Articles by Michael Kilkelly

In their day-to-day work, architects face a lot of distractions and challenges: managing clients, collaborators and contractors; keeping up to date with the latest software and technologies; drafting planning applications and paperwork; and if you’re lucky, even getting to design some things in between. Originally published by ArchSmarter, this post offers 21 tips on how to maximize your productivity and minimize unnecessary work.

This article was originally published by ArchSmarter.

Have you ever played the party game “telephone”? You know the one, where you tell something to the person next to you and they pass it on to the person next to them and so on down the line. Inevitably, your original message is badly mangled and misappropriated by the time it gets back to you. Everyone gets a good laugh at how far the end message is from your original one.

This article was originally published by ArchSmarter as “The 10 Revit Apps You Should Be Using in 2017.”

I recently asked ArchSmarter readers what tools they’re using to be more productive in Revit. Over 75 different add-ins were recommended! I tallied up all the votes and came up with this list of top-ten recommendations. There are some repeat nominees from my previous round-ups (which you can read here and here) as well as some welcome newcomers. 

When applying for architecture jobs, it’s often necessary to self-evaluate your skill at various tasks. However, with many of these tasks–especially software–it can be difficult to give an accurate assessment since you often don’t know what you don’t know about the skill. This article, originally published by ArchSmarter as “Where Are You on the Path to Revit Mastery?” will help you come to an objective assessment of your skill level with one of the most complex and powerful pieces of software available.