Over the past period, we have been actively involved in the development of a generic design brief for Dutch school buildings, as part of a major innovation programme aimed at improving the quality of educational buildings in the Netherlands (in Dutch: Innovatieprogramma Onderwijshuisvesting (IPOHV). Together with...
We’ve launched a Revit add-in for BriefBuilder. The add-in is all about connecting the owner/client’s spatial program (as defined in BriefBuilder) with the design team’s BIM model (as captured in Revit). It helps ensure that design solutions align with client demands, throughout the design process. The...
Our head of R&D, Juriaan van Meel, was in Leuven (Belgium) to give a lecture for the post-grad course on real estate development of the KU Leuven. The topic was briefing and requirements management. Juriaan started his lecture with a heuristic from a recent paper by prof....
This week, we had the pleasure and honor of hosting a visit from a valued customer: Takenaka Corporation, Japan’s construction powerhouse. Together, we explored their innovative platform, Design Portal —a cloud solution that seamlessly integrates GIS data, architectural data, and MEP data into a flexible, highly...
We have released a new renewed diagramming feature which provides more controls for creating adjacency diagrams and interface diagrams. The renewed feature comes with more controls concerning shapes and colours, and with the possibility to save diagrams directly in model. It works a bit like powerpoint...
We are happy to announce that the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has selected BriefBuilder to support its briefing and architectural programming activities for the redevelopment of its campus! Over the next few years, all of NTNU's academic environments in Trondheim will be gathered...
Frankfurt Airport is one of Europe`s largest airports, and it's expanding even further. Currently, the airport is in the process of constructing a brand new Passenger Terminal (Terminal 3) and planning the refurbishment of the existing Terminal 2. Our partners at LOGO InfraConsult GmbH, are...
Requirements concerning a building’s technical systems can be quite complex. There are many of such systems—power systems, cooling systems, ventilation systems etc.—and few of these systems can be regarded as stand-alone systems. Many of them interface with others and their performance must be considered holistically....
Our co-founder Juriaan van Meel and NTNU's Kjersti Bjørkeng Størdal will soon publish the new edition of their briefing book, titled 'Construction Briefing: a Practical Guide'. The book is ready to be printed, but it will take some more weeks before it is ready for...