Tag: tips and tricks
May we find you a Bargain
Sometimes the price isn’t always right… So what do we do? Well first we need to look at scope, can we shrink the project? This will always make the largest dent in reducing the construction budget. Next, we look at the finishes. For one of our current projects, we tasked our Interior Designer Hillary Hayne…
What we love…NOT! Estimated Cost of Construction…
Let’s be honest. When we first entered this wonderful profession called architecture we were not thinking “Wohoo! Excel spread sheets for days!”. The numbers were not the exciting part (and not really highlighted in our schooling), but estimated costs of construction are important for every project we do. We need to know upfront what a…
Things we Love: Figuring out As-Builts!
YAY! As-builts, I love them.. said no one ever! But in the architecture world you will find yourself coming across them pretty often. What does make us happy, from as-builts, is when we figure things out or make sense of them. We will give you an example below of how this week we did something we…
The Great OFFICE PURGE! Material samples beware…
January is the time for new year’s resolutions that never seem to last and ridiculous aspirations for organization that we never really seem to achieve, but we can at least start the year right… Here@Hayne we dedicated a full day to jump-start our new year with the great Office Purge. Here’s what we did :…
The HAYNE Way: As-Built Template
Hello everyone! So let’s talk about that thing that makes everyone a little bit uncomfortable.. As-built drawings! In our office we sometimes get projects that don’t have current drawing information or it is older which could mean it is not accurate and here@Hayne we like accurate! Since we don’t have much information, such as room…
REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 6 – Typical Doors & Windows
Continuing on our REVIT template journey, we are going to look at loading some typical door and window families. Although the standard REVIT door and window families aren’t horrible, they don’t offer the level of flexibility I like when jumping into REVIT. They are one of the first families I always load, so why not…
REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 5 – Typical Walls, Roofs, Floors and Ceilings
We’re baaaaaaaaaaccccccccckkkkkkkk!! After a brief hiatus, when our office was on project deadline overload, we are going to continue setting up our Revit Project Template. The bare bones of the project template is complete, and has been utilized for a new project we are working on in Toluca Lake (stay tuned). As expected there were…
REVIT Best Practices: Setting up a Project Template Part 4 – Schedules
One of REVITs most powerful functions is its ability to embed a lot of information into your model and schedule it. What are the appliances? How many interior doors are there? What is the floor finish in the Entry? There are certain schedules that we always use in our projects. To start setting up the…
REVIT Best Practices – Setting up a Project Template Part 3 – Titleblocks & Browser Organization
After a brief hiatus (thanks flu…) we are back working on our REVIT project Template. Last time, we uploaded our standard symbols and tags. This week we are going to upload our typical titleblocks and edit the browser organization. Because we have been using REVIT for a while, we have a few (to say the…
REVIT Best Practices – Setting up a Project Template Part 2 – Annotation Text & Symbols
Well, we’ve done it… We finally started our Revit Project Template after years of procrastination! Last week we looked at line types and line weights. This week we are going to revise the standard annotation text (NO ARIAL) and get rif of all of those standard REVIT symbols (let’s face it, they are way to…