DebunkTheBIM

JULY 28, 2013

Following my post where I questioned the logic of the ‘BIM Maturity Plan’ adopted by the UK Government, many people felt the need to quickly put me right. They are just being jealous, for not having thought of it first, ‘it’ being whatever you like ‘it’ to be when it comes to BIM. This is an extremely long bow to draw.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

Document templates are updated to pull this within generated documentation. With New Project Frequency Defaults project members can tailor their email notifications to their preference. Manual trigger allows users to review and fix any issues with payment application before it proceeds in the defined workflow.

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DebunkTheBIM

AUGUST 31, 2017

Many based on and around BIM. This time thing, that we were doing things 10+ (If not 20) years ago that others nowadays call new and revolutionary brings me to the topic I really wanted to write about, and that is ‘how important time is (or is not) in getting BIM really working within this industry?’ Nothing less.

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Building Information Management

AUGUST 30, 2013

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. BIM in the UK was not as advanced as claimed in the literature.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

MARCH 9, 2023

Doxa allows contractors to manage their construction projects from end to end, empowering them to stay on top of project status, budget, progress claims, and invoices. Users can now embed Doxa Connex directly in Autodesk Build Insights or BIM 360 Project Home dashboards.

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NH Construction Law

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Over the past decade, Building Information Modeling (“BIM”) – computerized 3D portrayal of integrated building elements that allows a project or project subset to be built virtually before being built in the field – has become prolific in commercial construction. This is not your father’s CAD system.

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Building Information Management

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

When discussing BIM with those yet to take it up the topic of Intellectual Property invariably comes up. It is so important to them it comes across as a major reason they are not using BIM (although I suspect it is more of an excuse). IP and BIM PROCESS. In the BIM context if everyone shares everyone benefits.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 16, 2015

There’s been a great little ‘article’ circling the web recently, claiming ‘How Building Information Modeling Saved One University $10 Million’. Let me make it clear, I do not question the ability and capability of BIM to save money, time or other resources. C’mon – no harm done really’ – tell me my friends and fellow BIM enthusiasts.

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DebunkTheBIM

AUGUST 3, 2015

As someone that had weathered one or two of those storms in my professional lifetime, where some blizzards I escaped only by a narrow margin, as well a BIM enthusiast – I take a special interest in observing how well various BIM initiatives do, when the dial of the industry heads South, as it seems to be doing now, again.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 26, 2014

Some sophisticated Cloud Document Management systems claim to have solved the issue by focusing on the even bigger issue with PDFs that is managing the quantities they tend to be coming in. Could the problem be in lack of interest from Adobe to step up its offering for the AEC or are there some other reasons behind the scenes?

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DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The long overdue third instalment of my ‘The role of PDFs in BIM’ trilogy Let me start with a long-winded explanation on, how this post is not supposed to be an argument based on the question of ‘why would one want to import one (or hundreds) of PDF file(s) into any working BIM model?’. Revit is the King 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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

MMA offers this opportunity to any/all contractors unsure about the risks they had taken on when they entered these BIM-weighted contracts to manage those risks wisely and get themselves back onto their ‘front foot’ with the MTR.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 12, 2020

While technology vendors (BIM, CMMS, CAFM, IWMS…) often claim to have solutions, the reality is that fundamental process change is the only path to significant improvement with respect to physical asset life-cycle management. The significant negative economic and environmental impacts has been well documented.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 19, 2011

Prescriptive/Specification-based BIM.” I do advocate for building owners to employ independent BIM advisors. Would call an end to bluffing and document stuffing that is going on now. This concept is not new (roles of clerks-of-works fall in here, so do in house design and project managers’) and it does not necessary need BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 18, 2013

One very much-liked claim of BIM promoters is that BIM enables designing architects to be better at what they do. They often use Frank Gehry, the poster boy of the ‘brilliantly creative’ as an example of someone that made those whimsical, awkwardly beautiful buildings he is famous for, purely thanks to BIM.

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Building Information Management

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The most significant value of BIM is to Owners and the associated collaboration among Owners, AEs, Contractors, Subs, Building Users, Oversight Groups, … 2. There appears to be no specific definition of BIM. 71% of larger GC’s claim to have “expert level” BIM capabilities. … 4.

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DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Friday, November 25, 2011. I’ve been aggressively campaigning against BIM outsourcing-companies lately. Reply Delete Add comment Load more.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 21, 2012

BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma. Autodesks Acquisition of Vela Systems Puts Mobile BIM On Fast Track. -- Advertising --. This is a major trend in project delivery: deploying platforms that achieve true BIM-in-the-cloud functionality, including generative capacity, he says. Photo Contest Archives. Slideshows.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 20, 2011

Can BIM help the building that is hard to lay-out? I consider model based documenting to be the foundation-stone to anyBIM, and claim: YES. I hope to reignite your interest in the concept of ‘picture-book-documenting”. Ideal for sausage, giraffe and other shaped buildings.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 14, 2015

Should documentation that is based on a coordinated 3D digital model be charged at a higher price than straight CAD-ed one is? Should a client have the right to choose one over the other without wanting to pay for a full blown BIM? I.e. it is cheaper this way. Is it also slower?

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The BIMmer’s block is a condition that similarly ranges in difficulty from coming up with original BIM ideas to being unable to produce any BIM-related work for years. Signs have been there for a while, that I was likely to hit some sort of a BIM-bottom. The mandating of BIM by various clients, governments, countries.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 4, 2015

Yet, I will not spend much time on explaining the difference between Real and Pretend BIM. I have long given up on BIM and on the professional integrity of the global AEC. Not that the ‘Pretend BIM’, alive and kicking and moving from strength to strength is much worried about me not supporting it. Give BIM a chance?

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 1, 2013

This statement and accompanying question originates from my observation that the majority of authors writing/talking on BIM these days spend very little time/effort in presenting robust evidence on the results of BIM , rather, they tend to jump into the ‘thick of it’, focusing on the ‘how-s’ and ‘what-with-s’. No, BIM: works.

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Fieldwire

APRIL 11, 2022

Misinterpretation of plans and specifications – work is not installed in accordance with construction documents, or documents may be not clear or current. Many firms claim to have quality management systems in place, but when put to the test, might struggle to pass a routine quality audit.

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DebunkTheBIM

AUGUST 29, 2013

Put simply, see us as the private investigators of the AEC industry; When commissioned we prepare a report for our clients, based on the documents, so that they can see exactly what they are buying (or selling) both technically and financially, and make informed choices. We have honed our skills working in many regions of the world.

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DebunkTheBIM

AUGUST 3, 2013

Of course not everyone sees this as a ‘just war’ and quickly I get to be considered as someone that claims to know the answers to everything. I sure believe to deserve the title of ‘the Queen’, ‘The Queen of knowing just-about-everything that does not work in BIM’. It’s a tough world out there in the current BIM world…'

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Where did we get with this ‘BIM’ thing? Many clever heads before me have recognised publicly and documented widely that the AEC industry is a highly inefficient and clumsy beast. Promoters of BIM like to brush this ‘little problem’ aside. Should everyone in AEC contemplate employing BIM? Absolutely!

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 14, 2017

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. This, of course, must change to BIM. Owners are becoming increasingly focused on demanding more value. The Contractor”.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

No, I am genuinely interested, how all the entities claiming to be doing BIM models built-off other parties’ 2D outputs are able to satisfy themselves that the 3D model is the accurate representation of the drawings. This is the question I drive everyone nuts-with around work. Not that it can’t be done, but is it practical?

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DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Friday, November 18, 2011. Even seasoned BIM-mers shy away from the idea that BIM could grow exponentially if this question was taken seriously.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Search for BIM in AEC – and you’ll find the concept “paper based” mentioned often as the problem that needs to be overcome to DO BIM; I disagree. Strictly speaking, aiming for a ‘paperless’ project is not the answer for the BIM question. Look up my post on the PictureBook Documenting. Are you BIM ready?

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DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 14, 2011

I talked previously about the irony of CAD managers (preventing ‘Flatcad grow up and move on’) being put in charge to herald in the ‘new’ (BIM) approach; There is another paradox the industry can claim: Buildings get documented by building documenters. I’ll tell you about A3 based ‘picture book documenting’ tomorrow.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 22, 2011

Finding this definition was a sad discovery for me – “Predictive Modelling” is a perfect description for a concept within BIM, yet not well-explored but with significant potential. IT, the insurance industry, archaeology and marketing have all put their pretty-paws on this terminology already but cannot claim exclusivity.

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I got hooked very early on the idea of using the power of computers to assist the profession in design, documentation and construction management. While the documentation part converted to its electronic equivalent ‘relatively’ painlessly, the idea of designing with no free hand sketching and paper involved, was an absolute no-no for most.

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Building Information Management

MARCH 19, 2013

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. All the relevant information regarding the development of a project must be documented, as this will later be presented to the clients as evidence. DISCUSSION.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This month, we have more than 35 product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud platform and products, including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Takeoff, ProEst, BuildingConnected, Assemble, and BIM 360.

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