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Current and Future Use of BIM – 2013 – UK

Building Information Management

The study centered upon the development of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the UK construction industry and its pontential affect on the role of the client’s construction manager (CM). BIM in the UK was not as advanced as claimed in the literature. The combination of culture and technology makes BIM unique.

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The sixth category: BIM as a parasite

DebunkTheBIM

Flatcad was first called CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Drafting and Manufacture) then it lost the CAM when Architecture started to claim ownership, but added another D for Design. CADD); BIM was not always BIM either. My suggestion: Put two little ‘m’s in front of BIM Meaningful and measurable

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Aussie_BIM vs the UK_BIM, AKA the global BIM leaders (When and why had Graphisoft given up on their Australian ArchiCAD users?)

DebunkTheBIM

Let me just mention a few basic points that come to mind: · For example the work of prof Mark Burry: he moved to Melbourne in the mid 1990s – by then a visible and globally respected BIM figure. See, once upon a time, some decade or so ago – BIM (or VC) and Graphisoft (with ArchiCAD) were doing very well in Australia (and New Zealand)!

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BIMocrisy: forgive me; I have no patience to tolerate it at this level any more.

DebunkTheBIM

How on earth can an architectural company claim any type of BIM-enablement when they can’t get their 2D areas right? Any old architectural firm could be asked to prepare a quick study of possible future space-uses in a highly complex job for one of the world’s most prestigious clients and to get it wrong.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

The JOC LEAN Integrated Project Delivery Method as well as, Integrated Project Delivery, IPD, and BIM, are dependent upon a CDE to drive collaboration and minimize error, omissions, and miscommunication. At detailed line item level, an example being the CSI Masterformat data architecture. This, of course, must change to 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. This paper does not claim that total cost of building is not important, but what it claimed is that, the value of projects does not ends with the consideration of the cost alone. 12004 pp9-19 ISSN 0969-9988. Kiyoyuki, K., Sugisaki, K.,

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The case for architects with no hands – or why can’t the young of the AEC industry be successful without wanting to hand-sketch?

DebunkTheBIM

And scarily, this is one of the few statements that both the academia and the leaders of the industry (specially the architectural part of it) tend to agree on. After all, architecture develops in the head and hand sketching is one tool to help, but just one, of many. I am ‘a classically’ trained architect.