Back in Paris for the second edition of RELEASE [AEC]

Tektome will be back at RELEASE [AEC] in Paris on Tuesday 20 October, demonstrating at Stand 6 in the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie. Come and see a whole project reviewed against everything it has to satisfy, with the evidence behind every finding.

Where to find us.

You can drop by at any point while the demonstrations run, with no booking needed. Entry is free for AEC professionals, but registrations are vetted, so it is worth signing up ahead of the day.

A second edition, in a new home.

RELEASE [AEC] launched last November at Paris Pleyel as a day for the AEC community to see where its technology is heading, with the emphasis on live demonstrations rather than presentations. In the evening it hosted Architizer’s first A+Awards ceremony for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. We demonstrated at that first edition, and we are glad to be returning for the second.

This year it moves to La Villette, with more than 40 technology companies demonstrating. The keynote programme brings in speakers from Henning Larsen, Sweco Architects, Benoy, KPF and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Thomas Heatherwick gives the evening keynote on humanising our cities, ahead of Architizer’s Vision Awards celebration. Registered AEC students join from 17:00.

Much of the day is about how AI is opening up design, and several talks look at how a practice turns early experiments into methods it can scale. Our part of that conversation is the review that comes before sign-off.

What we will be showing.

Last year we showed how a project’s requirements and a firm’s past project knowledge could be brought together and searched. This year we are putting them to work in a complete review of a sample residential scheme, shown as a short film at the pod, with the team on hand to walk you through it.

It starts with requirements. The building regulations and the firm’s own standards are installed as modules, alongside the lessons learned from completed schemes. The project’s own requirements are extracted from the brief, the exchange information requirements, the fire strategy and the meeting minutes, each linked to the passage it came from.

An agent then works through every requirement against the drawings and the model, measuring or calculating wherever a value is not stated. On the sample scheme, that turns up built-in storage below what the brief asks for, doors whose clear openings measure short in the model, a model update agreed in the minutes that was never made, and a soil stack running through a steel beam. Each finding comes with its evidence, as a marked-up drawing or a highlighted model view. Your team keeps the final say, and anything the evidence cannot settle goes to a named person instead of being guessed at.

Every verdict traces back to its source, and every review is kept, so the firm holds a record of what was examined, when, and what was found. That record stays when the project team moves on, and what the project learned is there at the start of the next scheme.

Who we would like to meet.

Stand 6 is worth a visit for anyone who reviews design work or puts their name to it, and we would especially like to meet technical directors, design and BIM managers, and the people who look after quality and standards in their practice. If you have a review from your own work in mind, describe it at the pod and we will talk you through how Tektome would approach it.