ArchiCAD Summer School: 2006: Programme

Tuesday 5th Sept

One Day training course: ArchiCAD 10 Introduction: Adrian Harms + Meenakshi Mandhar of Bite.co.uk. [details]

Wednesday 6th Sept

One Day training course: The ArchiCAD 10 Office: Andreas Lettner of Maars.at [details]

Evening: Following the Regional RIBA AGM: 1900: The East Midlands RIBA have their AGM in the SRB lecture Theatre of the School of the Built Environment at 630pm (1830) and following this will have an evening lecture open to all comers - 1900, The speaker will be Architect Tom Cederqvist from CEJ Helsinki, one of our main Summer School Thursday night speakers. You are invited to take part in it. Although you will see similar Powerpoint, the talks will be angled differently - the local architects use all CAD varieties and are interested in philosophy of design, whereas the Thursday evening will focus more on the use of ArchiCAD. Both events are worth attending. If you are staying for Wednesday night, you can turn up at 1800 and enjoy sharing the Buffet.

Morning: for those who arrived Tuesday or Wednesday, this is a chance to explore the University and Jubilee campuses or go into the City.
Andreas Lettner (who runs the one-day course on Wednesday) will hold an informal 'focus on your practice' surgery 1000-1300, looking at your projects and models in Archicad 9 or Archcad 10, if you have them on laptop, and if you just want to listen, show you the Feuerkogel Gloriette project.

Arrive during the afternoon, check in at Nightingale Hall: buffet lunch is available if you arrive during the lunchour ... refreshments during the afternoon. Bar will be open.

ArchiCAD University kickoff: 1600-1610: Short introduction to ArchiCAD Summer School in the Plenary Space by DNC.

ArchiCAD Encounter: 1610-1730: Icebreaking session, in small groups, people introducing themselves, setting the agenda, raising issues, in the spaces and gardens of Nightingale Hall. (Facilitators Report back after dinner.)

Feedback: 1730-1800: from ArchiCAD Encounter session - Facilitators Report back

Dinner: 1830-1930: Dining hall Nightingale Hall.

Evening: 8pm: Conference Space of Nightingale Hall.

Evening Plenary	2000-2040: Advanced User Case Study : Tom's update since last year's talk
	2045-2200: Advanced User Case Study: Michel tells us about his work
		Michel Rojkind, whose house has been used as the logo for ArchiCAD 10 is our main speaker on Thursday. He is an inspiring speaker, and has a rich body of built work and competition entries. www.rojkindarquitectos.com/ Michel also gets frequent mentions on Graphisofts site.
		We are also lucky to have a return visit by Tom Cederqvist from Finland who was our main Case Study speaker of 2005, and he will do a short update on interesting work and competition entries since Sept 2005. /www.cej.fi/ . see also Graphisofts site.

Introduction to ArchiCAD Summer School & Friday's programme: 0900-0915

Graphisoft Morning: 0915-1045: Plenary: Graphisoft reveal the next great thing!
ArchiCAD 10.0 was announced to the world at in April 2006, and it is the biggest upgrade in recent memory, and the best tested before release - it is just coming into the UK. Graphisoft also have strong products in the construction world, including Constructor and Estimator and Change Manager and have good collaborations with other software manufacturers. Every year, GS have had something good and new to show. Maxonform is an astounding addition to the ArchiCAD user's system, seen at ACUESS 2005, and now established.

Technical details of some of the products can be discussed close up in some of the later 90 minute "Meet the Team Q&A" sessions with the Graphisoft developer/support team. Where better to discuss your wishlist!

Coffee/Tea: 1045-1115

Plenary: 1115-1300: Migration to ArchiCAD 10: Graphisoft Developer Team
The process of upgrading to a new version but continuing a building project always causes some headaches. The migration issues with AC10 are much greater, especially if you have an advanced model and have already placed many viewsets into a complex Layout Book with varied paper sizes - do you keep them separate or merge into a new AC10 file or stay with 9 a bit longer? How do you migrate a Teamwork project and team to AC10? How do Interactive Schedules copy over? What do you do with existing Printing/Plotting sets in the Publisher? What will you do with project files from the 90's? Can you save files back to AC9? What are Library Container Files?

Lunch: 1300-1400

1400-1545 : Workshops

Workshops: 1400-1545 : in small groups
These will run simultaneously in each time period. See Noticeboards for the locations.

Coffee/Tea: 1545-1615

Workshops: 1615-1800 : in small groups
These will run simultaneously in each time period. See Noticeboards for the locations.

Dinner: 1800-1930

Workshops: 2000-2145 : in small groups
These will run simultaneously in each time period. See Noticeboards for the locations.

Saturday 9th Sept

Half Plenaries: 0915-1045: Covering 2 subjects which are of greatest interest.

Coffee/Tea: 1045-1115

Workshops: 1115-1300 : in small groups
These will run simultaneously in each time period. See Noticeboards for the locations.

Lunch: 1300-1400: Lunch

Tips and Tricks: 1400-1600: to round off the Saturday afternoon.
Delegate and tutors show off some special tricks or case studies.

"Tips and Tricks" is now a tradition for the Summer and Winter Schools, to have a final session in which Delegates come up and show some of the work they have been doing in the previous year. It's also a chance for tutors to show an extra trick that was enjoyed during the workshops, and for announcements to be made about future events, like the ArchiCAD Winter School.

Coffee/Tea: 1600

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Saturday Evening

Night out in the Centre! 1800--->

We normally have about 30 people staying overnight for the Saturday night, so we go for a meal and walkabout in Nottingham City Centre. This is a fun experience for the long distance travellers. Nottingham has a vibrant nightlife with the highest concentration of clubs and pubs in the country - it's very safe (but get taxi back to hall after midnight).

We have again booked space at Antibo's the restaurant on Parliament St, and we are booked in for 7pm. Walk to the Wollaton Park Gate bus stop and get the Bus, either 35 or the 36, into town centre. There's one of these about every 10 mins, even on a Saturday to Angel Row. costs £ 1.30 into town or £ 2.50 return. Buses 35 and 36 return from Angel Row 2240, 2300, 2310, 2330, 0005.