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BIM for Seniors

DebunkTheBIM

BIM had become the main communication vehicle for AEC. Now, many in the industry will be quick to dispute the first claim. After all, most construction contracts are still based on drawings and there is a belief that ‘we build off drawings’. Yet it is a language that only a small percentage of the industry speaks.

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BIM is dead, please do not resuscitate!

DebunkTheBIM

If there are similar rules for establishing viable crops of BIM around the global AEC industry, they’re better be longer than 30 years. Even a decade or so ago, I could see that BIM was nothing like an emerging success story. May I call them BIM-doom-deniers?

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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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PDFs and BIM: A trilogy of posts investigating what the PDF format’s role may be in strategies transitioning the industry to BIM? First part: PDFs within current AEC – Important yet neglected?

DebunkTheBIM

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. It is being treated as something one puts up with until something better comes along.

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BIM IP

Building Information Management

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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Grilled Salmon in Grape Leaves and should the UK Governments’ dabble in BIM?

DebunkTheBIM

When a person has been working with BIM for a long time – s/he is likely to develop the habit of extensive use of allegories. For example, when I explain the difference between ‘informative’ and ‘instructive’ DRAWINGs I usually still get somewhere… but, when I try to apply the same concept to digital models – I almost always draw a blank.

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