The Podcast Roundup – Episode 090 – Sept. 22nd – Sept. 28th, 2019.

The BIMsider’s favourite Podcasts, Vodcasts and Videos from the world of AEC and BIM – for the week of Sept. 22nd – Sept. 28th, 2019.

I’m going to start this week’s Podcast roundup off with a video for the MEP folks out there from the Sean Fruin YouTube Channel.

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2) Podcast – From The Art of Construction Podcast

AOC Show 159: A Dedicated Approach to R&D and Office Management

Summary from the Podcast website:

“Ellen Bensky and Steve Nonis, CEO, CFO and Principals at Turner Fleischer Architects, and Matt McMullen, Associate Principal at Abel Design Group, join us on this episode 159 of Art of Construction.”

3) Podcast – From the AEM Thinking Forward Podcast

EP. 22 – FORD FUTURIST SHERYL CONNELLY: 7 TRENDS RESHAPING BUSINESS IN 2020 AND BEYOND

Summary from the Podcast website:

“As AEM celebrates its 125th anniversary this year, we celebrate the rich history of an industry that’s never stopped evolving. But, with the guidance of one of the world’s most well-known experts in future trends and technology, we also look to the next 125 years and what the future holds for equipment manufacturers.

Sheryl Connelly holds the title of Chief Futurist at the Ford Motor Company and publishes the Annual “Looking Further with Ford” trends report. For more than 20 years, she’s been tasked with helping company executives prepare for what’s on the third horizon. In this episode, she talks about the importance of applying a futurist mindset to the heavy equipment industry and seven trends that are reshaping the business world on a global scale.”

4) Podcast – From The IoT Podcast

Episode 235: How Amazon is defining the smart home

Summary from the Podcast website:

“This week’s show covers the big Amazon announcements in the guest segment, but first Kevin and I focus on the retailer’s smaller announcements around its new show and tell feature and voice interoperability efforts. Kevin has thoughts about cameras in the home. We also talk about Google changing how it handles voice recordings to help address user outrage while covering a study about the privacy challenges of other IoT devices. Then we dive into the geeky idea of merging Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN into a super IoT protocol, cover Zira’s industrial IoT software and figure out who might buy FitBit. We end by answering a question about smart bedside table lamps.”

5) Video – From the Revit Pure YouTube Channel.

13 Beginner Mistakes To Avoid In Revit

Summary from the YouTube Channel:

“Beginners often repeat the same mistakes over and over again in Revit. They are often caused by users that try to use Revit like if it was AutoCAD. This video will explore these mistakes and provide solutions to avoid them. Read the full blog post: https://revitpure.com/blog/13-beginne…”

6) Podcast – From The ConTechCrew Podcast

The ConTechCrew 188: It’s All About the Benjamins with Steve Jordan from Core Associates

Summary from the Podcast website:

“This week’s construction tech news with James Benham (@JamesMBenham), and Jeff Sample (@IronmanofIT)
Featuring:
– Interview with Steve Jordan from Core Associates (@Timberscan)
– Construction Tech News of the Week”

7) Podcast – From the Getting Simple Podcast

Andrew Witt — Letting Ideas Grow

Summary from the Podcast website:

“Harvard University’s Andrew Witt on the power of ruminating ideas, understanding complex problems, curating signals, geometric simplicity, introspective automation, and finding time for reflection.”

8) Podcast – From the Life of an Architect Podcast

034: Let’s Get Physical

Summary from the Podcast website:

“Architectural models are clearly within the architect’s domain but are you within the “physical models are better” or “digital models are better” camp? That’s the subject matter today as we discuss architectural models and their role in the creative process in a modern architectural office. We also have a guest on today’s podcast – Partner, Principal, and Owner at BOKA Powell (and technically speaking my new boss) Andrew Bennett. Andrew and I both went to The University of Texas in Austin for architecture school and our paths have crossed many times over the last 30 years.”

9) Video – From the Aussie BIM Guru YouTube Channel

Update Title block Parameters using Dynamo!

Summary from the YouTube Channel:

“Following on from the previous video where we set up scope boxes for dependent view sets, in this video we automatically set title block parameters such as a factor for scale bars as well as the key plan zone.”