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Essential BIM Terminology

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Often just considered 3D design, building information modeling (BIM) also acts as a collaborative work platform. Asset Information Model (AIM). The asset information model is a maintained information model used to manage, control, and operate a respective asset. Project Information Model (PIM).

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5 Critical Construction Project Reports your System Should Pull Without Fuss

Viewpoint Construction Technology

You’ll also need a general ledger model that supports inter-company transactions and hierarchical reporting across business units and entities. A modern system will also have integrated contract valuation capabilities (which results in auto-generated work-in-progress accounting entries).

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Lean facility management with the Kanban system

Lets Build

The Kanban method was officially defined in 2007 as a model for the computing industry. It splits a project or process into three distinct stages: requested, in progress, and done. Staff is requisitioned from other roles to perform hasty reparatory work, creating an unmanageable volume of work in progress.

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Sharing the Advance Steel Roadmap

BIM & Beam

There’s a lot more work going on behind the scenes and this roadmap doesn’t reflect everything the development teams are working on. When we can, we’ll also share videos that illustrate some of the work-in-progress software. Roadmaps are plans, not promises.

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The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment

Construction Business Owner

The New Preconstruction Advantage: Connected Quantification & Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment. This enables teams to recover margins when rework is reduced and improve the quality of construction models — all before breaking ground. Perform 2D/3D takeoffs & BIM coordination in a single software solution. Greg Ragsdale.

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BIM Pioneers: From 2D to 3D with Rodio Swissboring

Autodesk Construction Cloud

“Previously, communicating about this activity would have been done over emails and phone calls which was time consuming in itself, but now we do it collaboratively in real-time during the meeting using the model and Autodesk Construction Cloud is a tool which helps us find solutions,” adds Jeyling.

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BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma | ENR.

ENR Construction

The VEO platform helps project teams work inside complex 3D models on project delivery. VEO works across multiple devices. based Newforma, says with the VEO license, customers can view and navigate 3D building models without the need for the underlying software or authoring tools that were used to generate the model.

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