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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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We Answer your Questions on Managing 2D Workflows and Drawings in Autodesk Construction Cloud 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

A recent industry research report , jointly released by Deloitte and Autodesk, found that only 40 percent of construction businesses in the APAC region use BIM. Q3: If a construction firm in Singapore is dealing with projects overseas (e.g., Many users are using this function to complete the signature on drawings.

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What Are As Built Drawings?

Autodesk Construction Cloud

If a picture can speak a thousand words, in a project, as-built drawings can speak a thousand construction processes. Nonetheless, as-built drawings remain an essential process in a project, especially to maintain a project’s lifecycle after construction has ended. . Shop drawing changes. Key Takeaways. What Is an “As-Built?” .

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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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Can one trust a BIM-mer, that is not personally practicing ‘paperfree’?

DebunkTheBIM

Why would the good character or even the BIM knowledge of a person be undermined by a paper-notebook and a pen? Or a stack of A3 drawings? None of the above should be an embracement to those actively promoting BIM? No, let’s draw the line in the sand! but not on paper…oh, what a feeble pun) You BIM? Surely, not?

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The lifecycle of a detail – BIM and butterflies

DebunkTheBIM

And I mean, everything, getting IFC drawings, as-builts, shop-drawings, or magical, know it all 3-7D (+) models. Then, likely the pieces will be designed by a specialist subcontractor, who will prepare connection shop drawings for someone to approve. That sentence I just wrote, is a mouthful, but do read it again.

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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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