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BIM Strategy – Technology is not the issue – 2014 – Building life-cycle management

Building Information Management

Forget 3D visualization, life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology, BIM, is all about people, process, and competency-centric technologies. Life-cycle strategy vs. first-cost. Shared risk-reward. . Life-cycle strategy vs. first-cost. Shared risk-reward.

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BIM in Chains – Sustainability and Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment Stalled?

Building Information Management

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. I am “mad as hell” at how 3D visualization vendors have marketed BIM. Sure 3D visualization is a great tool, and a valuable component of BIM… but in itself, 3D visualization is NOT BIM.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.

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Construction Sector Waste Due to Flawed Decision-Making

Job Order Contracting

Paper-based, and/or email-centric … The post Construction Sector Waste Due to Flawed Decision-Making appeared first on 4BT.

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New in Autodesk Build: Product Releases to Check Out in the New Year

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Assets | Progress Tracking + Assets The new progress tracking features within the Assets tool in Autodesk Build deliver a simple intuitive way to visually markup and track asset progress on 2D sheets. With this activated, users can view and access information pertaining to the change order life cycle.

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Why You Should Make 4D Construction Sequencing ‘Business as Usual’ – and How To Do It

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As humans, we rely on visual content to understand and consume information – so why, for example, is the archaic Gantt chart still such a core piece of documentation when it’s something that most people struggle to interpret? So, if you’re still asking yourself, ‘Why do we need to leverage 4D?’

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

These benefits are largely derived through the use of a common data environment, CDE, which dramatically improves communication and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle. Finally, complementing and adding the information is in the life-cycle physical asset model is simplified using a CDE. The Designer”.