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Danny Bentley reflects on PHIST 2026 and how digital design, building data, IoT, and AI can improve hotel performance and long-term operating decisions.
From a pool in Bangkok I gave one spoken instruction to Codex on my phone, and the machine upstairs built two full Revit drawing sets — twelve issued sheets across two rooms — stamped the issuance, and updated the drawing register itself. Voice was the interface. The bridge did the work. Revit stayed the source of truth. Not fully headless yet — but the desk stopped being the bottleneck.
A practice-wide AI deployment in Revit is operational today across every workstation, every office, and every region the firm works on, with any AI client the firm chooses. Standards, framework, governance, and a method to scale across a global practice — the integration layer the industry is moving toward, already built, already deployed, already running.
Anthropic and Autodesk partnered, and Claude is now inside Fusion. I tested it with a chair, a machine part, and a building floor plan, and cross-checked the part in Blender. The real use case isn't prompt-to-geometry. It's existing conditions.
Revit 2027 ships with an AI assistant built on MCP. It can query models, create schedules, and tag elements. But it does not know your firm's standards. We built a system that does.
Company standards lived in printed manuals, then internal websites with dozens of pages. Every software rename broke them. This system replaces all of it with a single structured file that feeds AI videos, Notebook LM, and Claude Skills.
Lead BIM coordination on the Moscone Center Expansion at SOM. Co-located multidisciplinary team, full Revit integration across Architecture, Structure, and MEP. The model was selected as the featured cover of Revit 2020.
Drawing QC used to follow a clear rubric. We built a system-based approach using AI vision and Autodesk Construction Cloud to make it trackable, repeatable, and measurable.
Case study for SOM's collaboration on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) David Geffen Galleries with architect Peter Zumthor. Computational design exploration using Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi panelization, and code-driven geometry.
Why AI in AEC is not push-button, and how layered systems turn operational friction into structured knowledge.
A reusable workflow pattern that assembles a clean BIM Execution Plan from structured inputs and distributes it automatically by email.
How I am building a structured AI workflow to review large volumes of project documentation for sustainability consistency — without losing governance or traceability.
A build-in-public series on creating a lightweight BIM operations portal — the architecture, the friction, and the patterns that work.
Structural BIM and project delivery for a high-rise project in downtown Salt Lake City.
Structural BIM and project delivery work within the Wynn Las Vegas complex.