Envision™ is a sustainability rating system for the nation's
infrastructure. It is designed to evaluate, grade and give recognition
to infrastructure projects that make progress and contributions to a
more sustainable future. Its purpose is to foster a necessary and
dramatic improvement in the performance and resiliency of our physical
infrastructure across the full dimensions of sustainability: economic,
social and environmental. It is a comprehensive and workable rating
system that will help project owners, designers and constructors make
better management and investment decisions. Envision™ will help conserve
and restore natural resources and ecological systems as well as
strengthen the capacity and social fabric of our communities.
Earlier this month, national security scholar Patrick Doherty published a proposal in Foreign Policy magazine for America’s next “grand strategy,” a plan for how the U.S. should reposition itself in a world defined less by threats from communism or terrorism and more by the global challenge of sustainability. His offering is among a crop of such foreign policy tracts all aiming big ideas at the newly re-inaugurated president.
The strategic landscape of the
21st century has finally come into focus. The great global project is no longer
to stop communism, counter terrorists, or promote a superficial notion of
freedom. Rather, the world must accommodate 3 billion additional middle-class
aspirants in two short decades -- without provoking resource wars,
insurgencies, and the devastation of our planet's ecosystem. For this we need a
strategy.
That was an good class, I wish I hadn't missed it.
This class will show you how to manipulate and generate pipe parts lists
and networks to efficiently design complex pipe networks using
alignments, profiles, intersections, and pipes. You will see a 3-staged
approach to design and output for creating a custom pipe fittings
library, for generating multiple complex pipe networks and merging them
together into 1 interactive network, and then moving this data to
constructable plan sets. The class will contain instructions on how to
add structure fittings and blocks to the existing pipe catalog and then
assign styles to those fittings to represent the item graphically. We
move on with a basic layout using alignments, then produce a profile of
the center of our pipe. From this we will use intersections to tie the
branches of our network together and then extract the feature line to
create the pipe. Finally we will produce constructable documents using
this data with labeling and math.
Lets start with some Civil 3D Pipe Networks. Much of our Pipe Network modeling seems a little on the fly with not much of the way in terms of procedure. I'm going to stop that.
Happy New Year, indeed. This Sunday will mark the day when San Francisco finally catches up with the times and runs parking meters during business hours on Sundays, ending the nonsensical weekly tradition of allowing prime parking spots in front of shops to sit occupied for free while drivers circle endlessly around the block. The meters will run from 12 to 6 p.m., when demand for parking is
highest. That means turnover will be higher and fewer drivers be
distractedly searching for spots, wasting gas and adding to the noise,
air pollution, and danger on the streets.
I do like public participation in charettes and such like, it does lead to people thinking about the practical difficulties involved in trying to please everybody.
Tight spaces, multiple competing interests, limitedbudgets and all sorts of restrictions. Interesting.
