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techtrends The Open Standards Deployed in BIMStorm u Industry Foundation Classes u National Institute of Building Sciences’ buildingSmart Alliance u Open Geospatial Consortium for GIS and Web Services u Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate or Building Owners and Managers Association’s calculations and space classifications u World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for Internet Standards u International Code Council’s SmartCodes As a result of her input, one of the teams decided to put a green roof on a school to be built in Los Angeles. “Another team created a plan to park the cars underground and make a grade-level green roof,” Weber said. Weber also offered the participants an opportunity for water conservation. “The annual flushing of the fire hydrant lines [to check pressure] could cost about 1,000– 2,000 gallons of water per minute. Generally, it takes about 5–10 minutes to check each,” she estimated. The project site for BIMStorm contains about 300 hydrants. “That’s about six million gallons of water to be flushed out of Los Angeles, where water is at a premium,” she remarked. Her recommendation was to capture this water in cisterns and use it for irrigation of green roofs. the building owner maintenance cost over time. “They won’t have to replace the roof that often, because it controls roof expansion from weather, and it protects against damage from UV rays,” she said. Many of the energy-modeling software packages now include modules for solar-panel configurations, but Weber would love to see the same consideration for green roofing. “You can actually combine solar panels with green roofing,” she suggested. “Solar panels are optimal at 77º F. A conventional roof on a hot day gets to 150º–200º F. So acting as temperature control, the plants can increase the solar panels’ efficiency.” From LA to Tijuana Finith Jernigan, the author of BIG BIM little bim (4Site Press, 2007) and an architect from Design Atlantic, was assigned to monitor the new buildings springing at the site and plan for adequate emergency services, which included uploading prototype fire stations and advising the teams about the size of the station that would be necessary to match the serviceable zone. “At the same time, we were also helping another team build a real house in Tijuana, Mexico,” Jernigan said. Even though the event was officially meant for the 50-million-square-foot Los Angeles area known as “the in! ion Begpless lut he Revor frustrated, your nhel gy Lets ytr confused, you tter way. PDF tech olo ou u e. be Send hem a affordabl ll show t rful and and we wi use, powe easy to should be etter. deserve b ause you - bec tion.com PDF Revu eamrevolu Bluebeam www.blueb med at Get infor A professional PDF solution for CAD. 16 www.cadalyst.com cadalyst April 2008 http://www.bluebeamrevolution.com http://www.bluebeamrevolution.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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