects
- Can tenants be convinced BIM benefits all, and deliver fit outs in collaborative BIM
- Are Facility Managers (FM) ready for BIM
- Collaborative projects deliver the best outcomes for all
- Clash detection is just the tip of the iceberg
- How do we educate and provide the tools for all sectors of the property sector

Key Learning Outcomes:

1. Clients must be BIM savvy and be the ones to mandate collaborative BIM
2. A definitive BIM project requirement from clients filters through design, build and operation. 

Categories: Principals' Stream

Speaker: Jason Howden
If I got a $1 from all the people that have said Revit can’t do that, I’d be... This presentation will unlock some of the “secrets” to not having to use Photoshop again. We will explore sketch renderings, rendering in the cloud, working with raster images and more...

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Revit View Filters and Exploded Views.
2. Shaded View and Rendering in the Cloud.
3. Raster Images and Info Graphics Families.

Categories: General (multi-discipline), BIM Management, Visualisation

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Chris Price
Step by Step learn to create a Baluster, Profile, Terminations and Railing optimised for the newest features in Revit. Understand what is possible along with the limitations to get your deliverables out the door looking respectable without resorting to 2D.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn the new features of the railing tool in a hands on lab.
2. Learn the caveats and capabilities of the Baluster templates
3. Learn how to piece a railing together from scratch.

Categories: Architecture

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Chris Price
Step by Step learn to create a Baluster, Profile, Terminations and Railing optimised for the newest features in Revit. Understand what is possible along with the limitations to get your deliverables out the door looking respectable without resorting to 2D.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn the new features of the railing tool in a hands on lab.
2. Learn the caveats and capabilities of the Baluster templates
3. Learn how to piece a railing together from scratch.

Categories: Architecture

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Lyndon Ingram
That the lighting design information within Revit can be displayed in many useful ways to assist the stakeholders and lay person understand the design during consultation.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn more about the range of information held within Spaces.
2. Learn how to attach photometric web files to light fixtures
3. Learn how to be the master of Colour Fill Legends and Colour Fill Schemes

Categories: MEP

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Andrew Milburn
Explore the Conceptual Massing Environment in a whistle-stop tour of real & imaginary worlds: famous Dubai buildings, Doric pumpkins, parametric vegetables, adaptive mashrabiya screens. Using slide-show talk overs & live demonstrations in equal measure we will study the secrets of scalable rectangular rigs, loaded profiles and much more.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to make a scalable rectangular rig
2. Learn to use loaded profiles to loft forms
3. Learn how to link parameters to enable scalability of nested families

Categories: Architecture, Visualisation

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Clive Daniel
Co-Speaker: Brett Burling
If you want to quickly and efficiently do all your steelwork details in 3d and leave behind the old and boring 2d detail lines, then this lab is for you.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to confidently and quickly detail steelwork in 3d

Categories: Structure

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Marcello Sgambelluri
Secrets will be revealed on how to model geometrically complex families in the mass family editor and the adaptive component editor in this class by using the Revit Elephant, Cow, human and other families as samples.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to model complex organic geometry from scratch
2. Learn how to model parametric relationships
3. Learn how to animate geometry through parameters

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline)

Level: Expert (Guru)

Speaker: Alfredo Medina
It might not be necessary to use the array tool too much in the future, if we explore the capabilities of the divide and repeat feature combined with adaptive points. Not only we obtain a repetition, but also, a repetition that can adapt itself to location and the space available.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the possibilities of the divide and repeat feature to solve some AEC modeling problems that are difficult or impossible to do with the traditional array methods.
2. Understand the importance of following a graphic workflow to create a complex family that uses nested families of different types to obtain a final result.
3. Understand the difference between reference points vs adaptive points, and generic families vs adaptive families.

Categories: Architecture, Structure, MEP

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Rhys Hall
Pure Excel for Revit, No paid plugins, No Scripting, just what you have now, Microsoft office and Revit. We will look at how we can utilise Excel spread sheets to communicate the BIM model and how to drill down on information quickly.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. How to Import or Link Information into Excel
2. How to create a Table and use table tools to draw down on your data.
3. How to use Excel formulas to populate/communicate your information

Categories: General (multi-discipline)

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Phillip Miller
Co-Speaker: Chris Mckeown
This class is intended to provide some insights into the new Revit 2014 API functions that the attendees can then take away and implement into their own solutions.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. How to use and implement 5 new features of the Revit 2014 API.
2. 2014 API code examples provided.

Categories: General (multi-discipline), Third Party Tools

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jim Plume
BIM has become an established technology to support the design of buildings, but generally focusses on the building itself, at best within the context of a particular site.  This presentation explores several aspects of the urban context and in particular, how we can extend the concept of BIM to a precinct or urban scale to meet the imperatives of urban design. Through discussion of concepts and demonstrated examples, we will explore issues including: bridging the divide between GIS and BIM; the importance of geo-spatial positioning; rigorous performance assessment of precinct design proposals; interoperability and standards for precinct-scale modelling; and the use of true BIM/PIM server technologies.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Challenging our perceptions of the boundaries of BIM technology
2. Understanding how our current use of BIM fits within the broader context of urban design
3. Gaining an insight into BIM server technologies and the future opportunities for deep project collaboration

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Callum Freeman
Co-Speaker: Steve Davis
The session addresses the different methods of detailing in Revit, exploring uses and key differences between tagging and keynoting, detail components vs modelled elements.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Develop a deeper understanding of different detailing techniques in Revit
2. To consider alternative methods of detailing + annotating Revit projects
3. Better understanding the modelling/drafting balance in Revit

Categories: Architecture, BIM Management

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Marcello Sgambelluri
This lab will show step by step instruction on how to build straight walls, curved walls, sidewalks, curbs, stairs, planters, roads and other hardscape elements to follow the exact shape of any site topography. No 3rd party programs, API programming, or other programs will be used in this lab!

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to create curved and straight walls that follow the shape of site topography
2. Learn how to create curved and straight sidewalks and other hardscape that follow the shape of site topography
3. Learn how to use functionality within Revit to model hardscape on site topography

Categories: Architecture, Civil, General (multi-discipline)

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Michael Warwick
The right lighting will make your renders come alive, it's more than just shading to indicate the form, it's about making an image evoke the right emotion. Drama, intensity, focus, depth and believability can be brought out in an image through the subtle application of good lighting techniques.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand how lighting creates drama in a scene
2. Learn key Revit render and MEP settings which impact lighting
3. Leave the session feeling more illuminated!

Categories: Architecture, MEP, Visualisation

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Kevin Thickett
Co-Speaker: David Burton
Delegates will obtain an understanding of pointcloud technology, including; What constitutes a good quality pointcloud scan, and how it's obtained. How to manage the point cloud database & bring it into Revit. What to do with the data in Revit. Third party tools including pipe & duct recognition for MEP users.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Appropriate use of point cloud scanning can save time & money.
2. A point cloud is a database that can me managed & brought into Revit in a format to match the task at hand.
3. Using 3rd party tools, pipe & duct place holder objects can be generated directly from the point cloud.

Categories: MEP, General (multi-discipline), Third Party Tools

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Stephan Langella

This session seeks to identify processes for successful outcomes when joint venturing and collaborating on multiple BIM platforms in the highly charged atmosphere of winning work and then leveraging that success into to the next stage of project delivery.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. How to identify the strategies required and the factors that can influence the outcomes.

2. How to interoperate effectively between Revit & ArchiCAD, managing both the IFC Class Mapping & DWG export options.
3. Overview of using Solibri to ensure quality is maintained and coordination is efficient regardless of BIM platform
4. Overview of using dRofus to coordinate a whole project to it’s various parts on different BIM platforms & models.

Categories: BIM Management

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Antony McPhee
There are many BIM Execution Plans guidelines, standards and examples floating around. But they are all fundamentally flawed. Many of us are being forced into using them. Learn how to react to these demands, what their purpose should really be, how they should be structured, and what they should contain.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Ability to assess the applicability of BIM Execution Plan guidelines and examples.
2. Strategies to respond to a request to create a BIM Execution Plan.
3. How to create a useful BIM Execution Plan.

Categories: Principals' Stream, BIM Management

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Daniel Morrison
The use of systems within Revit can be extremely powerful, when used properly. This session is aimed at those that want to gain the advantages that systems can bring to Revit without wasting time and money.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Discover how to add multiple pieces of equipment onto your mechanical system in different configurations.
2. Combine different systems together allowing for adjustable flows in different situations.
3. Can't turn connectors on and off - You can now!!

Categories: MEP

Level: Expert (Guru)

Speaker: Jerome Buckwell
Co-Speaker: Liam Carey
In this session we will discuss how Jasmax has created workflows for incorporating the following software into our design process to produce submission reports through to building consent documentation: Sketchup, Rhino, Adobe Suite, Revit Architecture & 3dsMax.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to create flexible workflows for collaboration between software platforms
2. Learn techniques to create design reports but keep the integrity of your Revit Model
3. Learn about the alternate software to those requested by your Grads, i.e. Sketchup and Rhino vs Vasari..

Categories: Architecture

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Ceilidh Higgins
Co-Speaker: Rodd Perey
“BIM-onomics: how will BIM change the business of design?” We all know that BIM takes design to the next level, but how does it change your business?

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Be able to identify and discuss the possible change scenarios.
2. Take away a framework for analysis within your organisation
3. Be prepared with a set of strategies for change in your business

Categories: Principals' Stream

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Alfredo Medina
Very often, in forums, somebody posts a picture of a difficult roof, asking "How would you model this roof"? Usually, the answer is "use masses and adaptive points" (and no more information). Well, this lab demonstrates that you can model and control these roofs, without using masses nor adaptive points.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to model, and control by parameters, complex forms for thin shell structures, with simple geometry, without using boolean operations nor adaptive points.
2. Learn how to use some specific tools of the generic adaptive template: reference points, lines, splines, planes, hosts, and parameters.
3. To practice, hands on, how to model and control forms such as conoids, domes, hyperbolic paraboloids, in several kinds and combinations, using examples of real projects from the history of architecture and engineering.

Categories: Architecture, Structure

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Jacob Farley
Some people don't know or believe that Revit can do BCA Calculations and these types of things. With this session, you will gain knowledge into advanced scheduling, setting up a schedule to do BCA Section J6 Calculations, get ideas on how to apply this to other areas of MEP Engineering.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Knowledge into advanced scheduling
2. Setting up a schedule to do BCA Section J6 Calculations
3. Ideas on how to apply this to other areas of MEP Engineering

Categories: MEP

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Mike Whaley
This program will discuss how the contractors use models during the construction phase of project and how the designers model can be used to the benefit of both the designer, the contractor and the project!

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand why teams (designers and contractors) should share models.
2. Be able to explain the approach for developing a collaborative team for model usage
3. Be able to express the value proposition of model sharing for the team 

Categories: BIM Management

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Alfredo Medina
Very often, in forums, somebody posts a picture of a difficult roof, asking "How would you model this roof"? Usually, the answer is "use masses and adaptive points" (and no more information). Well, this lab demonstrates that you can model and control these roofs, without using masses nor adaptive points.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to model, and control by parameters, complex forms for thin shell structures, with simple geometry, without using boolean operations nor adaptive points.
2. Learn how to use some specific tools of the generic adaptive template: reference points, lines, splines, planes, hosts, and parameters.
3. To practice, hands on, how to model and control forms such as conoids, domes, hyperbolic paraboloids, in several kinds and combinations, using examples of real projects from the history of architecture and engineering.

Categories: Architecture, Structure

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Tony Ridley
Introducing some enhancements to the Revit API, that will be released as part of the 2014 version.  Hopefully demonstrating member checking and design, performed from within Revit, using analytical results that have been imported from a Robot analysis file.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. See some of the new features of the 2014 Revit API
2. See how the Revit – Robot link has developed and improved
3. See how structural design and code checking may be performed from within Revit

Categories: Structure

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Vikram Kumar
The Internet provides everyone with opportunities and challenges at all levels- individual, business, sector and country. Taking some examples in the context of larger trends, the question is asked: how can people and organisations be proactive when things change so rapidly are impossible to predict? There will also be a discussion about how organisations need to think about the Internet, differentiating between the Internet as a business function and a business strategy.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Key trends and impacts on businesses from the Internet.
2. A framework to be proactive in addressing the challenges and opportunities from the Internet.
3. Why Internet thinking, i.e. the Internet as a business strategy, is increasingly important for the ‘real’ economy
Categories: Principals' Stream

Speaker: Katia Gard
People spend too much time trying to have the perfect graphics using all kind of extra software… There are many ways of creating stunning drafting and presentation packages using only Revit.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Discovering different kind of graphic presentations
2. Getting a better understanding of the graphic display and all the tools used for visualisation
3. Having fun with Revit

Categories: Architecture, Visualisation

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Ceilidh Higgins
Can we use BIM to help us design? Information is not only a construction or post construction benefit. The use of information at the early design stages and throughout design can help us to design by checking and testing our design assumptions and options.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Think about how information could be used to drive and or test your design.
2. Demonstrate use of filters and schedules to graphically display scheduled information.
3. Use of Revit schedules to automate design checking and verification.

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline), BIM Management

Level: Intermediate

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Speaker: Clay Hickling

Co-Speaker: Adam Sheather
A multi-discipline whistle stop tour of the latest and greatest Revit API's that we have found available for free on the web. Includes a live demonstration of each API, and details of precisely where to get them. A must for any revit user seeking increased productivity!

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Discover the latest and greatest in the world of Revit API tools and where to find them.
2. Learn what Revit API add-ons are and how they can improve your productivity.

Categories: General (multi-discipline), BIM Management, Third Party Tools

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Aaron Maller
The industry as a whole discusses "traditional deliverables" as something we might one day not have to deal with.  But what methods are in 
place today that can aid you in eliminating wasteful processes and wasteful deliverables?

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn some simple ways to move information from Conceptual Design Software in to Documentation Software
2. Learn simple ways to move data from Design software to Fabrication Software
3. Learn what to communicate to your team and your clients, before the project starts.

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline), Construction/Fabrication

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Nathan Love
Co-speaker: Mark Cronin
This presentation will discuss some key points as a check list to consider when commencing your next project, as well as go over some pet hates from each discipline from a management level to some more technical side of things.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Gain more social awareness of what is out there in regards to BIM Standards, and how has Revit helped combine our disciplines.
2. Learn different ways to deal with Composite Walls / Floors
3. Entertaining the idea of sharing your Families and Parameter files between each discipline

Categories: Architecture, Structure, BIM Management

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Hisham Khoury
A detailed workshop showing the use of a Revit add-on called Elumtools to created point by point lighting calculations complying with Australian Standards. This workshop also includes setup requirements in Revit for Elumtools to work correctly and what lighting families need to include to work with Elumtools.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Good understanding of Elumtools
2. Ability to produce point by point lighting calculations inside a BIM model
3. Good understanding of how lighting families are created in Revit

Categories: MEP, Third Party Tools

Level: Expert (Guru)

Speaker: Aaron Maller
How to answer the questions of "Do we model this thing?" and how to "model it quickly, even when that means not modeling."

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understanding the when and how of Nesting Shared Content- Is it worth it in this instance?
2. Learn how to strategize big picture, and how to organize a large office's content library.
3. How to distribute and "knowledge share" with a large content library and a wide user base.

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline), BIM Management

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Rula Alatia
Co-Speaker: Victor Rojas
Four years ago, Opus Architecture was commissioned to undertake a challenging task; to give 188 of Bank of New Zealand's Retail Stores and Partners Offices (new and retrofit sites) a design and construction supervision makeover delivered by our 7 offices throughout the country.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Delegates will learn how to identify possibilities of project setup and standardisation.
2. Delegates will learn how to design an efficient project workflow.
3. Delegates will learn how to formulate an effective communication strategy by selecting appropriate content, organizational structure, and media.

Categories: Architecture

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Alfredo Medina
Rotating elements in families is always a common cause of frustration for many Revit users. In this lab class, we will make a family for a magnifying lamp with an articulated arm, and every joint needs to rotate in a certain way. We will make things rotate, by using points

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand the technique of using points to make model elements rotate in different directions.
2. Understand the usage of nested families and tied parameters.
3. Understand the importance of planning a strategy, a workflow, before making a Revit family.

Categories: General (multi-discipline)

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Marcello Sgambelluri
Have you ever wanted to scale a family in Revit or were just curious to know how to do it? This class will show you how! 

The presenter has developed four different types of scaling methods to scale families in Revit and in order to present all of them the entire lecture had to be divided into two Parts!
 
Part A will cover Methods 1 and 2, “Scale by Spline” (Method 1) and “Scale by Host” (Method 2). Attendees in this part of the lecture will get to see how to use these methods to scale the Revit Cow and other families.
 
Part B will cover Methods 3 and 4, “Scale by Placement” (Method 3) and “Scale by Rail” (Method 4)
Attendees in this part of the lecture will get to see how to use these methods to scale a Corinthian classical architectural column as well as other families. 

Also in Part B, the presenter will demonstrate that morphing a family is just the flip side of scaling a family in Revit. Attendees will get to learn the fundamentals of how to morph a family in Revit by applying the same principles that were shown in Methods 1, 2, 3 and 4.  

There are many ways to scale a family in Revit but the scaling methods presented in this lecture will be simple, efficient, practical, unique and fun so make sure to attend!
Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn scaling methods 1 and 2 and learn how and when and why to apply them to different types of families
2. Learn scaling methods 3 and 4 and learn how and when and why to apply them to different types of families
3. Learn the principles to morph families in Revit.

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline), Construction/Fabrication

Level: Expert (Guru)

Speaker: Vahid Tehrani
Co-Speaker: Jason Howden
Power Plays with Parameters – is a practical guide to using parameter to problem solve design solutions in Revit. This a two part hands-on lab designed to give novice users of Revit real-world skills that can be applied to their own projects.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Empowering design through the advanced use of smart Revit families.
2. Set-up and creation of advanced curtain panel and adaptive families.
3. Driving data by linking Revit to Excel through 3rd party tools.

Categories: General (multi-discipline), BIM Management, Visualisation

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Kelvin Tam
Surface division and curtain pattern employed in non-curtain wall modeling.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Understand concept of surface division in conceptual mass and adaptive component in Revit.
2. Create curtain pattern families that suit modeling needs.
3. Use surface division and curtain pattern in applications other than surface manipulation.

Categories: Architecture

Levels: All Levels

Speaker: Chris Price
Explore actual project case studies that all had ZERO RFI's! See the families and files and understand the intricate processes involved on these complicated out of the ordinary projects, and learn step by step how to achieve similar projects yourself...

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn some of the processes to produce shop drawings in Revit
2. Learn the required technologies for lazer cutting devices
3. Explore actual case studies on highly complicated projects, most of which many considered impossible to do in Revit.

Categories: General (multi-discipline), BIM Management

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Rodd Perey
A look at the key concepts and structure of ArchiCAD, with a comparison to Revit. The relative strengths and weaknesses of both applications will be discussed, as will interoperability between them, and workflows that combine both in a collaborative environment.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn key differences in the structure of ArchiCAD and Revit
2. Learn major capabilities and strengths of ArchiCAD
3. Learn workflows for interoperation of the two platforms for full collaborative BIM

Categories: Architecture, General (multi-discipline), BIM Management

Level: All Levels

Speaker: Russell Strange
A fun look at BIM from a perspective we can all relate too, a round trip demonstration of BIM applied to a residential home. From modelling to managing and back again this will explore many aspects of Building Information Modelling, Management and planning.

Key Learning Outcomes:
1. How to plan a BIM deliverable from design through to operations management.
2. How to deliver information in an open format (IFC, COBie, etc.)
3. Interesting ways to use information to enhance operations management on a very small scale

Categories: General (multi-discipline), BIM Management, Operations and Maintenance

Level: All Levels