Building information modeling for infrastructure: An engineer's perspective
Construction Dive
MAY 19, 2020
Dive deeper into the transportation asset life cycle with Building Information Modeling (BIM) for infrastructure.
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Construction Dive
MAY 19, 2020
Dive deeper into the transportation asset life cycle with Building Information Modeling (BIM) for infrastructure.
Building Information Management
JULY 11, 2016
At the end of there day BIM represents nothing new relative to the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Furthermore, there are critical life-safety and security issues associated with our crumbling and mismanaged physical infrastructure. Any government regulation should be directly solely at Owners.
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Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 20, 2023
Sharing actionable, transparent information with all construction project participants and stakeholders early on, and throughout the construction and operations life-cycle of a built structure, would measurably mitigate change orders, legal disputes, and waste.
Building Information Management
AUGUST 6, 2012
Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment comes down to analyzing large data sets— big data—from several knowledge domains. 3D visualization software products currently promoted as BIM (Building Information Modeling) are not solutions for this task. Big Data for BIM / Efficient Facility Life-cycle Management.
Building Information Management
MARCH 19, 2013
BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management. Consequently, the need for value management emerges. INTRODUCTION.
Building Information Management
JUNE 29, 2016
Asset Competency Model & Efficient Facility Management #101. Until Owners understand and are capable of organizational wide deployment of ASSET COMPETENCY MODELS, productivity across the AEC and Facility Management sector will remain poor. What is an ASSET COMPETENCY MODEL?
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 25, 2013
That said, we are not acting as stakeholders of our built infrastructure. BIM, building information modeling, is defined as the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Waste is rampant in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Building Owner and Operations Sector (AECOO).
Building Information Management
JUNE 20, 2012
Key Topics / Take Aways: Identify and advance technologies, processes, and management practices that improve the performance of federal facilities over their entire life-cycle, from planning to disposal. Requirements for facility life-cycle management, efficient repair/maintenance/sustainability, BIM.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
Building Information Management, Model and Modeling. effectively developing an asset lifecycle process and model from conception to final retirement. Building Information Model: Is the DIGITAL REPRESENTATION of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. B IM / BIM 3.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technologies. . Simply stated, it is a systematic approach to managing cost throughout the life-cycle of any enterprise, program, facility, project, product, or service. , proven methodologies and the latest technology in support of the management process.
Job Order Contracting
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Reduce costs and improve efficiency for buildings and infrastructure projects by consolidating and seamlessly exchanging information throughout the design, procure, build, and operations life-cycle. Information can be contained within 2D drawings, specifications, documents, and Building Information Models (BIM).
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 28, 2018
Building Information Modeling. Building in Cloud utilizes the benefits of BIM (Building Information Modelling), to increase levels of efficiency and collaboration between team members involved in the design, construction and operational phases of the building life-cycle. Asset Information Model.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 16, 2012
BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment support by digital technology. Poor life-cycle management knowledge transfer. Building Information Modeling Framework. The Evolution of AECOO Technology.
Building Information Management
JUNE 13, 2016
Asset Lifecycle Model. Facility / Infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership Management. Life-cycle versus first-cost perspective. The level of collaborative leverage of Competencies and Asset Management Business Processes and Practices determines of effectively an asset’s life-cycle will be managed.
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 20, 2017
LEAN Construction Delivery Methodology, supported by Cloud Construction Project Management, allows all participants and stakeholders to progress beyond the “modeling” and “visualization” capabilities of BIM, to the real-time critical “information” sharing level throughout the life-cycle any form of physical infrastructure.
Job Order Contracting
JUNE 7, 2017
Related Resources: ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management – A framework for facilities life-cycle management. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405. Learn more… [contact-form]. They also select the construction delivery method.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 14, 2017
These benefits are largely derived through the use of a common data environment, CDE, which dramatically improves communication and collaboration throughout the project life-cycle. It provide multiple benefits to all participants and stakeholders. Integrated project delivery method. The Designer”. This, of course, must change to BIM.
Building Information Management
JULY 10, 2012
Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment (BIM) is critical to many/most members of senior management, if just that they don’t know it. Many individuals associate BIM with 3D modeling and construction, vs. “true BIM”, the total cost of ownership management of the built environment. .
Building Information Management
JULY 10, 2012
Efficient life-cycle management of the built environment (BIM) is critical to many/most members of senior management, if just that they don’t know it. Many individuals associate BIM with 3D modeling and construction, vs. “true BIM”, the total cost of ownership management of the built environment. .
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 8, 2017
ASSET LIFE-CYCLE MODEL – Total Cost of Ownership Management – A framework for facilities life-cycle management. Building Information Modelling BIM in the Construction Industry – Technical Report TR-1405. Delivering Better Facilities through Lean Construction and Owner Leadership.
Job Order Contracting
AUGUST 19, 2016
Educational and training programs must focus upon asset life-cycle management and modeling. Overall focus must shift from first-cost mentality to life-cycle/total-cost-of-ownership. Is the JOC slowing the overall deterioration rate of the buildings or infrastructure? Overall trend of KPIs versus time?
Autodesk Construction Cloud
JULY 25, 2023
Not only that, but the fact that there are no conflicts between different versions being worked on by different teams also saves huge amounts of time, stress and rework, says Ahmed Nafea, Building Information Modelling (BIM) manager in Polar Management, the project management arm of Redcon.
Building Information Management
JULY 8, 2016
Life-cycle asset management philosophy. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the integration of disparate competencies, business processes, and technologies to accomplish the efficient life-cycle management of the built environment. Best value procurement. Mutual trust & respect. Continuous improvement. .
Building Information Management
JULY 21, 2016
The fundamental problem with the UK’s BIM Strategy is found within the following quotation “digital technology is changing the way we plan, build, maintain and use our social and economic infrastructure.”(Source: ”(Source: 2015, Level 3 Building Information Modelling – Strategic Plan, HM Government).
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 12, 2013
In order to efficiently manage the life-cycle of the build environment, robust process, terms, and decision support tools are required that deal with physical and functional conditions, costs, priorities, risks, etc. A life-cycle vs. first cost mentality/approach for planning, decision-making, and resource allocation.
Job Order Contracting
MARCH 7, 2017
. – A process whereby contractual agreements are designed, bid, and executed between real property owners and construction contractors for renovation, repair, or new construction services for buildings or any form of physical infrastructure. Services and/or work may include… . They also select the construction delivery method.
Autodesk Construction Cloud
MAY 6, 2022
The Trust are continuously improving their facilities across the site for staff and patients with the NHP team helping to drive the delivery of MKUH’s estates and infrastructure strategy. Developing a data strategy with Building Information Modelling (BIM). Unfortunately, some of the data didn’t exist at all. “
Building Information Management
JANUARY 17, 2012
Both technologies also embed associated business process rules and components which will enable enhanced life-cycle management of the built environment, alignment of structures with organizational mission, and better consideration of general community impacts. Definition of BIM. . BIM can be applied at various levels.
BD+C
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Kingspan panels help earn LEED points for energy modeling, lower energy use, energy intensity, recycled content, and reduction of volatile organic compounds. Every phase of the construction project life cycle presents contractors with opportunities help lower embodied carbon.
Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2012
Per the NIBS Consultative Council there are four areas where our industry needs to focus highlights four in order to improve buildings and infrastructure. Department of Energy, the Institute and others should encourage cities and smaller communities to adopt and enforce updated model codes. Energy and Water Efficiency; and.
Building Information Management
APRIL 26, 2013
This is especially important to any organization dependent upon its facilities and infrastructure to support and maintain its core mission. BIM is the life cycle management of the built environment, supported by digital technology. Cloud computing is also a disruptive technology, and it’s one that impacts several areas.
Building Information Management
MAY 16, 2013
Building Information Modeling, BIM, is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. However, life-cycle and/or ongoing facility management using BIM? Let’s face it, BIM continues to languish. No so much.
Building Information Management
JULY 21, 2016
The fundamental problem with the UK’s BIM Strategy is found within the following quotation “digital technology is changing the way we plan, build, maintain and use our social and economic infrastructure.”(Source: ”(Source: 2015, Level 3 Building Information Modelling – Strategic Plan, HM Government).
Job Order Contracting
JANUARY 10, 2021
These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Life-cycle Management 101. BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Building Information Model: The DIGITAL REPRESENTATION of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.
BD+C
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Rendering courtesy Sasaki In Greece, the decommissioning of the original Athens International Airport presented an opportunity to transform obsolete infrastructure into a resilient and high-performance landscape. The future of building cities lies in adaptive reuse and the continuity of infrastructure.
Natural Building
JUNE 16, 2021
Witchcliffe Ecovillage in Western Australia will serve as home to around 700 people and be a model of sustainability for communities worldwide. Houses are subject to life cycle and thermal assessments and are required to be carbon negative and use natural materials such as timber, stone, hempcrete, and straw bale.
Building Information Management
APRIL 8, 2013
This is especially important to any organization dependent upon its facilities and infrastructure to support and maintain its core mission. BIM is the life cycle management of the built environment, supported by digital technology. ” It is perhaps helpful to define cloud computing in terms of its benefits.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
Well, expectedly, the clue is in the title: constructing a managed digital information 3D model of an asset (interesting as 3D is NOT in the title), be it a building or an infrastructure project (both new-build or retained estate) that is infused with data.
Building Information Management
JULY 12, 2016
It they were, physical infrastructure (buildings, roads, bridges, utilities, … ) deferred maintenance wouldn’t be continuing to climb AND construction would not still be one of the least productive industries of all. Are facilities and infrastructure core to your organization? Asset modeling. Good luck with that.
Building Information Management
JULY 12, 2016
It they were, physical infrastructure (buildings, roads, bridges, utilities, … ) deferred maintenance wouldn’t be continuing to climb AND construction would not still be one of the least productive industries of all. Are facilities and infrastructure core to your organization? Asset modeling. Good luck with that.
Building Information Management
JULY 16, 2012
Per the NIBS Consultative Council there are four areas where our industry needs to focus highlights four in order to improve buildings and infrastructure. Department of Energy, the Institute and others should encourage cities and smaller communities to adopt and enforce updated model codes. Energy and Water Efficiency; and.
Building Information Management
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Sharing actionable, transparent information with all construction project participants and stakeholders early on, and throughout the construction and operations life-cycle of a built structure, would measurably mitigate change orders, legal disputes, and waste.
Building Radar
JULY 15, 2020
This is also because, for example, the use of the digital application “Building Information Modeling” (BIM) will be mandatory for public infrastructure projects in Germany from this year onwards. In our article, we have already described 20 construction industry trends to watch in 2020.Today The idea of Building 4.0
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