White paper describes how Autodesk Consulting joined with the USACE in its first attempt to model and analyze an existing military installation for the purpose of achieving “net zero” at all U.S. military installations..
Encouraging Sustainability: Use of LEED to Enhance Focus on SustainabilityDaniel Haddock
Describes the implementation of an initiative at American Water to obtain LEED certification for four new water treatment facilities in Indiana & Illinois. Discussion of the wider benefits of the initiative in terms of introducing concepts of sustainability to employees across the utility organization.
IDGA's Military Construction Summit 2010Alexa Deaton
Building the Foundation for Future Construction Initiatives
Why Military Construction?
Military Construction is THE emerging topic in the defense arena. This booming industry is seeing major procurement and acquisition movements on both a domestic and international level. The sheer number of domestic projects and the volume of overseas bases that are built every few weeks is staggering. Aside from the billions of dollars that circulate on a daily basis for this sector, the Stimulus Package has allotted additional funding to assist Base Realignment and Closure. The field is advancing quickly and staying abreast with changes is critical.
What will this event focus on?
This Summit will cover the nuts and bolts of the Military Construction industry by highlighting the latest advancements of building material and equipment.
The event will provide you with:
- An understanding of environmental standards all military buildings must meet
- A forecast of military construction projects and how they will help the military meet their goals
- Insight into cutting edge equipment and materials that will aid in the military construction process
Encouraging Sustainability: Use of LEED to Enhance Focus on SustainabilityDaniel Haddock
Describes the implementation of an initiative at American Water to obtain LEED certification for four new water treatment facilities in Indiana & Illinois. Discussion of the wider benefits of the initiative in terms of introducing concepts of sustainability to employees across the utility organization.
IDGA's Military Construction Summit 2010Alexa Deaton
Building the Foundation for Future Construction Initiatives
Why Military Construction?
Military Construction is THE emerging topic in the defense arena. This booming industry is seeing major procurement and acquisition movements on both a domestic and international level. The sheer number of domestic projects and the volume of overseas bases that are built every few weeks is staggering. Aside from the billions of dollars that circulate on a daily basis for this sector, the Stimulus Package has allotted additional funding to assist Base Realignment and Closure. The field is advancing quickly and staying abreast with changes is critical.
What will this event focus on?
This Summit will cover the nuts and bolts of the Military Construction industry by highlighting the latest advancements of building material and equipment.
The event will provide you with:
- An understanding of environmental standards all military buildings must meet
- A forecast of military construction projects and how they will help the military meet their goals
- Insight into cutting edge equipment and materials that will aid in the military construction process
Recent Jonathan Coles Studio commissions for private and commercial clients.
Light designs from a range of materials using new manufacturing techniques and construction methods.
This PPT presentation is intended to give an idea of the range of work I do -- from web banners and content to high-level white papers, case studies and interviews.
AIA 2013: Facts on the Ground: Testing the Performance of Ft. Carson's Green ...Shanti Pless
Our AIA 2013 Ft. Carson GSA High Performance Buildings Demonstration Results. Full site with Executive summary and full report at: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/195803
Recent Jonathan Coles Studio commissions for private and commercial clients.
Light designs from a range of materials using new manufacturing techniques and construction methods.
This PPT presentation is intended to give an idea of the range of work I do -- from web banners and content to high-level white papers, case studies and interviews.
AIA 2013: Facts on the Ground: Testing the Performance of Ft. Carson's Green ...Shanti Pless
Our AIA 2013 Ft. Carson GSA High Performance Buildings Demonstration Results. Full site with Executive summary and full report at: http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/195803
A presentation given to the Dayton ASCE Chapter on 4/21/11 regarding ASCE efforts in sustainability and the future of sustainability for civil and infrastructure engienering including the IgCC.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
1. AUTODESK® CONSULTING
Customer Case Study
The Customer: Army Corps of Engineers HIGHLIGHTS
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is composed of 39,000
Autodesk
dedicated civilians and soldiers delivering engineering services in more than
Consulting joined
90 countries worldwide. The USACE is responsible for building and with the USACE in
maintaining America’s infrastructure and providing military facilities wherever its first attempt to
U.S. service personnel train, work, and live. model and analyze
an existing military
In recent years, terrorist attacks, actions by hostile political regimes, and
installation for the
purpose of
other factors have underscored the grave danger of leaving U.S. military
achieving “net
installations dependent on outside suppliers for water, oil, gasoline and other zero” at all U.S.
resources a military unit requires to function. military
installations..
In 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13514, requiring that “all
Ecotect Analysis,
new Federal buildings, entering the design phase in 2020 or later, are
Revit Architecture,
designed to achieve zero net energy by 2030.” 3ds Max and
Project Vasari
To achieve “net zero” a building or installation must be able to generate the Implementation
services necessary to supply energy, water, and dispose of waste internally, were used to
without relying on outside resources or services.
deconstruct,
analyze, and
model energy
As Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations,
usage and
Energy & Environment, explained: savings.
“Addressing energy security and sustainability is operationally necessary, This process will
financially prudent, and essential to mission accomplishment…We are be applied to other
facilities as work
creating a culture that recognizes the value of sustainability measured not just
continues to make
in terms of financial benefits, but benefits to maintaining mission capability, all military
quality of life, relationships with local communities, and the preservation of installations self-
options for the Army's future.”* sustaining by
2030. .
* Hammack, K. (2010). Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army. Retrieved 12 15, 2010, from
http://www.asaie.army.mil/public/IE
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2. Case Study: United States Army Corps of Engineers AC AEC
The Project
In 2009, the USACE hired the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and
the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory to analyze the energy
footprints of five standard designs currently used for U.S. military buildings
and determine what changes could be made to reduce the buildings’ energy
usage.
The study focused specifically on passive design strategies, and reported
that, while it was possible to reduce the energy consumption of these facilities
by approximately 20-30%, achieving the mandated reductions of 65% and
higher at existing facilities was not possible.
In the autumn of 2010, the USACE began work to create a process for
renovating, retrofitting, and designing military installations that would use only
internally available resources and be completely self-sustaining or “net zero.”
The decision was made to select one existing installation, analyze its specific
site and climactic conditions, and develop an integrated design that could be
applied to infrastructure, water, and waste treatment/disposal at all U.S.
military installations.
In January of 2011, 16 Army installations were asked to apply to become the
first “net zero” site for energy, water, and waste by 2030. The installation
selected was Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
Developing a plan to make Fort Leonard Wood self-sustaining was more than
a challenge; it was an imperative. The cost of supplying Fort Leonard Wood
with power had risen 55% in the previous year. Now, the supplier was about
to disappear entirely.
The Challenges
The team was tasked with developing comprehensive, synergistic solutions
for providing water to the base, handling its waste and reducing energy
consumption. These solutions would also need to be transferable to other
installations. Achieving this required creating a digital, simulated model
baseline for a “net zero” installation.
The first step involved deconstructing the installation’s master plan, design,
and the orientation of its facilities. The base’s specific needs and problems
were analyzed in light of the new self-sustaining imperative, which meant
challenging deeply ingrained beliefs and conventions. The orientation of
buildings, the placement of windows, building systems, and many other
factors had to be studied simultaneously to assess the feasibility of the
changes proposed.
The 26-person project team was highly diverse, multidisciplinary, and located
around the globe. The program sought to elicit conceptual thinking and
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3. Case Study: United States Army Corps of Engineers AC AEC
innovative solutions, and only employees who had been employed by USACE
for two years of les were selected for the team. The budget for the entire
project had been pared to the point where crucial analyses could be
conducted on only a small sample of the installation’s buildings.
The Solution
The program employed an iterative design process, and was completed in a
short time in a predominantly virtual environment.
The programs used in this project were Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis,
Autodesk® Revit® Architecture, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk ® Project
Vasari Implementation.
Ecotect was used to determine the best orientation for buildings, the amount
of direct solar radiation available to the site, and whether available wind
power was a viable source of renewable energy. It generated and critical
performance data regarding shading, solar path, insulation, radiation, and
glazing that was used to weigh and prioritize proposed options.
Vasari & Revit Architecture’s Conceptual Energy Analysis (CEA) functionality,
used in conjunction with the Green Building Studio (GBS) web service,
allowed building information to be restacked and rearranged to produce
simulated design alternatives, which were then compared to find the most
energy-efficient results.
3DS Max produced qualitative and quantitative data about natural lighting.
Throughout the four-month project, Autodesk Customer Success Manager,
Mike Juros, an architect and Senior Technical Specialist, provided online “train
the trainer” coaching and phone support to USACE Architect and Technical
Designer, Jennifer Ramirez, USACE for Vasari, Revit , and GBS.
AC provided the team with whitepapers, videos and guides to help facilitate
learning before formal training was mobilized. Key Architects and Engineers
from the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) received
special training.
ELA provided design and analysis software and ensured accessibility and
consistent performance.
The benefits of involving key stakeholders from the start became increasingly
clear as the project progressed. Engineers, local contractors, and the
construction manager were part of the team from the schematic design
phase.
During the process, many factors came to light. For example, it was
discovered that when soldiers’ barracks are empty, the lack of body heat
increases the disparity between the side of the building in the sun and the
side in shadow which, in turn, creates a lop-sided cooling/heating demand
that puts additional strain on the HVAC system. This knowledge led to a
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