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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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BIM US – Continues to Flounder – 4 Reason Why

Building Information Management

Life-cycle management and total cost of ownership of the built environment are not understood, nor taught in schools or the professional sector the most part. BIM remains 3d visualization centered. BIM remains 3d visualization centered. A BIM Ontology is non-existent.

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BIM and Cloud Computing – Get Beyond 3D Visualization and Focus Upon the “I”

Building Information Management

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.

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

Building Information Management

We need to stop talking less about “the model” and more about “the data” “One participant noted a recent US comparative diagram mapping CAD adoption in the 1980s and recent BIM adoption.

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Forget BIM, Forget ISO…

Job Order Contracting

Many owners in fact have been “distracted” by the 3D visualization aspects of BIM, rather then focus upon an integrated management approach that truly enables the transparent control of time, costs, and quality of work. If you want to find out how all this can become a reality for your organization, simply contact us.

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Integrated project delivery method

Job Order Contracting

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. Finally, complementing and adding the information is in the life-cycle physical asset model is simplified using a CDE.

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What is BIM?

Building Information Management

Hard to believe…perhaps to some… but many /most of us in the Architecture, Construction, Owners, Operations sector still don’t know how to define BIM. BIM Definition – Short – The life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology.

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