To launch the BIM+ site, Construction Manager gathered a panel of industry experts to debate the question of the moment.
BIM: is the industry ready? Judging by the responses around the table at the debate that CM put together to launch the BIM+ channel on its website, the answer is a variation on “Yes, but… read full article
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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
THE INDUSTRY’S BIM READINESS IN 10 VIDEO INTERVIEWS
Is the industry ready for the government’s BIM mandate in April 2016? That was the main theme of the round table event held recently to launch the BIM+ website, attended by a cross-section of well-placed commentators and kindly hosted by law firm Olswang.
Participants included David Philp FCIOB, head of BIM implementation at the government’s BIM Task Group; Peter Trebilcock, BIM director at Balfour Beatty Construction Services UK; and Simon Rawlinson, head of research and innovation at EC Harris…. read full article
Could Google’s “Project Tango” Tablet Revolutionize Construction?
Today’s tablet computers are handy for staying connected from the field. But they might be about to get much, much more useful. Imagine a tablet that knows its exact position in space and can generate a realtime 3D map of everything around it…. read full article
CIBSE: Please complete our short BIM survey
The CIBSE BIM Steering Group encourages participants from all aspects of the building process to reflect on their experiences of BIM through a survey throughout July and August at… read full article
International BIM
In 2013, NBS produced our first international BIM report. In it, we examined the attitudes towards BIM across countries to see how each compares. We uncovered adoption rates and… read full article
New research reveals specifications becoming increasingly central to BIM
The lifespan of specifications is increasing as they link to digital drawings and become more integral to Building Information Models according to the latest Specification Survey & Report published by NBS.
65% of respondents agree that in the future a specification will have a life as long as its building, whilst 75% believe they… read full article
Majority of firms are ‘using’ BIM, says NBS
Results of the latest National BIM Survey, released this week by NBS, suggest the industry is at a tipping point with BIM moving from niche practice to a process adopted – at least for some projects – by the majority, says NBS head of research Adrian Malleson.
The headline finding from the survey of more than 1,000 respondents, half of them architects or architectural technologists, was that… read full article
Survey: 2013 RIBA Plan of Work taken up by 13%
The 2013 version of the RIBA Plan of Work is slowly gaining ground within the industry, according to research by construction information supplier NBS.
The 2013 Specification Survey survey quizzed a range of industry professionals, most of them product specifiers, and found that just 13% of respondents were using RIBA Plan of Work 2013 as their only tool for organising project work, whereas 42% said they used only the 2007 version. However, a further 40% of respondents said that they used both versions in tandem…. read full article
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