ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In a dispute heading for arbitration, a hospital mechanical and HVAC subcontractor claims design errors revealed by a BIM model drove costs way above the bid price, placing the company in peril.

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Modeling BIM US Claims 63

Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

This month, we have 20+ product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud platform and products including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, BuildingConnected, ProEst, and BIM 360. And because your time is valuable, we don’t need you to sweat the details. As always, transmitting is based on folder permissions.

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Autodesk BIM Construction Visualization 111

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 18, 2018

When it comes to BIM, the industry seems to split neatly over two groups: One, a tiny one is made up of those that publicly accept to know absolutely nothing about BIM and are happy to stay as such. The other, a significantly larger group consist of almost everyone else and they are the ones that know ‘everything’ about BIM.

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BIM Drawings Documentation Modeling 62

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 7, 2017

If you are, or have been involved with BIM in any sort of form, move past the cheesy headline of this post and think: are you truly confident that this ‘BIM’ thing is working? After all, there almost never are two projects available with exactly the same set of base conditions, done in parallel, one with and one without BIM.

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BIM Claims Software Software 70

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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BIM Modeling IDEA Industrial 48

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. Hold back the vitriol, all publicity is good publicity for BIM.

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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. The combination of culture and technology makes BIM unique.

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BIM Modeling Autodesk Estimating 65

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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Autodesk BIM Construction Visualization 59

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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BIM Modeling Drawings Agreement 40

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 13, 2011

I like to put this concept on its head with the following claim: 3D navigation elements are left-off intentionally (2D often too) to ‘blindfold’ the user/interpreter of the information. A client (or a contractor) viewing a 3D model without obvious spatial references has no choice but to focus on the superficial.

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Modeling BIM Claims Contractors 48

Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Have you encountered or used building information modeling (BIM) on any of your projects? Are you interested in BIM but don''t know where to begin? BIM seems to highly regarded by those who have made the transition. But BIM may not be suited for all projects, or all construction professionals.

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BIM Documentation Change Orders Plans 48

DebunkTheBIM

JULY 3, 2017

Sometimes, I find that the most useless word, when discussing BIM implementation strategies, is the word ‘useful’. People tend to over use it to justify ‘playing with BIM’. A small percentage of people on projects do activities that can be loosely called BIM and loosely qualified as ‘useful’. And the sky is blue.

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BIM Environment Innovation IDEA 60

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The whole ‘BIM thing’ has been trying to change this trend, entice the elite of the young thinkers, the cream of the technology developers and together shake the industry through innovation into a new, cool force to reckon with. Unfortunately, this ‘BIM thing’ has been anything but successful. 10%, 20%, 90%?

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BIM ArchiCAD Claims Modeling 48

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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BIM ArchiCAD CAD Claims 59

DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Chance would also have it, I got into BIM at a sort of early (professional) age and got hooked on it some 20+ years ago. I had to decide, if I was a Design Manager or a BIM Manager. A BIM enabled (literate) Design Manager is, like someone that speaks an extra language. Someone that can model, to verify the design works.

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BIM Management Design Drawings 90

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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BIM Life Cycle Modeling Contractors 40

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 27, 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, November 27, 2011. Breaking down the doors to construction modelling. Breaking down the doors to construction modelling.

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Modeling Austin BIM Construction 48

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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BIM ArchiCAD Modeling Revit 48

DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 1, 2017

From the point of big BIM success stories, this was meant to be the big year, the one delivering the UK-spearheaded, Government Mandated ‘solve-it-all’ BIM. So, here we are: For numerous years Governments internationally have been targeted as the possible biggest beneficiaries of the ‘mainstream’ BIM pushed by the shiny-suits.

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BIM Risk Infrastructure Modeling 55

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 22, 2011

by which a model is created or chosen to try to best predict the probability of an outcome.” 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. states Wikipedia. An idea too far out?

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Modeling BIM Insurance Claims 48

Building Information Management

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The issue, of course is that there is NO “industry tested and approved level” RICS has announced a BIM Manager Certification. While BIM is far from a “standard” the certification is an attempt to define and evaluate the proficiencies of construction professionals with respect to BIM (Building Information Modelling).

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Certification BIM Claims Employment 45

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 29, 2014

Answer: A VA-BIM is a Male/Female, 35+ old, QS professional that has had (some) ‘exposure to BIM systems for quantification’. This could be good news for the BIM campaigners active in the region. It is a large project, blessed with an elaborately spec’d, mandated BIM. Or a BIM expert. But not both.

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BIM Subcontracting Management Industrial 48

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. or modelling purely for interpretation). Breaking down the doors to construction modelling. at 4:45 AM.

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Modeling BIM Claims Documentation 48

DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 3, 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, March 3, 2012. BIM surveys. Requests to participate in BIM-related surveys. Labels: BIM surveys. BIM surveys.

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BIM Deals Claims Foundation 48

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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BIM Modeling Design Drawings 50

ENR Construction

AUGUST 21, 2012

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BIM Autodesk Modeling Revit 65

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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BIM ArchiCAD AutoCAD Industrial 48

DebunkTheBIM

MAY 11, 2013

The ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’; the final sledgehammer, is (HMG) UK Government’s BIM initiative that I’ve engrossed myself with lately. As foretold, I made a thorough study of the ‘Report for the Government Construction Client Group Building Information Modelling (BIM) Working Party Strategy Paper’.

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BIM Claims Documentation News 48

DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I copped a bit of flack when I wrote in my blog recently about the status of the UK BIM being the ‘rarefied bubble of advanced best (BIM) practice’ – even though I dutifully quoted the original source of the claim. I love the world ‘challenge’ – it so often is associated with BIM.

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BIM Claims IDEA Modeling 58

DebunkTheBIM

JULY 27, 2017

People with BIM interests (but not necessary practice) like to muse on the ‘BIG questions’ of this field, like if this ‘BIM’ thing is a revolution or an evolution, a positive or negative disruption, the savior or the re-definer of the industry. In BIM circlers anyway. To achieve a real, punching BIM capability, go paperless!

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BIM CAD Negotiation Statistics 48

DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 6, 2011

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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BIM CAD Drafting Claims 48

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. Newer Post. Older Post.

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BIM Modeling US Autodesk 48

DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I am stirring up trouble (again), really, this BIM has been around for quite some time and the various groups of direct/or indirect purchasers targeted for services/products that fall under BIM are anything but queuing up to have them; Why is that?

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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. 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

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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BIM Contractors Bidding Documentation 53

DebunkTheBIM

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

On Sunday, August the 25 th this year, within this blog I published the third instalment of the story I like to refer to as the ‘HK MTR BIM experiment’. An external consultant was hired to assist with the implementation of this non-complying BIM and engaged over a lengthy period of time. · Missed and/or ignored. ·

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BIM Risk Contract Claims 48

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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