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Asset Life-cycle Model, Asset Information Model, and Why BIM Won’t Work

Building Information Management

At the end of there day BIM represents nothing new relative to the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Sure, software firms, and folks that love 3D and make a living from it will tell you otherwise, but the simple truth is that BIM, as we now know it, can not and will not survive.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. The recent increase in demand for sustainable or green buildings is further making the consideration of life cycle cost an issue.

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Life-cycle management of the built environment – To BIM or Not to BIM?

Building Information Management

Buildings, roads, dams, electrical grids… are with us for a very long time and linked to the success and failure of just about everything… education, health, national security, transportation, habitat, sustainability, national and local economies and more. That said, we are not acting as stakeholders of our built infrastructure.

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Where will BIM / Efficient Life-cycle Management Supported by Digital Technology Be in Five Years

Building Information Management

As one might expect topics encompassed; design, procurement, policy and standards, technology, education and culture, success to date, areas for innovation, challenges, and barriers to adoption. Perhaps most importantly the topic of education rose front and center: “It was agreed that this community also needs to escape from its silos.

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How Construction Data Skills Are Being Taught in School

Autodesk Construction Cloud

These soon-to-be industry-newcomers are acquiring the skills for data management in educational institutions across the world. Below you’ll find highlights from our recent interviews with educators at Birmingham City University (BCU), University College London (UCL), and Technology University Dublin (TU Dublin).

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for Facilities Management – Forget BIM!

Building Information Management

Traditional proprietary software applications are dead or dying. Virtually every software application you will use in the near future will be some form of “plug-in” to your public, private, or hybrid cloud. BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology.

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3D BIM – An Unfortunate Distraction?

Building Information Management

The value of BIM lies in the support of efficient life-cycle facility management processes supported by common terms and digital technology. The 3D visualization aspect of BIM is little more than an unfortunate distraction. How do we educate people for BIM? When will BIM become mainstream?

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