5 ½ ways architects can show multifamily developers they get it
February 9, 2021
As an architect, how do you serve your clients’ needs more quickly? Aka: how do you win more work? Developers are human too. Sometimes impatient.
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Working with Fill-Type Garages
May 8, 2019
What is a Fill-Type Garage? Simply put? Fill a site with parking in an irregular fashion. TestFit handles three major fill-type garage scenarios with parking:
TestFit: Gurban
March 14, 2019
When we launched Residential Engine (TestFit’s predecessor) we had never imagined that we would have made it this far. It started as a way to
TestFit on Generative Design
November 7, 2018
A good friend, Anthony Hauck, wrote an exhaustive explanation of what generative design is. I will stick with his definition of generative design (stand on
Generative Design for Parking Garages
October 10, 2018
Why build generative design for parking garages? What do we build most in this world? Parking… What do we hate most in this world? Parking…
TestFit: Startup Year One In Review
September 19, 2018
TestFit was founded to design buildings in milliseconds–to help architects and developers solve real estate deals with ease. This idea, and our implementation of it,
Generative Noise Abatement for the NMHC Innovation Challenge
August 21, 2018
This is our proposal for the NMHC Innovation Challenge! Since we are deeply committed to multifamily innovation, we knew we had to submit. Here is the
Preconstruction Tutorial: TestFit to Excel
August 16, 2018
This is a simple workflow to go from TestFit to Excel for your preconstruction workflows. 1. Export a TestFit .csv 2. Open TF Sample Hard
The Eternal Struggle: Unit design or building design?
June 25, 2018
Building Design from the top down or Unit Design from the bottom up. Pick one. The problem we are actually solving… Building design wants to
Scan Point – AEC Hackathon
June 19, 2018
We went to the Dallas, Texas AEC hackathon last weekend – this is an event where teams attempt to build a solution for a problem