Blue Marble Project

We’ve recently created and posted nearly 50 SketchUp models (and counting) for CertainTeed Restoration Millwork. The CertainTeed collections include trimboards, beadboard, full size sheets, a full line of specialty profiles and an array of accessories. CertainTeed came to us looking for 3D Assets to supplement the PDF version of their product catalog. Each of the models that are uploaded to the warehouse link directly to the online catalog, providing easy access to designers and customers looking to specify CertainTeed products.

President of BMP, Mike Tadros, was interviewed for an article about SketchUp for GigaOM. The Article talks about a bunch of great tools and plugins for Google SketchUp that allow designers to make environmentally responsible decisions more fluidly during the early stages of design. The article cites the work that Blue Marble Project has done, creating 3D models of green building products for Google’s 3D Warehouse, as playing a crucial role in the decision making process for designers who are focused on designing greener buildings.

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We recently teamed up with the folks at Google.org and Geodynamics (an Australian geothermal energy company), to create a series of informational 3D models and animations that illustrate the process of driling and harvesting for geothermal energy.

You can view the animation and download the models from Google.org’s website. The Models are also available for download from Google’s 3D Warehouse.

For the full run-down on the project, check out this post on our Igloo Studios Inc. Blog.

Sustainable Industries has released their annual supplemental issue - 2008 Top 10 Green Products. Blue Marble Project is proud to have played a role in the creation of this year’s issue by supplying Sustainable Industries with the 3D computer models that were embedded in the downloadable PDF version of the issue. The 3D SketchUp models can also be downloaded from the Google 3D Warehouse.

Google invited Mike Tadros and Alex Oliver to deliver a presentation at the 2008 Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp. The topic was titled ‘Promoting Your Work Using Google Resources.’ The presentation included information about the Google 3D Warehouse, Google SketchUp, and Google Earth. For more detailed information about the presentation that was given, as well as a link to the presentation Slide Deck, check out the posts that we put together for the Igloo Studios, Inc. Blog.

BMP was contracted by Velux America to translate their catalog of stunning skylights into a collection of digital 3D models. Architects and designers are now able to download the skylights for free from the Velux collection available on the Google 3D Warehouse.

Full Velux Press Release

A big congratulations to all of the modelers and photographers putting Los Angeles on the map!

Wouldn’t it be nice to know where to park if you wanted to shop at Macy’s? Well now you can plan those kind of details a little easier by visiting the 3D Shopping Centers in California that we’ve modeled for Westfield, Corp. The Shopping Centers are available for download in SketchUp format from the Google 3D Warehouse, or you can view the models in Google Earth.