Skanska UK has announced a strategic partnership with BIMobject®, which is a significant step forward in its building information modelling (BIM) strategy. Skanska’s award-winning approach to BIM has been recognised throughout the construction industry. The partnership will enable more collaborative working between Skanska and its supply chain… read full article
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Geospatial + BIM and full lifecycle building management
Over 50% of the cost of maintaining a building is what is called operations and maintenance which is comprised of administration, maintenance and repairs, and restoration projects. In most building construction projects, even if BIM is used for design and construction, the building information (specifications, submittal information including equipment and performance data and warranties, finished information, O&M manuals, panel schedules, and the building control system) required for operations and maintenance has to be (re)collected after completion of construction even though the designers and contractors may have already collected this information… read full article
Singapore mandates BIM e-submissions for building projects greater than 5000 square meters
Transforming Singapore’s construction industry: from paper drawings to smart cities… read full article
Sefaira Announces Real-Time Daylight Visualisation Tool for AutoDesk Revit
Sefaira, one of the leading software designers for high-performance building design, have recently announced a new real-time daylight analysis and visualisation tool which runs within Autodesk Revit, one of the most commonly used Building Information Modelling (BIM) enabled (Windows native) design packages. Sefaira for Revit allows for early stage analysis, leading to “more informed design decisions based on multiple daylighting metrics.”… read full article
The M&E BIM gap
There seems to be a widely held industry misconception, even among those who work within mechanical and electrical building services (M&E) that BIM is Revit or a 3D drawing or in fact that the M&E drawings are “the design”… read full article
BIM: A BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIST’S VIEW
BIM offers rich opportunities for using information technologies to manage and coordinate projects more effectively. Collaborative working has the potential to leverage social relationships and interactions, decreasing conflicts and opportunism within teams and throughout supply chains. Collaborative BIM combines the advantages of both, and has the potential to significantly reduce project costs and improve supply chain efficiency… read full article
TECH START-UP VRM OFFERS ‘AFFORDABLE’ BIM TO HOUSING RETROFIT SECTOR
n 18-month-old technology company is rolling out a new cloud-based service that will bring the benefits of BIM and 3D scanning to social landlords, framework contractors and even SMEs operating in the domestic client retrofit sector… read full article
TECH START-UP VRM OFFERS ‘AFFORDABLE’ BIM TO HOUSING RETROFIT SECTOR
n 18-month-old technology company is rolling out a new cloud-based service that will bring the benefits of BIM and 3D scanning to social landlords, framework contractors and even SMEs operating in the domestic client retrofit sector… read full article
Autodesk Expands Software Portfolio for Designing High Performance Buildings and Infrastructure
At Greenbuild 2014, Autodesk unveils new building performance analysis tools and apps that help make the business case for sustainable design… read full article
AEC Firms Turn to Panzura for File Locking Technology to Enable Cross-Site Collaboration
Revisiting the subject of collaboration in the AEC industry, we recently took a look at the computer data storage company Panzura. While the company serves a variety of industries and essentially stumbled onto the AEC market, the company has since devoted itself to developing that segment of its customer base and has tailored its solution for CAD and BIM users over the last few years… read full article
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