⛏️⛰️ Excavation and Landscape in Revit 2025 with Nehama Shechter-Baraban | BIM Pure Live

Nehama is a landscape architect, a Revit expert, and the COO at Arch-Intelligence, where she helps develop the Environment plugin for Revit. She also teaches Revit for landscape at Ruppin Technological College in Israel.
In this session, Nehama will talk about:
🏔️ How to calculate cut & fill in toposolids
🏔️ The new excavation tools in Revit 2025
🏔️ Difference between building pad vs mass void
🏔️ How Environment tools can help with excavation
🏔️ Rhino assets, and more with Environment new features
And more!
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🎵 Music by: Ile Flottante
Timestamps:
0:00 - Pre-show music
0:31 - Intro & announcements
4:50 - Nehama’s landscape masterclass
8:20 - Topic of the day: Excavation tool
11:22 - Cut & fill in Revit before 2024
15:46 - Issues of the toposolid tool in Revit 2024
25:25 - Excavation tool in Revit 2025
33:06 - Nehama’s opinion about graded region feature
34:18 - Excavation on existing toposolid?
36:20 - Fill calculation with the excavation tool
38:54 - What is excavation?
41:40 - Demo of Nehama’s approach to excavation
46:48 - Revit issue...
48:23 - Back to the demo
54:02 - Single 3D approach
55:38 - Q&A from chat
59:19 - Environment new features
1:03:07 - Q&A from chat
1:05:05 - Back to Environment new features
1:11:40 - Environment plugin free trial
1:12:26 - Wrap Up
1:14:10 - Post-show music

[@e.e.z.e.e]

Grading involves altering the slope and elevation of the land, which includes leveling, creating swales, and building up or removing earth to prepare the site for construction. It's a broad term that covers many aspects of site preparation to ensure proper drainage and a stable foundation.
Excavation, on the other hand, is more specific and refers to the process of digging and removing earth. It is often one of the steps within the grading process, typically done to create foundations, trenches, or other sub-surface structures.
So, while excavation is a part of grading, grading is the broader term that includes various activities to prepare a site for building.

[@tael6691]

For foundations you need to excavate and then fill back with a porous material. This is elementary and it's funny how a landscape architect is totally oblivious to this.
Oh and no, there's not a working function for excevating and filling back for foundations in Revit.

[@borisziv4557]

Architects don't have any experience in construction phase, so it doesn't surprise me. But if you need to calculate filled earth after excavation, now you can. Check my other comment on this video.