DesignGroup Case Study - Battelle Darby Creek Metro Parks Nature Center. Click image or link below to download

One of the exciting aspects of my role as the Director of BIM is being able to find innovative ways to leverage technology into our design processes. Recently this focus has been on merging our BIM expertise with the firm’s longstanding sustainability initiatives. This effort enabled me to contribute a case study on the topic for the recently published BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design by Francois Levy.

Click to download: DesignGroup Case Study – Battelle Darby Creek Metro Parks Nature Center (3MB)

BIM In Small-Scale Sustainable Design Book Cover. Image courtesy of François Lévy and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

I’m very excited to announce that the recently published BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design includes a case study that I authored on the Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center. Pages 177-182 demonstrate how our firm has implemented BIM into our sustainable design processes leveraging early energy modeling and daylighting analysis to optimize the project’s passive design strategies.

To learn more about the project, visit our Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center project pages:

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center Project Page

Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park Nature Center BIM page

To learn more about the book or order a copy, visit the Amazon Store

Geothermal Well Fields

It’s also where DesignGroup & Columbus City Schools presented the Alum Crest/Clearbrook School at the School & College Building Expo!

The School & College Building Expo is a “Conference for the People Who Design and Build Great Educational Facilities.”  DesignGroup and CCS not only wanted to attend the conference, but we were also selected to present at it as well.

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On Friday, February 10^th I will have the opportunity to present during the sixth session of the AIA+2030 Professional Series: Radical Energy Savings for Every Project, which is being hosted by The Columbus Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council – Central Ohio Chapter. The next session in this ten part series will focus on the illuminating savings that can be driven from daylighting and integrated lighting controls.

AIA+2030 - Session VI - Illuminating Savings: Daylighting and Integrating Lighting Strategies

My presentation of the afternoon is titled “Utilizing BIM for Daylight Simulation.” Highlighting the historical applications of daylighting methodologies in project design, I will show an evolution of how technology is increasing our capability to more fully optimize and quantify our design decisions to determine the most effective approach to daylighting. In addition, I will present a series of project case studies that demonstrate how a BIM enabled workflow can provide these outcomes, concluding in a review of the recent “DesignGroup’s Office as a Living Lab” project that Brandon Pence and I collaborated on.

For more information on the AIA+2030 Professional Series click here

Exterior Progress

Marching swiftly towards an early July completion, the Health Sciences Center at Cedarville University is taking shape nicely.  The lion’s share of exterior envelope has been completed, allowing contractors to focus their efforts on the interior spaces that the Pharmacy & Nursing Departments will call home.

1st Floor Collaboration Rooms

Drywall has been taped & mudded…painting is underway…simulated I.C.U. headwalls are being built…all in preparation for a rapidly-approaching opening in the Fall of this year. The future of healthcare education is nigh.

For a live construction webcam, click here.