Archive for March, 2010

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Mark Reddington at the UW’s CBE

Last month, Mark Reddington, FAIA, discussed his work as a partner at LMN. Mark spoke in detail about Vancouver Convention Centre West – which served as the media center for the 2010 Winter Olympics – LMN’s history on the UW campus, building PACCAR Hall, home to the Foster School of Business, as well as the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. Mark stressed the collaborative aspects of LMN’s work: “Making places and making buildings in not simply an individual effort, but something we all do together…”

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TAS Ambiens Workflow

Though Ambiens is technically a piece of CFD software, it allows for rapid modeling (when you get used to its quirks) and very quick simulations (often less than 2 minutes). After playing with Ambiens for about an hour, you should be able to run relatively complex studies…which is a-typical of most airflow modeling software…so as quirky as the software is, the “bang for the buck” is fairly good.