BIM Technologies and Services Showcase – Thames Valley and South East BIM Hub meeting.
Following a Government BIM Task Group Update, a number of technology and services providers, including 4Projects, Asite, Faro, Hobs Reprographics and IDN, will… read full article
INTERVIEW: PHIL HOLDEN KEEP IT SIMPLE, SAYS RIBA GROUP CHAIR
Phil Holden is chair of the RIBA’s Construction Leadership Group
What are the aims of the RIBA’s construction liason group?
It is going to require a real collaborative effort from both design and construction to achieve the government’s Construction 2025 Strategy targets to improve delivery speed of projects by 50%, cut built environment greenhouse gas emissions by 50% and cut overall project costs by a third…
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Smart cities market forecasted to reach over $ 1 trillion by 2019
Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon. Smart city technology is becoming an essential element in the development of the world’s megacities. For example, the new Indian government’s just released budget includes an allocation for initiating the development of 100 smart cities. Songdo IDB in Korea and Fujisawa in Japan are two smart cities already under development. China has 36 smart cities in development and a low carbon model city in Tianjin. Singapore plans to become a smart nation by 2015. Iskandar is Malaysia’s first smart city. The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) incorporates smart city concepts… read full article
OSBORNE’S RENNIE CHADWICK SAYS 50% OF 2015 WORK AT LEVEL 2
The year ahead for £325m turnover contractor Osborne will see a “step change” in the volume of public sector projects using BIM, according to Dr Rennie Chadwick, the company’s director of design and IT and a member of the CIOB Innovation and Research panel.
Chadwick predicted that projects delivering Level 2 BIM would make up 10% of its turnover at the start of 2015, rising sharply to 50% by the end of the year… read full article
Vertical and Indoor 9-1-1 Location Mapping
In June 2011, NENA approved an end-state architectural vision for NG9-1-1 in the United States that includes indoor 9-1-1 caller location sub-address elements such as building name, floor, suite, room, and seat.
In February 2014, the FCC proposed rules to improve indoor and mobile phone 9-1-1 call location accuracy, including for the first time requiring wireless carriers to provide vertical information (z axis) within three meters… read full article
BIM4Housing Conference
15th January 2015 at Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
Programme:
Welcome and introduction to the ‘benefits matrix’
– Andrew Carpenter, Chairman, BIM4Housing
BIM: from the sell to substance
Challenges, opportunities and return on investment
– TBC
Telford Homes case study
– Mark Duffield , Technical Director, Telford Homes
Redefined responsibilities and ownership?
– Alan Tate, Trowers & Hamlin LLP
BIM and the supply chain challenge
– Andrew Orris, Head of Business Development, SIG360
The revolution of BIM to FM data transfer covering techniques and management of this process
– Gary Ross, Principal Consultant, Excitech TBC
The BIM process and what to look out for
– Bobby Chakravarthy, Arcus
– Richard Whittaker, Nottingham City Homes
The question is not WHY should one ban the use of paper on construction sites but WHY NOT?
The starting premise is similar to all ‘BIM stories’, it builds on the theory that the AEC industry is notoriously bad at modernising its processes and its archaic information management causes losses to many, if not all participants.
The proposed solution to the problem is however fundamentally different to most globally accepted ‘mainstream’ BIM approaches.
Rather than turning to smart tools, software packages, programmes and systems, the onus of the strategy is put on the non-BIM construction practitioners to raise their performance. And the strategy suggests, they will do so when they are put in a paperless environment for a long enough timeframe… read full article
BIM Task Group misses out on long-term level three funding
The government’s BIM tsar Mark Bew expects central government support for BIM to continue beyond 2016, despite the task group charged with implementing the policy receiving less funding than hoped for in this year’s Autumn Statement spending round.
The BIM Task Group – which Bew chairs – received a “small budget” from the Treasury to launch a strategy for rolling out BIM level three in last week’s Autumn Statement, with a level three strategy launch expected as early as January… read full article
BIMobject® partnership helps Skanska to support its supply chain
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
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
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