My longtime friend and Autodesk colleague Kean Walmsley and I have been talking about ways Autodesk technology might assist our customers, and even us at Autodesk in these changing times or the “new normal”. How might we evaluate social distancing, points where people could congregate or HVAC flows all based on best health and safety practices being publicly discussed in this potential new normal environment when many self isolated communities slowly phase back in public settings and buildings.
I would love to see discussions and solutions on how to evaluate existing structures or future and construction sites to best protect everyone. Perhaps a virtual Hackathon around C19 solutions to the new challenges in design and construction.
How might we:
- Evaluate designs and layouts to see the areas less than 6 feet social distancing in office layouts or construction and facility designs.
- Identify areas of touch and contamination concerns.
- Generatively provide layouts of buildings and work spaces to take into account social distance, touch surface elevation, and seating locations relative to HVAC diffusers.
- Generate and evaluate walking flow patterns to minimize risk of transmission.
- Use Forge, Refinery, Dynamo, BIM 360, Revit, Design Automation, or other tools and technologies to automate this and make our world much more safe and reduce risk.
What do you think about in design, construction, or facilities that may have changes and need to be considered? I know of a customer running scripts manually right now drawing 6 feet diameter circles on chairs and then running clash detection to identify these risks on existing layouts now and that’s far to manual and small picture as we could identify and propose solutions using generative.
Post your comments here below, to my Twitter @ShaanHurley, or email me shaan.hurley@autodesk.com. We could potentially setup a public GitHub site.
How can we all put our collective brains together and solve these challenges for the many?
Read Kean’s excellent blog post.
Generatively designing ae post-COVID world
Another great link:
10 Best Practices to Support a Remote Workforce During COVID-19
Something Funny to make you smile after the serious topic above.
Have you noticed colleges and friends going feral in quarantine? Sometimes I think I entered the wrong Zoom conference not recognizing people unable to get haircuts or growing beards and mustaches.
We will get through this, together. This is what community is about and why it is needed.
Shaan
PS:
It is so weird to be in this pandemic and having been in my home working for 6 weeks. 3 year ago this month I was on a team exploring innovative ways to recover from a pandemic in Seattle Washington’s King County Emergency Operations Center with a group of people and considering radio networks, drones, and emotional needs for a community to recover if something big were to hit and isolate. I was involved with the FIT “Field Innovation Team” and nominated by Autodesk to participate and assist in disaster recovery planning and operation as we did with assisting with the Oso Mudslide disaster and mapping terrain and damage in 3D to a 3D printed model daily for emergency responders and search and rescue to deal with the out of date topo maps. The bottom line on any difficult situation is pulling together and helping each other, and staying connected.
Sounds like something we might want to collaborate Shaan. Esri’s tools have great interop with Autodesk’s and our ability to perform spatial analysis is second to none! Let’s talk!
Marc,
Thank you. This is awesome, and yes it would be nice to (even informally) collaborate and engage both our customer networks which many are common to solve this challenge. I think there are many possibilities and together we can do more impact.
Activate, Power Rangers!
Lets Talk! shaan.hurley@autodesk.com
Shaan, I have a couple of requests that came into the Autodesk Foundation. Will forward to you!
Perfect, I look forward to the email Bobbie!
Great article Shaan! I love it.
Great article Shaan! I love it!
Maybe this will help the case of the countless people, who have spoken for a long time about the problems encountered by having these awfull overcrowded open work spaces (even just 2 people in a small office is overcrowding). The usual complaint is ‘noise’ but a great many people do really want ‘personal space’. I for one have taken to remote working like a ‘duck to water’. Now would be a great time to address these concerns as well.
Think there is huge demand for this Shaan. Every public space, as in where people aggregate, will need consideration. Retail, Food, Libraries, Cinema etc
Absolutely, yes so many things will need to be considered.
-Shaan
HVAC one of my second week concerns. I’m told air flow from central air recirculates in common areas. Every person who leaves their office would have to walk through the recirculated air…whether their office vents are connected to central or not. Concerned, is there even adequate filtration against particles this size? Solutions on the horizon.