Part 1
Sharpen Your Revit Skills!

November 10, 2021  |  6:00pm – 8:30pm ET

The Revit for Lighting Designers class is geared towards sharpening the skills of Revit users from beginners to experienced. Revit is one of the most popular tools available and is widely used for the creation of 3D digital Building Information Modeling (BIM). Proficiency in Revit is critical to effectively share information with project teams and in the production of design and construction documents. This class will be led by Jason Van Nest, RA, a BIM expert with over 12 years experience, who has helped train staff members at numerous architecture and design firms on the use of advanced technology to improve their project delivery workflows. He will apply this knowledge and skills to the needs of lighting designers.

Attendees will learn:

• An overview of the basics: Revit Interface, Datums, Host Elements, Dimensions and Editing Types
• Work-sharing Theory: Server based BIM Editing
• Introduction to Family Editor, Creating Custom Families, Nested Families, Role of Parameters, and Hosted Lines
• Troubleshooting, Project Organization and Optimal Workflow

PRESENTER

New York City-based Jason Van Nest, RA, is a practicing architect who contributed to award-winning projects including the Renovation of Pier A with H3, and Hillside House with David Weiner Architects. As a BIM consultant he works with many architecture and design firms including SHoP Architects, Diller, Scoffidio + Renfro, Cooper Robertson Partners, HWKN, Deborah Berke Partners, CookFox, GLUCK+, and others, to help them use advanced technology to improve their project delivery workflows. In addition, he is a tenure-track professor at New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) School of Architecture and Design and has taught graduate level computational design courses at Yale School of Architecture and graduate level representation courses at New York School of Interior Design (NYSID). Van Nest is a 2008 MacDowell Colony Fellow and a 2015 Byrdcliffe Arts Colony Fellow. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at the MacDowell Colony since being elected Fellows Executive Committee President in 2012. He earned his Master of Architecture at Yale School of Architecture in 2005, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999.