AECtech 2021 | NYC

November 4-7, 2021 NYC / Global Hybrid 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 Our world has gone through radical transformations over the past few years. The impact on AEC is not unique from other industries but intersects a wide – and growing – range of practices and disciplines all facing similar challenges. Now more than ever the challenge is to engage these diverse industries and discover commonalities, reach beyond traditional boundaries, and share innovations for the enrichment of relationships benefitting individuals and organizations in our own and neighboring fields.

AECtech 2021 NYC was the ninth annual event. This year had a strong focus on the relationships between communities and telling stories of adaptation and evolution across industries in response to a rapidly shifting world.

Thursday

November 4

Master Classes

Friday

November 5

Symposium

Saturday

November 6

Hackathon Day 1

Sunday

November 7

Hackathon Day 2

Master Classes A huge thank you to all our Masterclass Hosts!

Full Day Classes Real-World Environmental Building Simulation Workflows With Pollination + Ladybug Tools Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey, Mingbo Peng | Ladybug Tools

Revit API. Journey From Beginner to Master in One Course Konrad Sobon | Bad Monkeys Build a Web-Based 3D Viewer With Backend Amit Nambiar, Hanshen Sun | CORE studio

Morning Classes inter-Co-operability Georgios Tsakiridis, Justyna Szychowska, Paris Nikitidis | Grimshaw Beyond Rhino.Inside.Revit Ehsan Iran-Nejad, Scott Davidson | Robert McNeel & Associates BHoM: Building and Habitat Object Model Kayleigh Houde, Erik Narhi | BHoM

Afternoon Classes Introduction to Grasshopper (GH 101) Nick Mundell, Sasha Geremia | CORE studio Calling All Functions! - Everything you need to know about calling functions using the Grasshopper Player, Hops, and Rhino.compute Andy Payne | Robert McNeel & Associates Real time project data: building 3D web visualizations with Speckle Claire Kuang, Alan Rynne | Speckle

Symposium The Augmented and Empathetic Architect Shane Burger | Woods Bagot An organizational effort towards computational design Hiroyoshi Satake | Shimizu Corporation Machine Learning Now! How Rhino Inside plus Hops brings AI to Revit Matthew Breau | Handel Architects Engineering as a Web Service Ben Howes | CORE studio Construction Industry Roundtable Parker Mundt | Suffolk Jennifer Downey | Turner Greg Dunkle | STO Building Group Val Tzvetkov | Skanska Access Designed John Cerone & Tim Li | SHoP Architects Through the Digital Looking Glass Alexandra Pollock | FXCollaborative Computational Design for All Hiram Rodriguez | Adrian Smith + Gordon Giff Architecture The Customer is Always Right Petr Mitev | Enscape Startups Roundtable Kyle Bernhardt | Testfit.io Federico Negro | Canoa Badri Hiriyur | T2D2 Daniel Blank | Toggle

Hackathon CONGRATULATIONS to our WINNERS! Best Overall Hack: MLuminance

Overlay annual daylighting feedback as you sketch.

Team Karim Daw, BIG Alexander Jacobson, BIG Peter Ehvert, BIG Ken Takahashi, Student: Tokyo University

Best Open Source: Pixeling

Enable visualization of geometry and real-time or static data (from IoT devices or other sources) on a web-server.

Team Edwin Bailey, Skanska Alfredo Chavez, Heatherwick Jeanne Li, MiraclePlus Eesha Khanna, Cornell Tech Brad Lei, RISD Daniel Escobar, Tetra Tech Amit Nambiar, CORE studio Sergey Pigach, CORE studio

Best Collaboration: Superpositioning Structures Remote Robotics

Team Ethan Kerber, Robots in Architecture Research Dr. Sven Stumm, Robots in Architecture Research Rushi Dai, Robots in Architecture Research Ardeshir Aliaskari, MRI Engineering & Testing Jonathan Kestelman, HDR

Hackathon Check out all the project teams!!

Best Fit

Ensuring your equipment gets where it needs to.

Team Matthew Bramante, Skanska Brooke Gemmell, Skanska Jeffery Moser, Grimshaw Evan Reilly, Skanska Val Tzvetkov, Skanska

{un}precedent

Generate floorplan recommendations based on previous data, allowing for a much faster ‘learning’ of existing standards and precedent projects Team Ryan Barnette, Grimshaw Álvaro Cosidó, CBRE Brandon Pachuca, KPF Ramón Peña , Populous Konrad Zaremba, Arch Deco

Facade Forecast

HOT or NOT? What’s YOUR façade’s global warming potential?

Team Robert Otani, Thornton Tomasetti Abhishek Bawiskar, CORE studio Elcin Ertugrul, CORE studio Andrew Swartzell, Pickard Chilton

Hackathon Check out all the project teams!!

Cuckoo!

Automated Outlier Analysis for Revit Team Alex Ogata Savesh Sp Jim Peraino, Spatio Metrics Zhenxiang Huang, Arrowstreet Matthew Breau, Handel Architects

Automating Analysis Model Extraction Raytracing based analysis model extraction Team Vincent Mai, NBBJ Mona Hashemi, NBBJ Danila Babko-Malyi, NBBJ Atharva Ranade, NBBJ Pragya Gupta, NBBJ

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