Reza Haji

Nevada looks harsh at first glance. Las Vegas bakes through long summers. Reno and Carson City swing from hot afternoons to cold nights. Higher-elevation communities see snow, wind, and deep winter lows. Yet those same conditions make Nevada one of the most interesting places in the U.S. to build homes that use very little energy. A well-designed passive or zero-energy home does not fight the desert. It works with it. Thick insulation, careful shading, airtight construction, efficient heat...

A two-story building can often rely on direct firefighter access, short evacuation paths, and relatively simple sprinkler hydraulics. A high-rise cannot. Once a building rises above the practical reach of exterior firefighting, the building itself must become part of the fire department’s operating strategy. That is why fire protection design in high rise buildings in the United States is not just “more sprinklers on more floors.” It is a coordinated life safety system that combines...

LEED projects often fail on paperwork before they fail on design intent. A model may include efficient fixtures, low-emitting materials, high-performance systems, and carefully designed spaces, yet the team still spends hours copying values into spreadsheets, checking missing parameters, writing credit narratives, and matching model data to LEED documentation forms. That is where Revit automation becomes useful. Revit automation means using rules, scripts, schedules, plugins, Dynamo graphs,...