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= Charles (Chuck) Eastman =

Charles Eastman is a Professor of Architecture and the director of the Digital Building Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture.

Professor Eastman's teaching and research is in the areas of Building Information Modeling, solids and parametric modeling, engineering databases, and product models and interoperability. He also is an active researcher in design cognition and cognitive science.

Educational Background
B Arch, M Arch, University of California, Berkeley

Fields

 * Building Information Modeling
 * Solids and parametric modeling
 * Engineering databases and product models
 * Interoperability

Previous Positions

 * Previously Director of the COA PhD Program Georgia Tech, 2000-2008
 * Professor of Architecture, Director of the Center for Design and Computation, UCLA, 1987-1995
 * Professor of Architecture and Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1974-1982
 * Director of the Center for Building Science and of the Computer Graphics Lab, 1978-1982
 * Started the Ph.D. Program at Carnegie-Mellon, 1969
 * Founder and first President, Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
 * Co-founder and President, Formative Technologies, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA. 1982-1987

Books

 * Eastman, C., Teicholz, P., Sacks, R. and Liston, K. (2008) BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey.

Papers and Conferences

 * Sacks, R., Kaner, I., Eastman, C.M., and Jeong, Y-S., (2010). ‘The Rosewood Experiment – Building Information Modeling and Interoperability for Architectural Precast Facades’, Automation in Construction 19 (2010) 419–432.
 * Chuck Eastman, Jin-kook Lee, Hugo Sheward, Paola Sanguinetti, Yeon-suk Jeong, Jaemin Lee and Sherif Abdelmohsen  (2009) Automated Assessment of Early Concept Designs, Mar 6 2009 Architectural Design John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (p 52-57)
 * Eastman Charles M. and Rafael Sacks. (2008) Relative Productivity in the AEC Industries in the United States for On-Site and Off-Site Activities, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Vol. 134, No. 7, July 1, 2008, 517-526.
 * Barak R, Jeong Y-K, Sacks R, and Eastman C, (2007) Unique Requirements of BIM for Cast-in-place Reinforced Concrete, ASCE Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering 2007, Pittsburgh, PA June 27.
 * C.M. Eastman, R. Sacks, Y.-S. Jeong, I. Kaner, Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Precast Concrete, National Institute of Building Sciences, Washington DC, USA, 2007, p. 212
 * Eastman, C.M. (2004) University and industry support of research in support of BIM, Report on Integrated Practice, M. Broshar, N. Strong, D. Friedman (eds.), American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C. (2006).
 * Eastman, C.M. (2004) Invited Keynote Presentation, New Methods of Architecture and Building, Fabrication: Proceedings ACADIA 2004 Conference, Toronto, CA