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BIM Construction Cost Estimating – Top Ten List

Building Information Management

First and foremost BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. While the industry is currently fixated upon 3D visualization tools, aka Revit, Archicad, Bentely… they only represent components of a BIM solution. Metrics and Benchmarks – Time, Accuracy, Cost.

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Same, same but different – My mother is not getting paperfreeconstruction, the concept.

DebunkTheBIM

Launching the ‘paperfree’ movement, I managed to unsettle her. I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. I designed and modelled iconic commercial buildings in Teamwork Architecture when we moved to a bigger town 15 years ago. I can say, she is a fan of mine.

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The Constructor that was not meant to be.

DebunkTheBIM

Get rid of the architectural baggage Archicad was weighed down with, and make Constructor a stand alone, construction focused, modelling package. I disagreed with both points but the fact that we still have no robust construction-modellers available proves the guy knew something about the industry. Sell it as a box.

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Have you heard the one about the ‘BIM Analyst’?

DebunkTheBIM

When I first read about this role, I thought it was a merely a retort of the architects as a group to the IT industry on the whole for them steeling the precious term ‘architect’. Enough to get to understand how the industry operates AND learn BIM? Then, I thought, it made sense. a place to stop and take a deep breath.

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The Legal Aspects of BIM

Building Information Management

BIM is the efficient full life cycle operation of the built environment, with the promise of managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and associated physical and functional conditions in concert with an organization’s changing needs. BIM is NOT 3D modeling (Revit, Archicad, Bentley, etc.), How would the project be procure?

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The Legal Aspects of BIM

Building Information Management

BIM is the efficient full life cycle operation of the built environment, with the promise of managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and associated physical and functional conditions in concert with an organization’s changing needs. BIM is NOT 3D modeling (Revit, Archicad, Bentley, etc.), How would the project be procure?

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

Building Information Management

Following a period of industry consultation, Uniclass 2 is now being finalized for publication during 2013. The NBS National BIM Library contains a number of objects that connect at a ‘product’ level (e.g. hand driers, baths, individual doorsets) while others work at a ‘system’ level (e.g.

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