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Stay Home Learn BIM: week 3 – Be wary of the Bully BIM! (bonus Easter Egg Hunt)

DebunkTheBIM

There is one type of BIM, that I call the Bully BIM. It is a bit of a ‘below-the-belt punch’ kind of BIM approach. Those reports shoot the entire BIM movement in its foot and make building modelling as a field look dumb. It is called ‘Clash Detection’. At its essence, it is a well-intended concept. And it doesn’t.

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Bullied by BIM? Fight back! Go paperfree!

DebunkTheBIM

Despite BIM having been around for 3+ decades, it is by no means embraced by the global AEC. There is a thin layer of participants that push the idea for various reasons (usually superficial), and there are people (in a very small minority) that practice it wholeheartedly. (my my respect is with them). And then, there is the rest.

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The tale of two BIM-stillborns and the relativity of time in developing global BIM to a useful level

DebunkTheBIM

Then, there is Facebook that reminds me regularly of the ‘good ideas’ I had 5+ years ago. Many based on and around BIM. Recently came up two of my (I believe) better ideas, that never made it past planning – one dreamed up 4 years ago, the other more than 10 (years). BTW the question above is a definition of ‘full BIM’ for me.

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DebunkTheBIM: Have you got any idea how silly you look and sound?

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Saturday, May 19, 2012. Have you got any idea how silly you look and sound? Who needs BIM flowcharts? at 1:28 AM. Email This BlogThis! .

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Behind the Build: Interview with Chris Walker, VDC Project Manager at PENTA Building Group

Autodesk Construction Cloud

People with successful careers possess many admirable qualities, but one common denominator that these folks have is their willingness to push themselves out of their comfort zone. As for me, I’m in the VDC department, specializing in construction management, BIM, and construction technology.

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Transforming Project Delivery with Pure Salmon

Autodesk Construction Cloud

From Norway and France to the United Arab Emirates, Brunei, Japan and the United States, their teams must connect and collaborate across geographies and time zones. Thinking back to our first planning session, a lot of our pain points and challenges led us to propose ideas on things we’d like to see and achieve on these projects.

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BIMocrisy: forgive me; I have no patience to tolerate it at this level any more.

DebunkTheBIM

How on earth can an architectural company claim any type of BIM-enablement when they can’t get their 2D areas right? Could someone please introduce them to the idea of integrated schedules? And keep them out of BIM until they do learn to use them? Let’s not name names. It could happen to anyone, really.

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