t's the first episode where Greg, Joe and Willis are actually together in the same room! We give you some tips that we think can help in your day to day work in the Architecture industry from shortcuts in your computer environment through to plugins for Revit and Excel spreadsheets to help calculate stairs.

Windows Aero snapping

BetterTouchTool

Windows 10

Das keyboard

Revit plugins

Xrev

It's

an episode with a special guest this week on The Architech Show. Adam Sheather

is a founding committee member of RTC Asia and is currently working in Malaysia

as the company BIM Manager for YTL Corporation. Adam heavily involved in the

Revit community and is has been acknowledged as on of the Top 10 speakers at

RTC for the last few years. We speak to him about RTC, the BIM space in a

rapidly growing region such as Asia and being an all-round nice guy.

Singapore mandates BIM

e-submissions

RTC Asia 2015

Adam Sheather on LinkedIn

The quest for interconnected buildings where services such as the fire systems, lifts and security systems all 'talk' to each other can be a doubled edged sword. Jeep recalled 1.4 millions cars this week after it was proven that the car could be remotely hacked via the infotainment system. Are there some components of a building that should be left as 'dumb'? What is truly safe in cybersafe anymore?

Ikea Hackers

Lifehacker

Hackers remotely kill Jeep

Stuxnet

Mission Impossible 3

Hackers: the Internet's

immune system

All your devices can be

hacked

Reports that NSA tapped into

Google and Yahoo data hubs

Last Week Tonight: Edward Snowden interview

Can you believe it's been 21 episodes and we haven't discussed BIM in any type of detail until now? Worry no more because that is exactly what we discuss in this week's episode. What is BIM? Why is BIM useful? What benefits does BIM bring to the game? I'm in a small practice, I don't think BIM is for us are all the questions we attempt to answer in this hot topic in the AEC space.What is BIM?Revit Technology Conference (RTC)BrisBIMMelBIMSydBIMArchiCADAutodesk RevitBentleyAEC CAD & BIM Standards Site (UK)

Lighting is quite important for a fit out and depending on the brief and desired outcomes, will depend on the quality of lighting used. This episode Greg explains the importance of lighting in a fit out but also the shift to LED lighting for cost effectiveness and sustainability. We also briefly mention how cool the mantis shrimp is... That's a whole episode on its own!

Silk LED bulb

Circadian rhythm

How to grow plants in

artifical light

Redeveloped Tube stations to

go all LED

Lighting for Living Walls

Konami Code

Chlorophyll

Aerochrome film

Infrared photography

Mantis shrimp

One-inch punch

A robot kills a worker in a automobile plant, Elon Musks invests in preventing killer AI and a movie about robots rising to kill humanity is released this week. Is this a mere co-incidence? We ask the questions about killer AI, movies that portray AI in a particular stereotype and Greg gets a new radio call-sign!

A.I.

Facebook's AI robot can

generate images

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Terminator Genisys

Wall-E

Bicentennial Man

Stephen Hawking

Elon Musk Do Investment $10

million to prevent killer AI

Robot kills worker at

Volkswagen plant in Germany

US to allow sale of armed

drones to some allies

Macross Plus

Her

Quantum computer error

An article of interest submitted by one of our friends and listeners suggested that 40% of jobs could go in the next 10 to 15 years but Architects are safe. We discuss this and also if it is indeed possible to automate an architect's role in the design process along with the various advancements in Artificial Intelligence including an AI that learns to play Mario games.

40% of jobs could go, but

architects are safe

Artificial Neural Networks

Can Day Dream–Here's What They See

MarI/O AI Program Learns To

Play 'Super Mario World'

Now watch this learning AI

attempting to master Mario Kart

Planarian regeneration model

discovered by AI algorithm

3D printing was the topic of our very first episode and it was briefly covered in how it could be used in an architectural practice. This week we discuss what's been happening in the realm of 3D printing of late, some potential game changer technology and how close we are to realising the 'Two Weeks' mask of Total Recall.

Bailey Bridge

Stunningly realistic, full

color 3D prints made possible by Fraunhofer Researchers

Researchers say Earth is

entering a sixth mass extinction event

3D-printed rocket parts stand

up to the heat in NASA hot-fire tests

Researchers create world's

first 3D-printed jet engines

3D-printed objects created

entirely from wood cellulose

3D-printed flutes hit the

right notes

ESA successfully tests 3D

printed thruster

CSIRO's Lab 22: Kickstarting

a 3D printing revolution in titanium

3D printing breakthrough

creates tiny metal structures

3D-printed materials that

change texture on demand

MX3D gets go-ahead for

3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam

It's been a big week in technology news in the past week so we thought we'd bring you up to speed about what was announced what this could mean in the architectural space.

Samsung transparent OLED

panels

Tunable Windows Opaque

Mercedes panoramic roof

Grand Design - Sugar Cube

house

Oculus Rift

Oculus Touch

NASA - Dataset and Images

Stanford engineers develop

state-by-state plan to convert US to 100% clean, renewable energy by 2050

Yawning

This week at the Movies, your critics Joe, Greg and Willis discuss the role of architecture at the movies. Not movies about architects or movies starring architects but movies in which architecture plays an important part of the story telling!

Mon ocle

Metropolis

Neon Genesis Evangelion

James Bond villain lairs

The Fifth Element

Hashima Island - Skyfall

Architecture in Star Wars

Inglourious Basterds

Blade Runner

2001: A Space Odyssey

The Matrix

Ghost in the Shell

The Rock

Lethal Weapon 2

Aeon Flux