Keltech On-Demand, Tankless Water Heater Product Line, a subsidiary of Bradley Corporation has begun the release of the Keltech Tankless Water Heater Revit Library.

The Keltech Revit Library includes these Keltech models:

• Keltech SN Series Product Page

Keltech Point-of-Use Water Heaters product pages are also located on the Bradley product site.

Use the Keltech Tankless Water Heater Guide to select the water heater models that meet your projects’ design requirements.

Specify and connect a Keltech tankless water with a Bradley Emergency Fixture Product.

View and Download Bradley Emergency Fixture Revit Family Library.

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How to Load Keltech Revit Family Using A Revit Family Catalog

Some Revit Keltech tankless water heater families include a Revit family catalog file (*.txt). All of them have a Clearance Box object. (The Revit Clearance Box object is defined below)

Make sure the Revit Keltech Family Catalog file (*.txt) ALWAYS remains with and in the same folder as the Revit family.

Load the the Keltech Tankless Water Heater family from the Revit Ribbon:

• HOME Tab > Component

Next select Load Family Button in the upper right corner

When the Load Family file dialogue box pops up;

• Navigate to your Keltech Revit Family Folder > Select the Family > Select Open

The Keltech Revit Family Type Box will pop up; showing the Keltech models in the catalog.

You may need to slide the horizontal scroll bar (right/left) at the bottom of the dialog box, to see all the parameter columns for each Revit Type.

Select one or several Keltech models by holding down the CTRL Key and selecting the models (in the Type Column) you wish to load into your project.

If you accidentally select a model, that you don’t want to load; just hold down the CTRL Key and reselect.  Pick Open to begin the loading process into your project.

Revit Keltech Water Heater Clearance Box

Each Keltech Revit Family includes a clearance box, defined by a red, transparent solid  with dashed-line boundaries.

The Clearance Box serves several purposes:

1. The 3D clearance Box assists with  the design-construction BIM clash-interference detection and coordination.
2. It helps the designer to visually design the space, with adequate installation and maintenance clearances around for this equipment.

The Clearance Box has an [ON/OFF] visibility switch; which is located in the PROPERTIES dialog box  of the selected Keltech Revit Family.

The parameter is located under the Construction Header > as Clearance Space

It is an Instance-based parameter, that can be toggled ON/OFF for each unit.

Visibility of the clearance box will be displayed in the Plan, Front and Right Views.

The Keltech electric supply connector is located in the back of the unit and is “field drilled” at the time of installation.

Two parameters are installed in the Keltech Revit family models, to assist Construction VDC Managers; that are creating the facility as-built models.

1. Electrical Connector Top Inset
2. Electrical Connector Right Inset

These two parameters locate the final position of the field-drilled electrical connection hole on the back of the unit.

The position and sizing of a Keltech water heater model, is derived from the Top of the Heater; which serves as the datum for most of the dimensional parameters.

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• Download Revit Keltech On-Demand Tankless Water Heater Family Library

• Download Enclosed Safety Shower Revit Family | Clearance Box Sub-Category

• Bradley Revit Interference-Clearance Boxes Provide Installation-Maintenance Savings

Visit this Autodesk website to download the Revit 2014 Free Trial Version Software.

Revit 2014 software can be downloaded to your desktop and/or tested online through Autodesk 360.

Download the Autodesk 360 Online Trial Overview (PDF) document to setup your Autodesk 360 Account.

Revit 2014 New Feature Articles | Videos

Autodesk Revit 2014 New Features List and 30 Minute Video Review

Autodesk Revit 2014 System Requirements

Windows – Revit Server – Mac OS® X

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My BIM educational presentation — “How BIM Changes Everything” will be presented Tuesday May 7 2013 at the St Louis ASPE Chapter Meeting.

Mark Carnoali from McQueeny-Lock Company – St Louis (Bradley Rep Organization), is sponsoring the presentation.

ASPE – St Louis Chapter – Tuesday, May 7 2013 Meeting Agenda

• 11:30-12:00 Networking
• 12:00 pm ASPE Business & Lunch
• 12:15 – 1:00 Daniel Hughes – Bradley Corporation BIM Presentation
• 2:00 pm Meeting Adjourned

<<< Reservations Are Required >>>

Reservation by Email: Email Reservation Link | Subject Line: ASPE Meeting

Reservation by Phone: Must be called into 314-631-4400

Location: Engineers’ Club

Lunch Cost:

• $18.00 for Members
• $25.00 for Non-Members
• Cash or Check Only-No Credit Cards

Cancellation Policy: You may cancel up to noon on Monday before the meeting. If not canceled by this point you will be responsible for the meet­ing cost listed above.

Meeting Sponsor

Bradley Sales Rep Organization

McQueeny-Lock Company

Mr. Mark Carnoali

155 Weldon Parkway, Suite 118
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
314-569-3025

Related Article

• Daniel Hughes Representing ASPE on National BIM Standards

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Bradley Corporation is the sole sponsor for a unique learning event at the 2013 AIA Wisconsin Convention.

The AIA Wisconsin Convention Committee worked with the AIA Wisconsin Emerging Professionals Committee to bring a special program to the 2013 AIA Wisconsin Convention.

This Emerging Professional Activity, titled “ADA Compliance Checklist,” requires Architectural Interns to create an ADA Compliance checklist to address ADA design issues in their current and future projects. (Activity details are available online, page 111)

Emerging Professionals Companion (EPC) Activity:

ADA Compliance Checklist scheduled from 11:30 am – 3:00 pm on Wednesday, May 8th, in conjunction with the 2013 AIA Wisconsin Convention.

The program will be moderated by Andy Malanowski, AIA, | Eppstein Uhen Architects, Inc. – Milwaukee.

AIAW committee has been recruiting additional architects to assist in the seminar room to answer questions and offer suggestions as interns investigate ADA requirements. We are encouraging these mentors to use case studies to illustrate solutions for ADA design issues.

Dale Gallman, Bradley Corporation Codes Compliance Manager will be assisting attendees throughout Andy’s class presentation.

Visit Bradley Corporation Booth #47

| AIA Wisconsin Gold Sponsor |

2013 Exhibit Hall Show Hours
Wednesday, May 8, 3:00-7:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 9, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.

Ask about the Free 4GB Flash Drives with 1,000 Bradley Revit Families for BIM Managers

Related AIA Learning Articles

• UWM School of Architecture Revit Classes by Bradley and Miron Construction
• Bradley Expands AIA-CES Courses-Webinars: BIM | Sustainable | Accessible Design
• Bradley Sponsors UWM School of Architecture and Urban Design Competition

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The St Louis Revit Users Group (STLRUG) Steering Committee has a pre-launch networking happy hour event on Friday evening May 10th, 2013.

The event will be held at the Rooftop Terrace Bar at the Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop from 5:30-7:00 pm.

The Happy Hour networking event will also include a tour of the newly opened Moon Room at the Rooftop Terrace Bar. The tour starts at 6:00pm

Download STLRUG Happy Hour Flyer | YAF Moon Room Tour

The tour will be conducted by the architect and engineer who worked on the project, as well as some Hotel staff. We will also be joined by the St. Louis Young Architects Forum Group for the tour and our networking event!!

RSVP Requested

You can see more details and RSVP for the event here:  http://stlrugprelaunchhappyhour.splashthat.com

My thanks to Mr Chris Link, Associate & Manager of BIM Services (Kuhlmann design Group Inc) for sharing the event info during our visit today.

My Bradley BIM educational presentation — “How BIM Changes Everything” will be presented Tuesday May 14 2013 at the ASPE – Atlanta Chapter Meeting.

Ryan Barnes from Harry Warren – Georgia [Atlanta Office] (Bradley Rep Organization), is sponsoring the Bradley BIM presentation.

Meeting Time

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Meeting Location

Villa Christina Restaurant | 678-686-4272
4000 Summit Blvd | Atlanta, Georgia 30319

Attire: Business Casual | RSVP: Tuesday, May 14, 2013

> Register / RSVP for May 2013 ASPE Dinner Meeting <

ASPE Meeting Sponsor| Bradley Sales Rep Organization

Harry Warren of Georgia

Harry Warren | Georgia Rep Contact Map

 Harry Warren of Georgia, LLC | Atlanta Office
2861 Bankers Industrial Dr., Suite B | Doraville, GA 30360
Phone  770.368.0511 |  http://www.harrywarren.com

Related Article

• Daniel Hughes Representing ASPE on National BIM Standards

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New York City Department of Buildings Approves First 3-D BIM Site Safety Plans

Turner Construction released their ground-breaking BIM Site Safety article in May 2012.

Turner Construction Company Received Approval for Building Information Model (BIM)-based Site Safety Plans

3D BIM Site Safety Plans Enable Building Inspectors to Take Virtual Tours of Construction Projects and Review them in Real Time on the Construction Site. Continue Reading >>

In August 2012, Turner Construction, provided a BIM Design-Build Healthcare Success Case Study for the Fort Benning Hospital at our DBIA – Federal Sector Conference in Washington DC.

The Turner Construction case-study, shared how they used the hospital BIM model to provide a dramatically safer construction process for their workers.  In addition, the revised process increased the Turner Construction worker’s output twelve-fold; thereby improving the construction schedule.

Description of Improved Construction Process:

The BIM process has enabled the sub contractors to leverage the geographically-positioned (GPS) BIM-enabled modeling. Our teams collect point locations from the coordinated BIM model (In the Office) for layout in the field.

An excellent example of this time saving, safer, and efficient capacity is installing 100,000+ hanger inserts in metal deck before concrete is placed.

This traditionally is done from the underside after the concrete is placed, using a ladder (Less safe), drilling up into the underside of concrete. One worker could install approximately 20 holes a day.

The GPS \ BIM-enabled process, empowers a crew of 3 workers to install (From top of metal deck and walking with no ladder needed– Safer) to install 750 hanger inserts\day.

Installation is much faster and safer – Simply walk to the location and screw in the threaded rods for pipe hanger racks, cable tray, electrical conduit racks, etc.

My \ Our thanks to Jeff Bauer, VDC\BIM Manager – Turner Construction for providing images & editorial review.

Every Revit family is assigned a specific category; based on the Revit Family Template that was originally used to create the Revit family.

The Power of a Revit Family’s Category Designation;

1. controls the family’s visibility in each view; using the View Visibility (VV) Settings.
2. defines the Revit Tag that can be used for tagging the family
3. determines the Revit Schedule Type that will list & schedule the Revit family

When your Revit family…

1. doesn’t respond to turning on/off its visibility in the view…
2. can’t be tagged with it’s appropriate category tag…
3. doesn’t show up in its designated Revit Schedule…

…You need to review and revise that family’s Category Designation.

Simple Steps to Change a Revit Family Category Designation

Open the Revit Family in the Revit Family Editor.

In the upper left corner of the Revit Ribbon, select the Family Category and Parameters icon.

In this example, a Washroom Accessory Revit Family has a Furniture Category designation.

This is why the Revit Family –

1. visibility is not controllable under Specialty Equipment Category visibility setting.
2. can’t be tagged with a Specialty Equipment Tag.
3. is not listed in the Revit Specialty Equipment Schedule.

While this dialog box is open; let’s change its category to Specialty Equipment.

Press OK — and SAVE the Revit Family.

Final Step — Load / Re-Load the Revit Family into the project.

Typically, most experienced Revit / BIM Managers will test these settings prior to releasing a Revit family into their company and project standards.

However, “things happen” — and this is a quick edit to update the Revit Family.

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Join Bradley BIM at The Reference Library in Phoenix Arizona –

The Bradley BIM educational presentation — “How BIM Changes Everything” will be presented–

Wednesday June 19 2013 at The Reference Library in Phoenix Arizona at 12:00\Noon

John Lee, from PIR Sales Inc  (Bradley Sales Rep Organization), is sponsoring the Bradley BIM presentation.

Make your reservations now with our host, Louise Rehse, CSI from The Reference Library — “Seating is Limited”.

The Reference Library | Celebrating 25 Years of Service
99 E. Virginia Ave., #140
Phoenix, AZ  85004
Phone: 602-258-7499
www.thereferencelibrary.com
Hours:  Monday-Thursday, 7am-5pm and until noon on Friday

The Bradley BIM Initiative will be featured in the Bradley Corporation booth at the AIA 2013 National Convention in Denver Colorado.   Visit the Bradley AIA Booth #951

AIA Expo 2013 Hours
Thursday, June 20      10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Friday, June 21           10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Saturday, June 22       10 a.m.–2 p.m.

View AIA Floor Plan Map | Bradley Booth 951

Search Exhibitor Locations

Bradley BIM | Bradley Corporation is a proud sponsor for the 2013 Central States Revit Workshop being held on Thursday\Friday August 15-16 2013 in Omaha Nebraska.

Here are the Revit Workshop Session Listings, Descriptions, Agenda and Schedule.

Use this Revit Workshop page to make hotel arrangements near the Scott Conference Center in Aksarben Village.

Revit Workshop Sessions have almost 2 dozen speakers for these sessions:

• BIM /Construction
• Architecture/General
• Interiors
• Mechanical/ Plumbing/ Electrical
• Structural

>>> The conference is focused on Intermediate and Advanced Revit Users <<<

Special Guest BIM Speakers

Special Guest BIM Speakers for BIM for Owners include:

1. Chuck Miles | Autodesk | Business Development Manager
2. Andy Jizba | Mayo Clinic | BIM Program Director
3. Birgitta Foster | buildingSMART alliance | Assisting Director

Special Guest Speakers

1. Paul Aubin | Author | Independent Architectural Consultant
2. Steve Stafford | Blog Author – Revit OpEd | Revit Consultant
3. Brian Mackey | BD Mackey Consulting
4. Dezi Mackey | Martin/Martin & BD Mackey Consulting

2013 CSRW REGISTRATION OPEN

• Early Registration – $200 for the first 50 people.
• Regular Registration – $250
• Registration ends July 26th

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Asbuilts and Inspections: How can you expedite and accurately determine the structural point loads of existing, rooftop process piping on a roof?

Excel Engineering (Fond du Lac, WI) answered this question; using a combination of 3D high definition laser scanning, structural analysis and Autodesk Revit software.

Using a high definition laser scanner, Excel’s 3D Scanning/Survey Department collected several 3D scans of the roof; from 3 locations along the perimeter of the roof –over 2 days.

While onsite, the survey engineers, could quickly download and review the 3D laser scan point cloud on the 3D scanner. Thereby, validating quality prior to leaving the project site.

In the office, they converted portions of the point cloud into solid pipes; around the roof areas for structural point-load analysis.

Excel’s Structural Engineering Department created a basic Revit footprint of the manufacturing facility; modeling the exterior walls and the structural column layout.

The point cloud and the converted 3D piping files were loaded / linked individually into the Revit facility model. Structural engineers could easily coordinate the review and analysis of the roof’s structural integrity; that was supporting the process piping.

The benefits of using 3D laser scanning and a hybrid Revit BIM process;

1. avoided the outdated, costly, time-consuming manual field measurement and documentation process.
2. delivered a 3D point cloud and converted 3D piping files; that were loaded and aligned into into the Revit facility model.
3. delivered a highly coordinated, very reliable as-built model in a fraction of  time — providing the client with significant savings.
4. significantly reduced the time required by the structural engineers to analyze  the project; which also eliminated all the typical travel costs.

How does 3D laser scanning work?

Here’s a short video from Excel Engineering.

Bradley’s Revit Keltech Tankless Water Heater families are available for download in the Autodesk Seek Manufacturer’s Revit Library – Keltech.

Revit Keltech Tankless Water families can be downloaded from the Bradley Revit Family Library - Bradley – Keltech Revit Library.

Similar Keltech Tankless Water Heater Revit Family Articles:

• Download Revit Keltech On-Demand Tankless Water Heater Family Library

• Keltech Tankless Water Heater Features Revit Family Type Catalog | Clearance Box

Check out this free online Autodesk Construction Magazine – Build With Confidence.

View the Magazine with this link:

• http://www.viewstream-media.com/construction-digital-magazine/04/

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The 2013 AIA National Convention and Expo featured a large Technology Pavilion with more than 40 technology vendors.

My visit with the Bentley Software Manager at the Denver AIA Convention; confirmed the details of Bentley’s upcoming support of the Revit Family RFA file format.

Bentley announced their upcoming  “Content Strategy” on May 24 2013, including the RFA Interpreter for Revit Component Families.

View Complete Article: Bentley Content Strategy | RFA Interpreter

Bentley Content Strategy will provide Bentley building product content creation & management tools and native Revit Component Family content support.

1. Bentley | Creating Content (Parametric Content Modeler)
2. Bentley | Content Repository and Management (Content Management Service)
3. Revit | Utilizing Existing Manufacturers’ Content (RFA Interpreter)

The RFA Interpreter Summary, defines what it WILL do and what it WILL NOT do.

RFA Interpreter in the AECOsim Building Designer WILL:

• Support RFA content versions 2009-2014
• Access and select the types defined within the RFA
• Retain its native parametric behaviors and properties, which will be exercisable in AECOsim Building Designer (such as lengths and angles)
• Retain its business properties (Such as manufacturer, catalog number, and fire rating)
• Retain its perforator, to allow content to cut openings (such as doors and windows)
• Retain its mechanical & plumbing connection points (for air handlers, plumbing fixtures, etc.)
• Retain its 2D plan and elevation symbols
• Register itself with the DataGroup Catalog, mapping its business and parametric properties to counterparts in AECOsim Building Designer
• Map RFA attributes to ABD symbology and/or Part & Family
• Behave like a native ABD element (similar to BXF or PAZ)

The RFA Interpreter in AECOsim Building Designer WILL NOT support:

• Revit system types (walls, curtain wall, stairs, etc..)
• 2D only RFAs (title blocks tags, profiles, etc..)
• Embedded formats (DWG, SKP, etc. placed inside the RFA)
• Changing the original RFA definition

The article further describes the RFA Wizard for importing content into a Bentley format

View Complete Article: Bentley Content Strategy | RFA Interpreter

It mentions “We expect to begin Beta Testing of this exciting new addition to AECOsim Building Designer in July 2013 and “NO”, it does not require a copy of Revit or a specialized cloud service to use the RFA Interpreter. Stay tuned for more details!!”

The Bentley Software Manager also referenced a late 2013 release date — perhaps November-December 2013 roll-out with Bentley’s next version release.

Related Bentley Microstation Article:

Free Bentley MicroStation i-model Plug-in for Autodesk Revit

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Subscribe to View Journal for Building Information Modeling | June 2013 Edition

Our first 2013 edition highlights include:

• “Design Through As-Built: BIM Coordination on a Design/Build Project”
• “Using Objectified Measures to Realize the Promise of BIM”
• “A Holistic, Integrated BIM Vision: Functional Modeling as the Key”
• “The Business Value of BIM in North America”
• “Civil Information Modeling: Become Acquainted”
• “Site for Sore Eyes”
• “MMC Symposium Tackles Mitigation Planning, Strategies”

Register for this FREE subscription;  to view the 36-page JBIM 2013 Spring Edition.

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Greetings & Welcome to the Bradley Revit – BIM Resource Portal

The Bradley Revit-BIM Family Library has more than 1,000 Revit Family Models; representing 10′s of thousands of Bradley Corporation’s Plumbing Fixtures and Specialty Equipment products.

I encourage BIM and VDC Managers to visit the Bradley BIM FAQs Page.  It provides an overview of Bradley’s Revit modeling standards and quality assurance procedures.

Daniel Hughes | Bradley Corporate BIM Strategist

New York City Department of Buildings Approves First 3-D BIM Site Safety Plans

Turner Construction released their ground-breaking BIM Site Safety article in May 2012.

Turner Construction Company Received Approval for Building Information Model (BIM)-based Site Safety Plans

3D BIM Site Safety Plans Enable Building Inspectors to Take Virtual Tours of Construction Projects and Review them in Real Time on the Construction Site. Continue Reading >>

In August 2012, Turner Construction, provided a BIM Design-Build Healthcare Success Case Study for the Fort Benning Hospital at our DBIA – Federal Sector Conference in Washington DC.

The Turner Construction case-study, shared how they used the hospital BIM model to provide a dramatically safer construction process for their workers.  In addition, the revised process increased the Turner Construction worker’s output twelve-fold; thereby improving the construction schedule.

Description of Improved Construction Process:

The BIM process has enabled the sub contractors to leverage the geographically-positioned (GPS) BIM-enabled modeling. Our teams collect point locations from the coordinated BIM model (In the Office) for layout in the field.

An excellent example of this time saving, safer, and efficient capacity is installing 100,000+ hanger inserts in metal deck before concrete is placed.

This traditionally is done from the underside after the concrete is placed, using a ladder (Less safe), drilling up into the underside of concrete. One worker could install approximately 20 holes a day.

The GPS \ BIM-enabled process, empowers a crew of 3 workers to install (From top of metal deck and walking with no ladder needed– Safer) to install 750 hanger inserts\day.

Installation is much faster and safer – Simply walk to the location and screw in the threaded rods for pipe hanger racks, cable tray, electrical conduit racks, etc.

My \ Our thanks to Jeff Bauer, VDC\BIM Manager – Turner Construction for providing images & editorial review.

Download These Excel & PDF tables to add OmniClass Titles and Number values to your Revit Family Product Models. Here are several links:

HOMEPAGE | view and Download Table 23|PRODUCTS from omniclass.org

TABLES  | View and Download Table 23 | PRODUCTS from omniclass.org

The OmniClass Construction Classification System (known as OmniClass™ or OCCS) is a classification system for the construction industry. OmniClass is useful for many applications, from organizing library materials, product literature, and project information, to providing a classification structure for electronic databases.

ABOUT | View and Download Table 23 | PRODUCTS from omniclass.org

The Bradley Revit Library (1,000 Families) embeds the Omniclass Title and Number values into each Bradley Revit Family. Omniclass parameters are stored in the TYPE Parameters and viewed from Revit Property dialog box. (below)

In addition, Bradley typically includes the Uniformat Assembly Code and MasterFormat Title and Numbers in every Bradley Revit Family.

This CSI Chapter Presentation –  OmniClass, CSI Formats, and Their Role in BIM will provide you additional information on this parameter.