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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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The future of specifiers: The way forward

Construction Specifier

They see trends toward integrating information better, both with building information modeling (BIM) and drawings, and between teammates. He sees reliance on the full-time specifier continuing, but bridges being built slowly between that person and the drawings.

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In the event of an emergency (recession), first ditch BIM.

DebunkTheBIM

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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Roll in Investigative BIM!

DebunkTheBIM

They apply BIM approach to questions which are of interest to the legal system but also to maintain a digital, modelbased ‘mirror’ against contractual drawings to report the STATUS of the information; Don’t confuse investigative BIM services with clash detection, they are poles apart. Your time is coming!

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How ITC Reduces Construction Disruptions and Delays With Digital Transformation

Autodesk Construction Cloud

On top of the challenges presented by relying on 2D design and pre-construction drawings on AutoCAD , ITC’s biggest challenge was improving the visualisation of projects from the first step to the final product. Among the solutions used are BIM 360 Docs and Assemble. Automated quantity take-off of MEP elements from BIM model. “We

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Give ‘Real BIM’ a chance to be a Game-changer in AEC! ‘Real BIM’ could be the weapon for changing the game in the global AEC. There still are small fish with professional integrity surviving within the global waters of the AEC consultancy market wanting to strike back against the over-franchisers, purely business oriented BIG fish practising ‘Pretend BIM’ and redefine how the AEC is run; Real BIM could be the answer.

DebunkTheBIM

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. Call me arrogant.

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Zero Fluff Policy (ZFP) – an alternative to the British Government’s way of mandating BIM on AEC projects

DebunkTheBIM

The British Government got it all wrong with regards to its plan to use BIM to fix-up its ailing AEC industry. Most of BIM commentators, even those a bit remote from that particular market and ones that are normally prepared to be a bit cynical of ‘artificially pumped up BIM hype’ appear to find this government’s actions to be all positive.

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