AECtech 2022 | NYC

November 1-6, 2022 NYC / Global Event

ENGINEERED FOR COMMUNITY DESIGNED FOR TECHNOLOGY aectech.us

About AEC Tech Each year, Thornton Tomasetti hosts New York City’s AEC Tech, welcoming technology professionals from the architecture, engineering and construction industry and beyond. Since its creation in 2013, it has evolved from a two-day conference into a four-day experience featuring professional development workshops, speakers, presentations and a 24-to-30-hour hackathon. We strive to offer the most enriching workshops in the latest technologies, engage industry leaders and provide a forum for project growth, development and networking.

By serving as a space where creative minds can devise new technologies, acquire skills and make new connections, AEC Tech is helping build an open community of knowledge sharing to promote industry progression and enhance collaboration and communication.

About CORE studio CORE studio is Thornton Tomasetti’s virtual incubator of ideas. Its name derives from the union of computational modeling and research and development, which are at the core of our firm’s mission. Our team is a diverse assortment of specialists, with each member bringing expert knowledge and an inquisitive mind to projects of every size and scope. Our experience working across all Thornton Tomasetti practices affords us unique insight into the needs of – and solutions for – our clients and our firm.

CORE studio provides a valuable interface among design and construction teams, developing new workflows and processes that promote collaboration and enhance building design. Our analyses of today’s practices allow us to envision the optimized workflows of tomorrow.

Bringing the community together in person and to the virtual world.

Programming AECtech 2022 NYC was the tenth annual event and our largest yet in both scope and participation. Thornton Tomasetti | CORE studio was excited to host a six day gathering of thought leaders from over 25 companies and organizations . This year featured 11 Virtual and 6 In Person Masterclasses hosted from experts from around the world. This year AECtech introduced a new event called the Tech Crawl where 6 local architecture and engineering firms welcomed guests to their offices to discuss how they approach innovation and apply technology with their practice. This lead up to this year’s Full Day Symposium live-streamed from the Center for Architecture in NYC where 22 presenters and panelists shared their insights and innovations. The event finished strong with a 27-hour hackathon that produced 14 uniquely innovative projects.

November 1

Virtual Masterclasses

Wedensday November 2

Tech Crawl

Thursday

November 3

Masterclasses

Friday

November 4

Symposium

Saturday

November 5

Hackathon

Sunday

November 6

Hackathon

Tuesday

Contributors A huge thank you to everyone who Contribued to make this year’s AECtech possible!

Virtual Master Classes Thank you to all the outstanding Virtual Hosts.

Full Day Classes Mastering Revit API. | Archi-lab Konrad Sobon

Parametric Structures | CORE studio Robert Otani, Alloy Kemp, Nick Mundell

Image to Image to Image | New Balance Athletics, MIT Onur Yüce Gün, Diego Pinochet, Dana Maringo

Forge Masterclass | Autodesk Forge João Martins

Half Day Classes Become a Speckle Power User | Spekle Alan Rynne, Bilal Göker

Pollination Revit Plugin Masterclass | Pollination Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari

Rhino.inside.Revit | McNeel Japhy Walton

Introducing Nuada.CFD | CORE studio Jeroen Janssen

Rhino Compute | McNeel Andy Payne

Interactive Visualization of Data | Shop Architects Tim Li, Arif Javed

Pollination Rhino Plugin Masterclass | Pollination Chris Mackey, Mingo Peng

In Person Master Classes And a special thank you to the Hosts of this year’s incredible group of Masterclasses.

Full Day Classes Forge Masterclass | Autodesk Forge Jaime Rosales

Emergent Design Workflows | Heatherwick Studio Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim, Alfredo Chavez

AWS DeepRacer | Amazon Web Services Anthony Yimsiriwattana

Pollination Apps Masterclass | Pollination

Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Nicolas Schmidt, Chris Mackey, Mingbo Peng

Half Day Classes Omniverse: Design Collaboration Accelerated | Nvidia Omniverse Robert Cervellione, Sebastian Misiurek

Omniverse: Developing Extensions | Nvidia Omniverse Robert Cervellione, Sebastian Misiurek

Tech Crawl Thank you to each of our partners in the Tech Crawl for opening up their offices to host fantastic conversations!

AECtech 2022 was excited to introduce a new event this year, the Tech Crawl. Over 60 participants visited 3 pairs of local Engineering & Architecture Firms to tour their offices and learn about innovative processes that distinguish their practice. The evening concluded with a Social Event at Thornton Tomasetti’s offices.

Group 1 Architects

SOM | Neil Katz Engineers

ARUP | Zak Kostura

Group 2 Architects

Woods Bagot | Tianmin Yang, Amir Mohebi Engineers

Walter P. Moore | Gustav Fagerstrom, Timon Hazell

Group 3 Architects

SHoP Architects | John Cerone, Tim Li Engineers

Thornton Tomasetti | Ben Howes, Nick Mundell

Symposium MVRDV

Sanne Van Der Burgh | Associate Director, Head Of Mvrdv Next

Suffolk Construction

Jit Kee Chin | Chief Data & Innovation Officer, Executive Vice President Chris Lanzisera | Vice President, Suffolk Illuminate

CORE studio

Sila Gulgec | Senior Project Engineer Seyedomid Sajedi | Ai Engineer David Mans | Senior Associate Applications Developer

TVS Design

Michael Hodge | Principal, Digital Practice/Design Technology Emilio Hernandez | Director Of Design Copmutation

Nvidia

Cobus Bothma | Nvidia Omniverse

Heatherwick Studio

Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim | Senior Associate, Head Of Geometry And Computational Design

Zahner

James Coleman | Vice President ,Innovation & R&D At Zahner

Perkins & Will

Nick Cameron | Principal, Digital Practice Director

Foster + Partners

Martha Tsigkari | Senior Partner, Head Of Applied R+D

ML in Practice Roundtable Moderator | Dan Reynolds

Onur Yuce Gun | New Balance Sergey Pigach | CORE studio Brian Furtaw | Nvidia Martha Tsigkari | Foster + Partners Pablo Zamorano Mosnaim | Heatherwick Studio

Vertical Integration Roundtable Moderator | Charlie Portelli

Christopher Diggins | Vim Aec Matthew Comber | Project Frog Christopher Sharples | Assembly Osm Clifton Harness | Testfit.io

Hackathon CONGRATULATIONS to our WINNERS! Best Overall Hack: Crash!

Real Time Rhino Collaboration.

Team

Curtis Wensley, McNeel Morteza Karimi, McNeel Russell Feathers, CORE studio Erika Santos, AECOM Moustafa El-Sawy, AECOM Callum Sykes, StructureCraf Lukas Fuhrimann, StructureCraft

Best Open Source: Dreamhopper A new Paradigm in 3D Modelling Team

Francisco Landeros, INFORM Studio Pedro Cortes, McNeel Alfredo Chavez, Heatherwick Studio Nathaniel Steinrueck, AIA Sergey Pigach, CORE studio Juan Arredondo, Columbia University Jeffrey Moser, Grimshaw Pablo Zamorano, Heatherwick Studio Sasha Geremia, CORE studio

Best Collaboration: REmap

Reconciling as-design and as-built, parametric logic in the real world.

Team

James Coleman, Zahner Brian Gillespie, McNeel Burçin Nalıncı, Zahner Nathan Barnes, Zahner Quoc Dang

Hackathon Thanks to all the project teams!

VAEttle

Performance Design Space Exploration: A Generalized Workflow Zhenxiang Huang, Vincent Mai, Daniel Gaspar, Mark Membreno, Mohsin Afsar, JP Mendez-Ruiz, Paul Laroque, Mitsu Kuroki, Peter Zhang

ShapeMaker

What if designers could encapsulate design logic online and execute smart components in a geolocated contextual analysis environment?

Alexander Schiftner, Ardeshir Aliaskari, Håkon Disse, Jeroen Janssen, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Krzysztof Jedrzejewski, Magnus Wang, Oscar Borgstrom, Pål Moen Møst, Zach Kron

Skjematest

What if designers could get office building layouts at lighting speed and understand the environment impact all at once?

Ryan Griege, Luke Minnich, Clifton Harness, Nat MacDonald, Kjetil Kristoffersen, Magnus Wang, Zach Kron

Difference Machine

Calculating differences between BIM models Augustina Aboy, Ben Ferrer, Christopher Diggins, Matt Shelp, Nick Bowker, Nick Mundell, Sophie Moore

DevHops

Visual programming interface with kanban for project management Marcin Kosicki, Jo Kamm, Justyna Szychowska, Anders Rod, Chuck Driesler

ConfigAR

Making it possible to visualize configurable designs in the real world using nothing else but your phone.

Ben Fortunato, Elcin Ertugrul, Alice Huang, Val Tzvetkov, Luke Gehron, Knut Tjensvoll, Rolando Villen, Atishay Lahr, Gokul Gupta

Project-Vibe

Fix 2d floor plan mis-alignment assuming the floor plan as a graph data structure, in which rooms are nodes and adjacencies are edges.

Brandon Pachuca, Hailey Kim, Robert Wang, Nanami Santa Cruz, Sandra Cai, Atharva Ranade, Tamaho Shigemura

Seism-Sim

Using Unity and C# to develop a program to visualize game-effect building’s time history response under an earthquake curve.

Xianqiao Yang, Matt Conway, Melissa Bidegain Yeung, Andres Roncal, Kenny Tam

GraFix

Fix 2d floor plan mis-alignment assuming the floor plan as a graph data structure, in which rooms are nodes and adjacencies are edges.

Yankun Yang, Seyedomid Sajed, Sila Gulgec, Yuan-Tung Chou, Mostapha Roudsari, Mingbo Peng, Taro Narahara, Alireza Memarian

Vis-an

Harvesting design insight from visualization models Devang Chauhan

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