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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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Debunking another BIM myth: FM enabled BIM models do not automatically pop out of Construction BIM models

DebunkTheBIM

For years I’ve been consistently preaching that BIM can be started at any point of a construction project lifecycle and it can be successful. In all mainstream BIM strategies, FM models sit at the end of the chain of Ds – numbered from the 6 th D onwards, following the 3 spatial Ds, cost and time.

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When a BIM-mer looks for a new job.

DebunkTheBIM

It is not the same for a BIM-mer to look for a new job, as it is for an architect, for example. Yes, it is easier in a way, BIM-mers are ‘doers’ – can earn their keep even in the toughest of times, while architects. No such luck is afforded for jobless and newly re-employed BIM-mers. A sad state of affairs for BIM.

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Classes for Field Teams at AU 2023

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Typically, a team might track installations by highlighting a drawing in Bluebeam, entering numbers into a spreadsheet every day in the project office, or even using colored pencils on a hard-copy drawing. BCCI) and Leica Geosystems present how two industry partners go about providing BIM-to-field integration of concrete construction.

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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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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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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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