building performance quiz
Finally it is launched!!
There have been a lot of long nights of faffing about with learning about the technology that runs the internet, But now the building performance quiz is live, working reasonably well in most browsers, and has started producing results!
So “what is it?” I hear you ask!
There are a couple of reasons that I can’t tell you everything about it just yet. But for now it is a quiz that shows up what you know and don’t know about designing for building performance within the emerging low carbon economy.
The key thing is that a lot of people have a go at the quiz, so if you have a screen, and some time, then please do it, and if you have all of the above, and friends, then send it to all of them and beg them to do it too. Please!!!
have a go!
Smart Geometry, TU Delft and Pirates
In November there was a Smart Geometry event at TU Delft. It was a really interesting event as it wasn’t platform specific, so people were hacking away on whatever they fancied (GC, Grasshopper, Processing, C#).
Rudi Stouffs (check out some of his work here) videoed some of the evening presentations.
There are some great talks in this bunch, Sam Joyce’s is particularly worth a go for a bit of a reflective view on structural engineering!
Mine is a dramatic speed up of the talk I gave at UTS last year. If you are interested, the slides are here.
Livescribe & Illustrator
I got a bit sleepy in a meeting the other day and I started drawing. It was one of those darkened room affairs with an impeding food coma, so i needed something to ease the pain.
tends towards zero carbon
There are a few things that I want you to hold in your mind for a second.
- In mathematical notation ? stands in for ‘tends to‘.
- In ‘optimisation‘ the focus is on the approach to optimum, and therefore a much better description is ‘improvement’.
Now on with the meat of this story.
Zombie copy – reanimated
Take a look at this article: Zombie Copy.
It is could have been written specifically for architects!
I particularly like the transformation of…
Every executive knows that constantly delivering superior customer value is an imperative to veritably creating shareholder value.
into…
If you want to make lots of money, you have to please your customers more than the other guy does.
So I suppose that the moral of the story is that; amongst the people who look at your work there are always going to be a few smart people out there that can read, they’ll notice if you use a thesaurus liberally throughout your writing. So save yourself the ridicule later, and write down what you actually mean, it’ll be quicker, and it might actually be interesting!