Architects of change who shaped the future of India
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Montreal, QC (PRWEB) December 17, 2013
Messaging Architects, a 100% employee-owned global market leader of Integrated Email Management solutions and services, today announced that it has been named one of Canadas Top 50 Small and Medium Employers for 2014 by the editors of Canadas Top Employers.
Headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Messaging Architects award-winning Netmail platform simplifies the complexities surrounding email management by removing the need to deploy, integrate and manage multiple third-party systems. Netmail consolidates email security and encryption, policy-based email archiving and discovery, attachment management and unlimited email storage into a single web-based platform at a fraction of the cost of other leading solutions.
Employment at the company includes subsidies for tuition and professional accreditation, generous health benefits and matching pension plans, subsidies for health-related programs and transportation, a new employee-referral bonus program, flexible work hours and a leadership manifesto that encourages employees to be bold and remarkable.
Our employees (shareholders) are the heart of Messaging Architects, says Frederic Bourget, Chief Operating Officer at Messaging Architects. We make sure to take good care of our employees so that they in turn take good care of our clients. As we enter new growth markets in 2014, well be hiring new employees so the recognition by Canadas Top Employers is much appreciated."
In its inaugural year of the award, the Top Small and Medium Employers for 2014 is an annual competition organized by Canadas Top Employers. This special designation recognizes private sector small- and medium-sized employers with up to 500 employees that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work, based on criteria like physical workplace, work atmosphere, health, financial and family benefits, and employee communications, training and skills development, among others. The editors official reasons for selecting Messaging Architects for the award are available on the companys Careers page at eluta.ca.
About Messaging Architects Messaging Architects is a 100% employee-owned global market leader of Integrated Email Management solutions and services. For over 12 years, our award-winning Netmail platform has helped hundreds of organizations using a wide variety of email platforms eliminate complexity, ensure compliance and enhance productivity. To learn more about Netmail, visit http://www.netmail.com.
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Architects (UK) - BUS INVADERS Ep. 541 [Warped Edition 2013]
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Kerry Hill Architects video flythrough for Kings Square Project (winner)
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Integrated Design Process - Moger Mehrhof Architects
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For the first time in 70 years, the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal will recognize the work of a female architect. Julia Morgan, a prolific architect who died in 1957, will receive the 2014 Gold Medal in honor of her work's lasting influence on the field.
Morgan designed more than 700 buildings over her nearly 50-year career, including Hearst Castle, William Randolph Hearst's grandiose seaside estate in San Simeon, California. She was the first woman to graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and shortly after became the first woman to attend the cole des Beaux-Arts architecture school, graduating in 1902. Two years later she would become the first female architect licensed to practice in California.
She worked in a wide variety of styles, designing everything from Tudor houses to Spanish Colonial estates and Romanesque Revival churches. She helped establish the First Bay Tradition of architecture, a style influenced by nature and focusing on the use of locally sourced materials and craftsmanship.
Julias work is prolific, enduring, and continues to enhance the lives of those who experience it, Helene Combs, the 2014 AIA president, said in a statement.
In letters of recommendation for the award, Frank Gehry called Morgan "an architect's architect," and Denise Scott Brown referred to her buildings' "modest monumentality and tender gravitas, beautifully executed."
Morgan is the 70th architect to receive the Gold Medal, but only the first woman to be chosen since the contest began in 1907. She's the seventh person to receive the award posthumously, but "she deserved the Gold Medal in her lifetime," as Scott Brown noted, raising the question of why it's so hard for women in architecture to have their work acknowledged.
Morgan's long-delayed recognition, more than half a decade after her death, highlights the broader struggle women still face in attaining recognition for their work. The prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize faced controversy earlier this year when the organization refused to revisit Scott Brown's role in the work of her partner and husband, Robert Venturi, who won the Pritzker in 1991. By comparison, the Gold Medal committee's decision to recognize one of the AIA's most influential members 56 years after her death seems positively progressive.
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The construction of a building does not only start with its design by architects and engineers. It also depends on determining a broad array of factors, including the price of materials, labour, the writing of specifications and of the building contract, as well as the careful orchestration of all of the activities that are part of the building process. The trouble is that the organisation of these activities is still labour intensive. To address the increased complexity of buildings, a type of software, called 'Building Information Modelling' (BIM), has gradually been developed and introduced in the construction industry, in recent years.
In the building sector, the introduction of BIM can be a challenge, especially for big companies, according to Carlos Barcena, head of the R&D projects department of Dragados, a large general construction contractor based in Madrid, Spain, and one of the partners of the DIRECTION project. "We have to integrate systems, new tools, and new procedures," he says.
However, this approach is beneficial. "We are involved in some networks in Spain tackling the issue of implementing BIM in our companies," he adds. And it has paid off. Last year, the company had to start the construction of a complex building, but were faced with too many inconsistencies. They then delayed the building for three months while implementing BIM. He concludes: "We were able to catch up and saved time and money."
Unlike many software packages used in industrial design, BIM is not just a new technology, argues Ezio Arlati, a professor of architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. "It is a process, and it is important to implement the process, and not the technology." Essential to the process is the reliability of a very large set of data and their management. "You have to create a transparent process for managing the data sets for their flow along with the design and construction of the building," Arlati adds.
An important aspect of BIM is the possibility of modelling the entire building process, using the parameters of the project. This allows the anticipation of pitfalls, one of the reasons of the success of BIM. "The advantages are based on the elimination of all areas of waste: wasted time, wasted money, wasted materials, and waste caused by mistakes," says Arlati, who is also the vice president of the Italian chapter of BuildingSmart International, an organisation that supports the worldwide use of BIM.
Easy access to documents and information is the key that makes BIM attractive. "You have to manage the data sets so that it is transparent for every stakeholder: the client, the designer, the construction entrepreneur, and the supply chain," notes Arlati.
BIM is changing the approach to implementing a new building project, thus changing the work of architects, designers and construction companies. "Some of their roles will change, but expertise will remain the key," says Radbouw Baayen, a technical advisor at Stabu, a foundation based in Ede, the Netherlands,that develops information systems for the construction industry.
BIM has made the evaluation of the entire costs associated with the building more precise. "Traditionally, choices in the building sector were only based on the price for buying a building; now we can estimate the total cost, including the cost of the operation during the entire life cycle of the building," he says. With his approach one can avoid unpleasant surprises. "You could have a building that is cheap, but you can run into problems with the cost of managing the building, something you could have resolved at the beginning of the design process," says Baayen.
Adoption of BIM in the building industry is not yet universal, however. Baayen concludes: "We have the early adapters, and you have the followers, who do not yet understand what BIM can bring to their work."
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Acoustics are fundamental - Michal Cohen from BCSE award winning architects Walters and Cohen
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