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We dedicate Mastering Autodesk Revit 2018 to our wives and families, who have supported the pursuit of our careers and the authoring of this book. Their encouragement, understanding, and flexibility to personal time is what made this body of work possible.
—Lance, Eddy, Marcus
Ah, acknowledgments. Although all the glory of writing a book is mostly consumed by the authors, it takes so many more people than just us to actually make this happen. Just like building design, the process of writing and publishing a book is truly a team sport—and without the hard work, dedication, and willingness to put up with the authoring team, this book would never have happened.
Of all the people to thank, first we’d like to thank the staff at the Revit Factory. Without their fine work, this would be a very empty book. A special thanks to the three product managers, Harlan Brumm, Sasha Crotty, and Steven Campbell. And a huge thank-you to the rest of the Factory: thank you, guys and gals, for your hard work, innovative ideas, and desire to stay in touch with current design and construction issues.
Also, a big thanks to our technical team. They dot our i’s, cross our t’s, and chide us every time we turn in something late. Their work and effort ensure that we as authors can produce something that you the reader can actually follow. So a thank-you to our amazing and patient developmental editor, Kelly Talbot, for putting up with our excuses and typos; to copyeditor Kim Wimpsett and proofreader Rebecca Rider for taking our slang and making it readable; and to production editor Dassi Zeidel for putting all the pieces together and getting it ready for print. Thanks also to Mary Beth Wakefield for watching the schedule and allowing us to use her as an excuse not to visit family on weekends or holidays during “Book Season.” A thank-you to Alexandra Bergin, technical editor, who has given a careful and detailed eye to all of our Revit workflows, and to our excellent support team at Sybex, who helped us develop all this foxy content.
The building photograph on the cover was designed by Antunovich Associates, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Verde Pointe is a recently completed residential and retail mixed-use development located along Lee Highway in Arlington, Virginia. The project continues a long-standing collaboration between Antunovich Associates and developer McCaffery Interests to deliver distinguished mixed-use projects across the nation. The uniquely designed development achieved LEED Gold certification and features two distinct portions with mixed-use residential, retail, and parking on the west side of Uhle Street and a 12-floor contemporary residential tower on the east. Common spaces play a central role at Verde Pointe, and the sustainability-driven design encourages environmentally friendly modes of transportation. A penthouse level in the residential tower with spectacular views of the greater Washington, DC, area also houses comprehensive tenant amenity spaces. These amenities, along with on-site retail opportunities, contribute to a first-class experience for residents and exemplify destination-type developments envisioned by McCaffery Interests.
Many thanks as well to photographer Dana Bowden for taking and sharing compelling pictures of this and other projects.
http://www.antunovich.com/projects/residential/verde-pointe
www.mccafferyinterests.com/portfolio/verde-pointe
Lance Kirby is a senior business consultant with Autodesk. Lance’s primary focus is accelerating the adoption of BIM and VDC practices among owners and their supply chain of designers and contractors. He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Mississippi State University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Design and also studied at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, coincidentally alongside the creators of Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD. He spent six years in various architecture offices helping to produce everything from 400-square-foot fast-food kiosks in shopping malls to 7,000,000-square-foot federal prisons.
In 2000, he left a prominent architecture firm to join a new tech startup outside Boston to help produce a new design tool called Revit. In addition to helping develop Revit since version 1, Lance created its early tutorials and has supported hundreds of BIM projects and trained thousands of its users over the past 15 years. Coincidentally, he has also supported all the previous and current authors of this book at some point in his career. Although this is his first published book as an author, he routinely pens thousands of pages of customer reports a year.
Although Lance has been based in Atlanta since 1995, he is often out of town. When he is not traveling globally in support of Autodesk customers, he may be traveling globally with his flight attendant wife, Scarlett. He enjoys fiction, analog/digital gaming, gastronomy of the smoked-meat variety, and heavy down-tuned music.
Eddy Krygiel is a principal business consultant with the AEC team with Autodesk Consulting. Eddy focuses on BIM and technology workflows for AEC clients. He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design. He has almost 20 years of experience in architectural offices and on a range of projects from single-family residential to office, federal, civic, and aviation clients. Eddy has helped firms around the United States at both the firm level and the project level.
Eddy is the author of more than 18 books on BIM and sustainability including the Mastering Revit series and Green BIM. He has also taught BIM, construction documents, and architectural communication at the University of Kansas School of Architecture.
Marcus Kim is a senior business consultant with Autodesk. Marcus focuses on enterprise adoption of Revit and BIM workflows for AEC customers and has traveled all over the globe providing BIM services to domestic and multinational customers. Marcus received his bachelor’s degree in architecture studies from the University of Illinois in Chicago and his associate of arts and sciences degree from the American Academy of Art in digital media. During the early part of his career, Marcus pursued design and technical architecture, but he was given the opportunity to participate in a Revit pilot program where he excelled. Throughout his career, until his transition to Autodesk, Marcus managed the BIM on complex and high-profile projects such as the NATO World Headquarters for SOM Chicago, developing and implementing workflows during a time when producing BIM projects and BIM management was in its infancy. Marcus has used Revit since version 7.0 and has lectured at Autodesk University on topics such as BIM management, BIM architecture workflows on large-scale projects, and design visualization.
At Autodesk, Marcus provides both technical and business process thought leadership to his customers, helping them adopt and improve new and existing BIM workflows, training, content, and standards. He has taken BIM concepts common to AEC and applied them to other industries ranging from manufacturing to energy to mining.
Marcus is based out of the Chicagoland area and spends much of his spare time chasing after his toddler and sneaking in moments of relaxation by pursuing his other two passions, digital art and painting little toy soldiers.
Jennifer Rupnow is a principal business consultant with Autodesk Consulting and the author of Chapter 22, “Design Analysis.” Jennifer focuses on business development, team management, and project leadership for large AEC and infrastructure BIM projects. She has 15 years of experience in program management, team leadership, sustainability, building science, high-performance building design, natural resources, and ecology. She is passionate about sustainability, resiliency, and social responsibility. She has worked on a range of projects from residential to large military installations. She guides development of innovative solutions involving Autodesk products and creative workflows and services that address customer needs.
Tobias Hathorn contributed to the FormIt portion of Chapter 10, “Conceptual Design.” He is a user experience designer and product owner, creating conceptual and generative design software that streamlines the building and construction industry. Tobias guides a development team through customer research, work prioritization, design decisions, feature implementation, customer training, and validation via analytics. Beyond customer facing features and software processes, he also contributes to his team’s culture by being an enthusiastic, social conduit.
Alexandra Bergin, our technical editor, is an industry practice manager at Autodesk. Prior to joining Autodesk, she worked in the fields of architecture and construction and managed building information modeling technology for more than 10 years.