Introducing Revit Architecture 2009

Greg Demchak is a designer, a technology advocate, urbanexplorer, and post-apocalyptic film producer. He holdsarchitectural degrees from the University of Oregon andMassachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a product designer forAutodesk and has been working with Revit since 2000. He has beenteaching at the Boston Architectural College since 2003 and iscurrently the principal investigator for the 2009 Solar Decathloncompetition. He resides in Massachusetts. Tatjana Dzambazova was the product manager for RevitArchitecture between 2005 and 2007, after which she moved intoglobal sales development management for the AEC industry. Beforejoining Autodesk in 2000, she practiced architecture for 12 yearsin Vienna and London. At Autodesk, she has focused on evangelizingtechnology and established herself as an internationally renownedspeaker who has fostered relationships with architects and industryleaders from all around the globe. Powered with seemingly unlimitedsources of energy and passion, Tanja manages to make three days outof one, always on the hunt of what's new and exciting in theworld of architecture and technology; and when she is not workingor coauthoring technology books, she is advocating wildlifeconservation, reading books like a maniac, getting inspired in thetheaters, and playing Scrabble and Texas Hold 'Em. Eddy Krygiel is a registered architect, a LEED AccreditedProfessional, and an Autodesk Authorized Author at BNIM Architectsheadquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been using Revitsince version 5.1 to complete projects ranging from single-familyresidences and historic remodels to 1.12-million-square-foot officebuildings. Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at his firm andalso consults for other architecture and contracting firms aroundthe country looking to implement BIM. For the last four years, hehas been teaching Revit to practicing architects and architecturalstudents in the Kansas City area and has lectured around the nationon the use of BIM in the construction industry. Eddy alsocoauthored Green BIM: Successful Sustainable Design withBuilding Information Modeling, a book on sustainability andBIM, with Bradley Nies (Sybex, 2008).