DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been taking it easy with BIM lately. One can say, I got totally BIM-med out over it, an unhappy culmination of two decades of vigorously pursuing an elusive professional target with at best- mixed results. I now got myself a job that has nothing to do with BIM. I now got myself a job that has nothing to do with BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 20, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Friday, April 20, 2012. The entertainment value of BIM. I run a pretty versatile BIM department. The entertainment value of BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 6, 2017

‘What is BIM?’ – is probably the most off-putting intro question to anyone listening to a BIM presentation that a speaker can pull up, yet it comes up time after time at BIM conferences and lectures. I used to like the word ‘approach’ for it, being a ‘language’, ‘a set of tools and processes’.

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DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Earlier this year a survey was published in New Zealand: [link] “This New Zealand National BIM Survey 2012 report has been prepared by Masterspec on behalf of the construction industry. It provides a credible picture of present day attitudes and progress made towards Building Information Modelling (BIM) in New Zealand.”

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 21, 2018

My mother has been a solid supporter of my BIM journey over the last 3 decades. She has no idea what the ‘BIM’ acronym stands for exactly, but is closely associating it with all my professional ups and downs. Almost thirty years ago, I was first talking about computer modelling of buildings. It is the old BIM. Is it hard?

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 24, 2013

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BIM require s the integration of previously d ispara te compet enci es, processes, and technologies. Uncategorized 2013 BIM fact fiction integrated project delivery IPD job order contracting requirements' Does it exist today?

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DebunkTheBIM

JUNE 16, 2017

First, let me introduce you to the term of ‘a dystopian BIM practitioner’. True, over many years now, I have been cementing my image in the field, as being forever negative about BIM and its immediate prospects to grow, help productivity, cooperation and innovation. Maybe, I hurt too many of well-meaning, little BIM ants.

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Building Information Management

JUNE 6, 2013

BIM objects are much more than just graphical representations. All BIM objects have properties, and most also have geometries (although some do not, for example a paint finish). The specification is part of the project BIM, and objects live in the specification. ‘A new generation of specifiers is being empowered by BIM.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. That said, BIM has been preoccupied with 3D visualization to the extent that many/most feel that Revit, Archicad, et al are all that’s needed to implement BIM. Enter… OMNICLASS, COBie, MasterFormat, UniFormat … 2.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 20, 2016

Must be right – the moment bidding farewell to a lovely team of HLG BIM-mers, almost fully coincided with the time when I lost all my belief in anything BIM. I just stopped believing BIM functioning on any meaningful scale beyond the involvement of a couple of people on a project.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The global AEC is swarming with BIM Viewers, any service provider dealing in Building Related Information appears to have a proprietary one on offer. Commonly they offer the ability to view BIM models of various origins, maybe combine them, rotate, zoom, filter information. Some are better than others.

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Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Many remain confused about the meaning and value of BIM (building information modeling). 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.

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Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Many remain confused about the meaning and value of BIM (building information modeling). 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.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 5, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Thursday, April 5, 2012. Stop shouting: learn BIM instead! The entertainment value of BIM. Archicad at its best). at 7:12 AM.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 26, 2014

This approach is somewhat surprising considering that in most contemporary construction contracts PDF’s as the digital representations of drawings have often higher standing than model files or even DWGs. These can be placed in plans/elevations/sections making them an excellent base for either 2D or 3D based work.

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Building Information Management

MAY 15, 2012

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.

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Revit Beginners

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. National BIM Standards. GSA BIM Resource. ArchiCAD vs Revit. ArchiCAD vs Revit. BIM & BEAM. BIM Videos. All Things BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

And they are not bad with their tools; In fact, the ‘A team’ can cook up a pretty cool Revit model in a pretty good time frame. Don’t bother by offering me other, Autodesk-compatible earthworks software, for the one-eyed ArchiCAD agitator I am, this is a race with 2 horses.

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Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Efficient construction delivery methods (IPD – integrated project delivery, JOC – job order contracting), cloud computing, and BIM are all integral components. Symposium Title: Integrating BIM: Moving the Industry Forward. Friday: BIM Academic Education Symposium. Day(s)/Date(s): January 7-11, 2013.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Thursday, December 1, 2011. Still, when I put on the hat of the ‘virtual design manager/construction coordinator’, I go for Archicad.

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Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Efficient construction delivery methods (IPD – integrated project delivery, JOC – job order contracting), cloud computing, and BIM are all integral components. Symposium Title: Integrating BIM: Moving the Industry Forward. Friday: BIM Academic Education Symposium. Day(s)/Date(s): January 7-11, 2013.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

There is no perfect modelling package in AEC, all can do with a bit of Truvy type magic. Archicad has a little gadget within the Trace & Reference command that will allow you to split the screen and slide either up/down or sidewise. Neither could be called an absolute must but oh, so useful when one models at the construction end.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 23, 2011

Ten years ago I amazed the local Archicad supplier by a colourful CV fully prepared on Plotmaker. quite a clumsy plotting tool related-to but not part of Archicad) These days I choose my tools according to what they can do. Photoshop to make textures for my BIM models. A quarter of a century later, I now know better.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 4, 2011

I wrote today’s post (working title: The 2 essential BIM gizmos) and. It needs an ‘entree’ before I can publish: It is about basic modelling: I create a column.* Bring on the BIM gizmos! I used Archicad for this particular exercise; I believe that most other ‘main stream’ AEC modelling packages work in a very similar way;

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 26, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Thursday, July 26, 2012. Why is selling BIM so hard? (an It can’t really be that hard. ► August. (3). ▼ July. (4).

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 24, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Thursday, May 24, 2012. Who needs BIM flowcharts? A bit more of a balance would be nice. Thankfully my work environment is safe.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 11, 2011

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Sunday, December 11, 2011. I found it in Archicad’s Object Depository while searching for something else. To BIM train or not to.

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Revit Beginners

OCTOBER 17, 2006

A builders perspective on BIM. Contractors are starting to take a serious look at the BIM movement. If youre curious about what theyre up to (bim) x is a new blog with a focus on BIM for contractors. Laura Handler is a Building Information Modeller with Tocci Building Corporation. National BIM Standards.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Bulk moving to a different modelling software? for a long time, even before the now fashionable label of ‘BIM agnostic’ was introduced. for a long time, even before the now fashionable label of ‘BIM agnostic’ was introduced. BIM agnostic? Woods Bagot. Did not get the job, unfortunately.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 23, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Monday, April 23, 2012. The entertainment value of BIM. Archicad at its best). Stop shouting: learn BIM instead!

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 9, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Monday, April 9, 2012. Fully model based, fully 2D or hybrid? The entertainment value of BIM. Archicad at its best).

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 14, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Saturday, January 14, 2012.A ‘The battered BIMmer’s syndrome’ $aving with BIM (‘What is this BIM of yours going.

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Revit Beginners

MARCH 26, 2010

Lets say you have a project with worksets enabled and the whole model is on Workset 1 by default. No one else is going to be able to edit ANY modeled elements that are on that workset. or do a save to central and relenquish user-created worksets so other users can work on the model too. National BIM Standards. BIM & BEAM.

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Revit Beginners

JULY 31, 2009

Always Be Phase Aware In every project file your modeled components have a phase created and a phase demolished parameter whether you like it or not. If you place a model component in a view that is set to the New Construction phase (under View Properties), that component automatically gets placed in the New Construction phase.

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Revit Beginners

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

You just linked a developed Revit model into a new project file and you cant seem to find it. If I just imported a project and I cant seem to locate the imported model the first thing I do is setup my radar. Open each view individually and zoom all (ZA) until you find the model you are looking for. National BIM Standards.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 17, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Tuesday, April 17, 2012. The entertainment value of BIM. Archicad at its best). Stop shouting: learn BIM instead!

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Revit Beginners

JUNE 24, 2010

Having built a few parametric families, here is my experience: The dimensions that are variable or can flex need to be modeled before any actual geometry. National BIM Standards. GSA BIM Resource. ArchiCAD vs Revit. ArchiCAD vs Revit. BIM & BEAM. BIM Videos. All Things BIM. CAD vs BIM.

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