BIMstorm San Diego

Learning to Crawl with OPS

2009-06-13T10:55:00.000-07:00

The BIM Education Co-op created a "Learning to Crawl" presentation to help people get started on the ONUMA Planning System. It is not exactly right for San Diego, but it may help.

You can access it at:

http://www.slideshare.net/mbordenaro/learning-to-crawl-with-bim-presentation

Keep up the pioneering work!

Team Progress

2009-06-13T09:24:00.000-07:00

Team progress is posted here.

2009-06-13T07:32:00.000-07:00

Animation of webinar from 6/12/09 Afternoon posted here. Note that parts of it, the audio is silent.

What Will the Neighbors Say...

2009-06-13T05:16:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting proposal developed first in Revit and then imported into OPS using the plugin. Good job Allen!

Go here to see the scheme in OPS (requires OPS account)

Scheme: (S53_116) 03-BCG-Highrise

2009-06-12T15:58:00.000-07:00

Mike Bordenaro of BIM Education Co-op posted some slides with commentary from the webinar this morning.

Live Maps

2009-06-12T14:28:00.001-07:00

In addition to Google Earth you can find aerial photo info at Live Maps, click image to launch Live Maps.

2009-06-12T14:16:00.001-07:00

BIMStorm San Diego start up webinar 6/12/09 morning session posted here.

San Diego Planning - General Reference Materials

2009-06-12T12:59:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this new folder created in our San Diego BIMstorm SkyDrive.

General Reference Material

I received these great reference materials from Alex Esquibel - he attached them to my Scheme in OPS. If you have an OPS account, you can also click on these links to see the original scheme he attached these files to.

San Diego Civic Center - Consolidated Facility

Click here to see the attachments in the OPS Reporter for this Scheme

San Diego Civic Center - Consolidated Facility REPORTS

Thanks for the great info Alex!

BIMStorm June 12-13 Schedule

2009-06-12T10:48:00.000-07:00

San Diego BIMStorm Kick-off Event Schedule:

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Time: 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
Set up Auditorium, Scanner, Sound Check
Friday, June 12, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM - 8:30 PM PDT (Online Participants Only)

8 – 10 a.m. Expert Remote Team’s Setup

10 – 11:00 a.m. Kimon Introductory Webinar from Pasadena

11:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Teams working online to set up opportunities to study.

4:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT (Live at NewSchool)

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Final Room Set-up in Auditorium (from prior class)

4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Kimon Introductory Webinar from Pasadena along with examples
of work prepared during the day on large video screen (expect
80+ people in attendance).

5:30 – 6: 00 p.m. Food Break - Appetizers

6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Teams working independently online and live to set up
opportunities to explore.

7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Team members will scan and upload evenings work to the
BIMstorm website.

Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM - Midnight PM PDT (Online as appropriate)

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM PDT (Live at NewSchool) (expect 100+ people in attendance).

7:30 – 8: 00 p.m. Morning Food

8 – 10 a.m. Team’s working independently

10 – 11:00 a.m. Kimon Progress Webinar from NSAD

11:00 a.m. Team members will scan and upload work to the BIMstorm website.

11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Team’s working independently

12:30 – 1: 00 p.m. Lunch Food

1:00 – 5:00 p.m. Teams working independently online and live designing buildings.

2:30 p.m. Team members will scan and upload work to the BIMstorm website.

5:00 – 6: 00 p.m. Kimon Final Webinar from NSAD

4:30 p.m. Team members will scan and upload work to the BIMstorm website.

6:00 – 6: 30 p.m. Dinner Food (rearrange room and pin-up work for presentations)

6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Each Team presents the weekend’s work.
(Hopefully will be live video and news media attendance).

8:00 – 8:15 p.m. Closure and next steps.

8:15 – 9:00 p.m. Clean up and tear down of event materials (Return room to
original condition.

Contact: Philip Bona, Project Manager - BIMStorm® San Diego
650-207-9092, philbona@futuresandiego.org

Contact: Chuck Brands, Director, United GREEN
619-855-5235, chuckbrands@futuresandiego.org

Education Overlay Program Data for East Village Project Areas

2009-06-12T10:46:00.000-07:00

“BIMStorm San Diego 2009
– An Urban Design Charrette to Plan a Sustainable Future for the City of Villages

Summary:

The human enterprise component of this event is strictly on a volunteer basis made up of interested and passionate local and remote professionals and community stakeholders for the purpose of visioning a unique sustainable future for this urban region that has not yet been understood. The materials, data sets, operational software licenses, space accommodations, food, beverage, reprographic and drafting supplies will have an associated cost that will be paid for by sponsorship grants and in-kind donations.

Background:

There are a few small public, charter, and private elementary schools as well as the California Western Law School and a few small trade schools in downtown outside of East village. The larger schools are in East Village including San Diego City College, San Diego High School, Garfield High School, City College Trade School, the NewSchool of Architecture and Design, and the Art Academy University. In addition to the new 6 story Thomas Jefferson School of Law under construction in East Village, the proposed new San Diego Main Library is ready to start construction and is negotiating with the San Diego Unified School District to collocate a new public high school academy on two of the library’s upper floors. Further, Barrio Logan has the Perkins Public Elementary School and Woodbury University. Given that East Village will soon become a thriving community of diverse educational K-16 and post-graduate programs, there will be a need to provide for faculty and student family housing as well as an opportunity to attract other schools and education based businesses like publishing houses, educational media providers, book stores and virtual/distance learning enterprises.
East Village and Barrio Logan’s sustainable 2030 solution will incorporate new and existing transit stops as key hubs of proposed developments (like Smart-Corner at 12th & Broadway), the regional Transit Station at 12th and Imperial for the Trolley (overhead catinary wires), a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station (to be built), a Downtown Loop Shuttle (to be built). Note that there is also a main freight train line (BNSF) running parallel with Harbor Boulevard that also engages in switching operations approximately every 4 hours, 24 hours per day that blocks intersections and access to and from the bay for 5 -10 minutes at a time.

Urban Design Criteria (to be explored):
1. Layered density matrices that not only satisfy the Barrio Logan community’s preference for lower building heights along most of the area’s linear geography but also address the important mandate to accommodate a portion of the 60,000+ residents and 90,000+ jobs that the Centre City area will absorb by 2030.

2. The boundary between East Village and the Barrio Logan District is artificial on a map addressing a paper line between two historic, cultural and political districts. By 2030 the mix of citizens in this geographic area could have much in common as a result of the decisions made now by incorporating sustainable buildings, renewable energy, water efficiency, and pedestrian/transit centered smart growth principals.

3. The Barrio Logan District is currently vetting and updating its local Community Plan document that should be adopted by the San Diego City Council by 2010. The Centre City Redevelopment Expansion area is the only redevelopment district that could benefit from Tax Increment funding around the year 2030. The other CCDC redevelopment districts could cease before 2020. The next CCDC Community Plan update process should take place in 2011, which will likely align with a more rejuvenated local economy. Both communities have the opportunity to explore visions for the way they will address their sustainable future well in advance of the governing agencies policy making processes.

4. The Cities General Plan, Land Use Code, Housing Element, and Planned District Ordinances should be adhered to with the understanding that a Planned Development Project application may deviate from these planning codes where exemplary urban design and building design warrant the additional Planning Commission and City Council review and approvals. Therefore if it is a good sustainable design solution, the community supports it, and it meets the intent of the codes in place…anything is possible.

5. Proposed new and adaptive reuse developments and building projects are encouraged to include new diverse K-16 educational and post-graduate programs, faculty and student family housing, and education based businesses like publishing houses, educational media providers, book stores and virtual/distance learning enterprises.

6. Where possible propose appropriate new development of existing Brownfield sites especially along existing and proposed public transit corridors.

7. Incorporate innovative design for infill sites to include affordable and higher density housing, retail, office, and live-work development. Consider uses that support the education overlay concept.

8. Accommodate existing transit stops and propose new local transit stops and Bus Routing to serve linkages between the East Village and Barrio Logan Communities and around downtown as well as Golden Hill, Logan Heights and the Waterfront. Allow for enhanced and safe bicycle routes, bike racks, a bicycle servicing station with daytime storage and shower facilities.

9. Woven throughout East Village and a portion of Barrio Logan are a number of earthquake “finger” faults that run generally diagonally across the rigid street grid of downtown. These finger faults are designated fault lines with mandatory no-build setbacks that bifurcate a good portion of the buildable area of the two districts. While one of San Diego County’s most interesting natural features are its canyon lands which are mostly preserved habitat, it is possible to consider these random faults under the metaphor of “Urban Canyons” which can’t be built upon and could become a linkage of meandering pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfares, alleys, and retail oriented pedestrian streets and places that are safely removed from the street grid vehicle routes.

BIMStorm / Charrette Design Parameters:
1. Determine the highest & best use of Land
2. Determine the highest and best use of existing older buildings and wherever possible sustainably adapt the existing building’s historic use to a new contemporary use thus extending the useful life of the building by upgrading it, reduce its carbon emissions for the future.
3. Determine the historically significant and designated buildings in East Village and the Barrio Logan districts and make every effort to restore, refurbish and reuse these buildings extending the useful life of the building by upgrading it, reduce its carbon emissions for the future. If a significantly historic building is jeopardized by an eminent development, consider relocating the building intact or by disassembling and reassembling it on the two blocks that has been suggested as a downtown “Heritage Park” at 17th Street between Market and J Street. Upgrade the historic architectural fabric of this “Heritage Park” area.
4. Rethink on street parking, provide traffic calming bulb-outs. Add landscaped medians where called out in the PDO. Provide adequate underground parking but sustainably reduce the parking to stimulate public transit ridership.
5. Incorporate commercial/retail develop to activate the streets where appropriate but not an over-abundance as boarded up old businesses are the first step in establishing blight. Provide for cinemas, shops, restaurants, art galleries, professional offices, live-work studios, etc.
6. Housing
a. Add SRO over existing commercial,
b. Residential condos will still be profitable and get built,
c. Public development of affordable housing, faculty and student family housing; work with the San Diego Housing Commission and the YMCA.

2009-06-12T10:44:00.000-07:00

BIMStorm San Diego Live Participants at NSAD:

We are very excited about this wonderful and historic visioning process for our City of Villages. There is so much we can learn from one another in the spirit of Livable Communities and linkages to a sustainable Carbon Neutral future for the region in 2030 and beyond. That is our charge for this weekend…to create visions and case studies that others will use in the years to come to update regional and local policies, regulations, guidelines and codes to allow for a new way of thinking about shaping healthy, walkable, energy and water efficient, economically and socially diverse, and transit oriented communities. Their growth and redevelopment must manage waste, use alternative energy and recycled water solutions, and provide for a well articulated architecture respectful of the human scale and focused on a more compact approach to mixed-use development. While there are many more attributes to aspire to during the weekend, be brilliant, have fun, network, embrace the technology of BIMStorm, and think out of the box.

We have the following request to the participants who will attend at the NSAD (1249 F Street at Park Blvd.): If you have one, bring a wireless Laptop (make sure your name is one it); and make sure you have downloaded Google Earth and some drawing software like Sketch-up, Revit, AutoCAD, Archicad, etc.). Further, since we have not been able to generate pledge contributions, we must ask each team member to bring your own trace paper; pens and drawing tools (make sure your name is one them).

ALSO…If anyone can bring a Video Camera we would like to capture portions of Friday and Saturday but all of the presentations on Saturday evening.

In regard to food, the following is the schedule we are shooting for:
Thursday - 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Appetizers/finger food, water, sodas & juice
Friday - 7:30-8:30 a.m.: Pastries, fruit, juice, water, and coffee
Friday - 12:30-1:30 p.m.: Sandwiches, chips, salad, water, sodas & juice
Friday - 6:00-7:00 p.m.: Chinese food buffet style, water, sodas and coffee
(If you have special food requests contact Chuck Brands at 619-855-5235)

Please print the attached schedule and materials and bring them with you!

We will broadcast the 4 Onuma Training Webinars on the big screen in the Auditorium at the times designated in the attached schedule. If you will be logging on to see the progress of the work from your own computer, then you must sign up as described at the bottom of this email

Thank you so much for volunteering your valuable time.

Contact: Philip Bona, Project Manager - BIMStorm® San Diego650-207-9092, philbona@futuresandiego.org

Contact: Chuck Brands, Director, United GREEN619-855-5235, chuckbrands@futuresandiego.org

See process below to sign up for the 4 weekend Onuma training webinars:

From: BIMStorm [mailto:bimstorm@onuma.com] Subject: BIMStorm San Diego Start Up

BIMStorm San Diego is starting up tomorrow.
If you cannot be in San Diego please participate via Low Carbon Collaboration. There are several Webinars scheduled.
This is a good chance to learn first hand how to participate in a BIMStorm and use the tools.
We will have teams that are designing and hand sketching as well as teams that are using digital tools.

Please sign up for the webinars here. There are four Webinars available:
http://onuma.com/services/SanDiegoWatch.php

June 12, 2009 Official Start Up
June 13, 2009 continuation and review of previous two days.

June - September, 2009 - Continuation of BIMStorm San Diego

BIMStorm San Diego is Starting
48 Hours in San Diego to start the process
Sign up for Webinars below to join us virtually
June 12, 2009 - 10- 11:00 a.m. Introductory Webinar
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June 12, 2009 - 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Introductory Webinar & examples of work prepared during the day.
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June 13, 2009 - 10- 11:00 a.m. Progress Webinar
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June 13, 2009 - 5:00 - 6: 00 p.m. Final Webinar
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UPLOADING WEBSITE ADDRESS IS: https://www.onuma.com/plan/OPS/sitelist.php?sysID=53 after you have registered and logged in. Place your maps, drawings and other materials in one of the TEAM 1-10 Folders. See the attachment to this email on “Attaching Comments & Files.”

BIMstorm Webinars

2009-06-11T10:35:00.000-07:00

If you hae not done so already, please go here and sign up for a series of webinars we have for BIMstorm San Diego

click here

2009-05-28T10:05:00.000-07:00

Information about the San Diego BIMStorm is posted here.

Modeling a One Planet Living Community

2009-04-13T08:57:00.000-07:00

A possibility for tying BIMstorm San Diego into the larger global sustainable development effort might be to model, at least East Village, as a One Planet Living community similar to BedZED in England as well as Sonoma Mountain Village here in Northern California.

Modeling a Smart MicroGrid

2009-04-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

In preparation for potentially modeling "building integrated power" and/or a "smart microgrid" in East Village and/or Barrio Logan, here are some resources to guide our thinking and planning.

- The Galvin Electricity Initiative's 2-page overview of their smart microgrid concept, an online link to their new book "Perfect Power", and a webpage listing studies and reports on value models, etc.

- Exel Energy's whitepaper on their SmartGrid City concept and a webpage with links and info on their Smart House strategy and more in the nation's first large-scale community test in Boulder, CO.

- An article on microgrids from Lawrence Berkeley Labs with a link to the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS).

- Links to V2Green, a part of Gridpoint, who are in trials with several utilities using their hardware and software solutions for testing electric vehicle charging stations for tie-in with the smart grid.

- Smart Grid News and a webpage on federal ARRA smartgrid stimulus spending information.

- SDGE's Smart Meter initiative.

- And finally, a link to the May 19-20 "Revolutionizing the Smart Grid" conference being held right here in San Diego which may be a great opportunity for networking and gathering more nuggets of info.

San Diego Bimstorm SlideShow

2009-04-09T11:15:00.001-07:00

Here is a brief slideshow intro showing our preparations for BIMstorm San Diego.

San Diego Bimstorm

Maps

2009-04-08T18:57:00.000-07:00

Maps of East Village and Barrio Logan from Phil:

Downtown Community Plan Updates

2009-04-08T15:23:00.000-07:00

This site has a lot of interesting info. Note the list of draft Community Plans (PDFs)

http://www.ccdc.com/planupdate/#

For example, this PDF has a breakdown of info by Neighborhoods and Districts. (see pg 19, 20 for plans of East Villages urban strategies)

Interactive Projects Map

2009-04-08T14:32:00.000-07:00

Take a look at this Interactive Map. It shows locations and descriptions of Residential, Commercial and Public Development activities.

RSS Feeds

2009-04-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

Kimon or Yong,

I'm totally with you re. moving away from the email.

Is it possible to get an rss or other feed from this blog? If I missed the link I apologize for making more work, but I couldn't get Google Reader to recognize a feed.

I seem to remember some restriction due to the 'non-public' nature of the blog last time. One of the hold backs on using a blog to replace email is that you don't know when something has been posted if you cannot follow the feeds.

Other 'locked down' blogs have password protected feeds. Is such possible with Blogger?

Finith

Data to Import to BIMStorm

2009-04-03T14:36:00.000-07:00

To start up a BIMStorm, we need to have background data and input from participants:

Inputs to BIMStorm:
Can be imported directly into OPS:

Excel Program of building areas
Google Earth KML files of property lines
Google Earth KML files of other property features, utilities etc.
Any native BIM files, Revit, Archicad, etc.
IFC files of BIM
Google Map, sketches can be imported to OPS:
We can use Google Map to sketch out study areas and input ideas directly on the map.
Here is a starter Map

Can be attached or converted for import to OPS:

GIS ESRI Shape files can be converted to KML, but we would prefer if the KML files were available.
Sketches, JPEGS, PDFs are also ok, we can import them in as backgrounds
Autocad DWG files do not import directly, but could be used to build up relevant data to import to OPS, for example through Revit.
Photographs of site

2009-04-02T13:00:00.000-07:00

Let's keep this very important information organized. Mike...

Phil and All,

I haven't reviewed this link, but the stimulus money now flowing to cities should be a prime target for a BIMstorm San Diego funding proposal right alongside the one we're shortly gonna do to SDGE's Chip Fox and his utililty energy efficiency funds.

Chuck

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dave Grubb <DavidGrubb@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 2009/3/31
Subject: [SSDF] Energy Efficiency Block Grants
To: SSDF <ssdf@lists.sustainsandiego.org>

California allocations by city attached.

For information about the grants, see:

http://www.eecbg.energy..gov/default.html

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2009-03-29T16:04:00.000-07:00

Please let us know who else should be invited to this blog. For reference you can see how we used the BIMStorm Metro blog.

http://bimstormmetro.blogspot.com

2009-03-29T16:01:00.001-07:00

This blog will initially be used to organize the BIMStorm. Participants will be invited to contribute ideas of organizing the BIMStorm. We will start by making this an invitation only blog and then open it up to the public when we are ready to announce firm dates and other information about the BIMStorm.

Welcome to BIMstorm San Diego

2009-03-29T15:38:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the San Diego BIMStorm. This blog will be used to organize the BIMStorm for San Diego. Please provide input to help plan this BIMStorm.