Sustainable Resources for Small-Scale BIM

Credit type: 1 AIA LU.

BIM has primarily been considered for large project documentation efficiency, while smaller projects and their design processes are often neglected. This session’s goal is to show architects and allied design professionals how the inherently data-rich nature of BIM can serve smaller and design-oriented projects. BIM can refine your building design process and help you uses materials more sustainably.

Through a series of technical vignettes, participants will see BIM in a new light: far more than an improved documentation and sharing environment reserved for large projects, BIM can improve both the efficiency of the design process and the efficiency of the design itself.

Learning Objective

• Learn about quantitative BIM design opportunities and the value of applying them to a resource-efficient design process.
• Understand how building design information can be a powerful foundation for an architect.
• Identify the applicability of BIM tools and workflows to achieve project goals for sustainable resource use and building performance.
• Learn about specific cases demonstrating BIM’s role in the optimized design of material-efficient, high-performance buildings.

François Lévy, AIA, NCARB, AIAA

Founder/Principal

François Lévy Architecture + Interiors

François Lévy, AIA, NCARB, AIAA

François Lévy AIA, AIAA is a registered New Mexico and Texas architect, author, researcher and former university lecturer who’s been designing in Austin for over twenty years. His BA in classics and philosophy is from St John’s College; he holds an M.Arch as well as an MS in architectural engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught in both the Schools of Architecture and Engineering at UT Austin, as well as at St Edward’s University and UT San Antonio’s Department of Architecture. His projects have attracted regional and national press, including Dwell Magazine and HGTV. François is the author of books on design: BIM for Design Firms as well as BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design; a contributor to the AIA’s The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice; and he has lectured widely on sustainability, Building Information Modeling (BIM), and space architecture.