Alex Schreyer's Blog, Projects, Books, and More
As you may know, I am the lead author on the book “Fundamentals of Residential Construction” (now in its fifth edition) as well as the co-author of the recently published book “Mass Timber: Materials, Design, and Construction“. Both books are published by John Wiley & Sons and are available in print or as e-books wherever […] Read more..
After two years of intensive work, my co-author, Peggi Clouston, and I are thrilled to announce that our new book “Mass Timber – Materials, Design, and Construction“ is officially out! We just received our author copies, and seeing the final product in person is incredibly rewarding. This book serves as both a reference and a […] Read more..
I have some exciting news: Together with Peggi Clouston, I co-authored a reference book on all aspects of mass timber buildings – from the materials through conceptualization and design to construction. If you are interested in developing, designing and constructing mass timber buildings, then you may want to keep an eye on this book. While […] Read more..
I have just released version 2.4 of my OpenAI Explorer (Experimental) SketchUp extension. This version features some smaller fixes of which the thumbnail that gets shown with the prompt (see image above) may be the most apparent one. Here is the complete list of changes: As before, you can download the extension from my site […] Read more..
OpenAI’s latest model “gpt-4o” is an “omni” AI model that adds vision capabilities. This means that it can analyze images as part of the request. In the context of 3D modeling in e.g. SketchUp, this capability gives us an additional set of eyes that can help us fix errors or analyze feasibility. I have now […] Read more..
I am very happy to announce that after a full year of editing, writing, photographing, reviewing, proof-reading, and then proof-reading again, the new edition of Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Allen/Schreyer/Thallon is now available! As before, it comes in an eBook version as well as a hardcover. For this edition, I was able to implement […] Read more..
When I recently organized my many construction images, I realized that I had a rather large collection of pictures of various construction mockups. Those structures typically only serve a temporary purpose during construction and are then removed once a project is complete. It always seemed to me (as an educator) to be quite a waste […] Read more..