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About the Authors

Eddy Krygiel is a registered architect and the Director of Design Technology at HNTB Architecture headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. He has been using Revit since 2003 to complete projects ranging from single-family residences and historic remodels to 1.6-million-square-foot office buildings. Eddy is responsible for implementing BIM at his firm, and also consults for other architecture and contracting firms around the country looking to implement BIM. He has been teaching Revit to practicing architects and architectural students in the Kansas City area, and has lectured around the nation on the use of BIM in the construction industry. Eddy has also coauthored several other titles on Revit and sustainability.

James Vandezande is a registered architect and a principal at HOK in New York City, where he is a member of the firm-wide BIM leadership and is managing its buildingSMART initiatives. After graduating from the New York Institute of Technology in 1995, he worked in residential and small commercial architecture firms performing services ranging from estimating and computer modeling to construction administration. In 1999, he landed at SOM and transformed his technology skills into a 10-year span as a digital design manager. In this capacity, he pioneered the implementation of BIM on such projects as One World Trade Center, aka Freedom Tower. James has been using Revit since version 3.1 and has lectured at many industry events, including Autodesk University, VisMasters Conference, CMAA BIM Conference, McGraw-Hill Construction, and the AIANYS Convention. He is a cofounder of the NYC Revit Users Group ( http://nyc-rug.com ), and has been an adjunct lecturing professor at the NYU School for Continuing and Professional Studies as well as the Polytechnic Institute of NYU.

Phil Read is the founder of Arch | Tech as well as one of the forces behind the original Revit software. Hes also a blogger, a speaker, a tweeter, and a popular presenter at Autodesk University. After working in both civil engineering and architecture, he downloaded Revit version 1.0 (at the suggestion of an ArchiCAD reseller) and was hooked. Less than a year later, he began working for Revit Technology and then Autodesk as a project implementation specialist, where he had the honor and pleasure of working with some of the most remarkable people and design firms around the world. Phil holds degrees in communications and architecture as well as a masters degree in architecture.