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BIM for Seniors

DebunkTheBIM

BIM had become the main communication vehicle for AEC. After all, most construction contracts are still based on drawings and there is a belief that ‘we build off drawings’. Yet it is undisputable, that a large percentage of those drawings are created in a model-based software.

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How BIM Helps General Contractors Win More Business

Construction Business Owner

How BIM Helps General Contractors Win More Business. One technology in particular—building information modeling (BIM)—is leading the way. BIM is an intelligent, 3D model-based process that helps general contractors become more accurate and efficient. Why BIM Is the Key to Staying Competitive With Owners. Greg Ragsdale.

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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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Overheard in the Big Room: The Future of BIM Across the Lifecycle   

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While humans have been engineering architectural feats for thousands of years, traditional drawings are often siloed, stagnant, and vulnerable to rapid obsolescence. . Building information modeling (BIM) is set to change all that, its revolutionary goal since the 1970s when it was first proposed. BIM in the Big Room .

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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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From Two Months to Two Weeks: Saint Gobain’s Efficiency Gains with Autodesk’s BIM Collaborate

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Our main issue in the design process came when we had to integrate our designs, which were developed in different tools,” says John. Effective collaboration soon became insufficient, so Saint Gobain approached the Autodesk Construction Cloud team to explore solutions which would address their challenges and support BIM delivery.

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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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