In October, the fourth international conference of ARCHICAD users was held in the Concord Hall space in Moscow. The event attracted over 350 people and became the largest event in four years.
Event in numbers
The audience:
- Architects and BIM Managers - 44%
- Designers - 12%
- Related professionals: engineers and designers - 22%
- Teachers of universities and commercial educational institutions - 9%
- and other industry professionals
And:
- 10 key partners of GRAPHISOFT
- 13 expert reports
- More 30 raffled valuable prizes from GRAPHISOFT
- 9,8 - average rating of the event from participants
- More 200 positive feedback
Special guests and experts spoke at the conference:
Sergey Kuznetsov, chief architect of Moscow
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Marina Korol, Deputy Chairman of buildingSMART (Russia)
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Alexandra Berucheva, BIM Manager, Mosgorexpertiza
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Traditionally, an important point of the program was the presentation of the new version of ARCHICAD, which was conducted by Kirill Kondratenkov, lead product manager of GRAPHISOFT (Russia). The specialist spoke about the main innovations and improvements in ARCHICAD 23.
A key place in the materials and reports of this year's conference was undoubtedly taken by the project of the Irina Viner-Usmanova Rhythmic Gymnastics Center, which became the main symbol of ARCHICAD 23, thereby confirming the high qualifications of Russian designers in the field of BIM-design.
The project manager Tatiana Loiko from the PRIDE bureau spoke about the intricacies of work on this grandiose sports facility and what challenges her team was able to meet.
Nikolay Gordyushin, head of the PRIDE design bureau, noted the importance of each of his employees. For five years, he has assembled a team of the best specialists in the industry. In his speech, Nikolay noted that he himself started working in ARCHICAD version 6.0, and now the bureau is using the latest version of the product, using the most modern BIM tools in work on projects. He spoke about some projects during his speech.
The practical part of the conference allowed the participants to get information about the possibilities of using ARCHICAD on the example of real projects.
- The following sections were selected this year:
- Public buildings
- Residential complexes
- Low-rise construction
- Interiors
Practitioners demonstrated the best examples of using ARCHICAD and related solutions in their projects.
Completed the business part of the block of technology partners GRAPHISOFT. Representative of HEXAGON Artem Amochaev spoke about the important features of laser scanning technologies in the work of an architect, and Dmitry Serdyukov, specialist of a large BIM integrator PSS GRAYTEK, devoted his presentation to the application of the Solibri software solution to obtain the best models in the shortest possible time.
Andrey Naumov, Head of the Department of Expertise and Real Estate Management, BSTU named after V. G. Shukhova, noted that universities are one of the main target audiences for software vendors, because it is here that the basic knowledge and skills of future specialists are formed. As a practicing civil engineer, the speaker made a special emphasis in his report on his experience of using ARCHICAD to work with related sections.
GRAPHISOFT thanks all speakers, experts and listeners for an interesting and bright event and will be glad to see everyone again at the ARCHICAD BIM DAY-2020 conference!
You can download all the speakers' presentations and a full photo report, as well as watch video recordings of speeches and interviews on the conference website.
About GRAPHISOFT
GRAPHISOFT® revolutionized the BIM in 1984 with ARCHICAD®, the industry's first CAD BIM solution for architects. GRAPHISOFT continues to lead the architectural software market with innovative products such as BIMcloud ™, the world's first real-time collaborative BIM design solution, EcoDesigner ™, the world's first fully integrated energy modeling and energy efficiency assessments of buildings, and BIMx® is the leading mobile application for the demonstration and presentation of BIM models. Since 2007, GRAPHISOFT has been part of the Nemetschek Group.
