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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. Further life-cycle management of the built environment requires significant “change management” in most organizations whether Owners, AEs, Contractors, Oversight Groups, etc.

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Cloud Computing and BIM – Article 2012 – TME

Building Information Management

Cloud Computing and BIM - TME Article 2012. Modeling (BIM) and Cloud Computing. life-cycle management of the built environment, alignment of structures with. adaptive and efficient facility life-cycle. The increasingly competitive financial. and environmental landscape requires. Both technologies also embed.

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Definition of BIM – Building Information Modeling – Defintions from Various Sources

Building Information Management

‘Building Information Modelling (BIM) is digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility creating a shared knowledge resource for information about it forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle, from earliest conception to demolition.” ” – NIBS, 6/25/2012.

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” Evidence-based ” Life-cycle Federal Facility Management, BIM, and the Status Quo – NIBS, FFC

Building Information Management

Key Topics / Take Aways: Identify and advance technologies, processes, and management practices that improve the performance of federal facilities over their entire life-cycle, from planning to disposal. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM.

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Open BIM Standards – COBIE, OMNICLASS – IFC / COBIE Report 2012

Building Information Management

BIM adoption remains a challenge due to the fact that its many supporters don’t focus upon it’s true relevance, the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. As noted in the IFC / COBIE Report 2012, BIM’s success depends upon the ability to: Create model data in a consistent format.

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What is wrong with ” The Business Value of BIM for Construction in Major Global Markets: How Contractors Around the World are Driving Innovation with Building Information Modeling” ?

Building Information Management

The report states “…BIM adoption in North American skyrocketed from 28% to 71% between 2007 and 2012…” Does anyone out there actually believe this based upon the BIM defintion I have provided below? effectively developing an asset life-cycle process and model from conception to final retirement.

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U.K. National BIM Survey Released 2012 – BIM in UK as Confusing as in the US?

Building Information Management

75% of those construction professionals currently aware of BIM predict they will be using it on some projects (another indication of uncertain implementation levels) by the end of 2012, and almost 19 out of 20 people expect to be using it in five years’ time. Attitudes towards BIM.

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