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Behind the Build: Interview with Mostafa Saber, BIM & Design Manager at Diamond Developers

Autodesk Construction Cloud

We sat down with Mostafa Saber , BIM & Design Manager at Diamond Developers as he walked us through his career journey, the challenges he faces while modernising and his vision for the future of construction. By 2007, I was introduced to BIM and started to prefer 3D modelling over 2D. From then, there was no looking back.

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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? A language that its host industry does not speak.

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There are two types of BIM in existence, but only one of them money can buy!

DebunkTheBIM

The digital, 3D+ based approach to creating and managing AEC information is usually called BIM. It has numerous other names as well, the latest, favored by many is the ‘Digital Twin’, I, for the sake of consistency, like to stick to ‘BIM’. The first is the Group of Self-Contained BIM exercises, the second are the Life-Style BIMs.

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BIM for building owners

DebunkTheBIM

Of course, I’m pleased when owners ask for BIM. Apart from the colour their BIM specifications bring into the dullness of my daily work, these ARE signs of the BIM-thing moving somewhere. I have the pleasure to deal with the back end of the BIM specifications, i.e. those written with the contractor in mind.

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First Openly Anti (mainstream) BIM-Book on the Market!

DebunkTheBIM

I wrote: ‘considering’, not that it is a done deal yet. First Openly Anti (mainstream) BIM-Book on the Market! Feeling uneasy about the globally spreading BIM craze? Suffering from lack of alternatives to wholeheartedly embrace the BIM mantras and are left searching unsuccessfully for more balanced strategies to follow?

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A SPECTACULAR BIM OFFER at a fraction of a price! Exclusively for the UAE and for a very limited time only!

DebunkTheBIM

In conjunction with this initiative and taking into account my personal circumstances, I am using this opportunity to offer up my skills for any UAE based contractor or AEC client impacted by this new rule; My offer is: A world class BIM service delivered by myself working as an employee based in their Dubai – or other UAE office.

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Who are the ‘A list-ers’ of the ‘Society of High BIM Maturity’?

DebunkTheBIM

(or, is there any relation between the ‘factually’ very low level of BIM-maturity of the industry and the aggressive buy-outs happening in the AEC’s consultancy-field?) Recently, on a well-attended BIM group’s discussion site, I re-floated my view that the UK Government has little idea on what BIM really is, or should be like.

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