Why are you not using BIM ?
McGraw-Hill Construction has published at report about BIM usage in the US. While individual adopters may be enjoying av variety of benefits from these “point solutions”, the industry as a whole is being held back from a quantum advance because the tools, powerful as they are in thir own right, don’t pass information seamlessly among themselves. This situation is made even less tolerable because out industry is also rapidly adopting principles and practices of integrated project delivery which strive to elimenate...
read moreIFC support in SketchUP!
It’s now nearly three year since I fist contacted @Last Software about the possibilities to see IFC support in SketchUP. At that point the reply was that they didn’t have any plans about implementing it but the question was brought to the developers. After that I’ve seen the same questions being raised several times in various SketchUP forums before and after SketchUP became a Google product. As SketchUP have a pretty active community developing additional features and import / export filters based on the Ruby interface I...
read moreReal life BIM experience
Thursday 6.th December The Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property (Statsbygg) held a seminar about real life experience using IFC based BIM in projects. Of the 38 invited more than 65 met!, This proves that there is still a huge interest in experience from using buildingSMART technology in real projects in Norway. Among the participants where suppliers for IFC compatible software, members from the HITOS project team and project teams from upcoming projects both from Statsbygg and The Norwegian Defence Estates Agency...
read moreJBIM – A BIM Journal
NIBS and NBIMS release first issue of the Journal of Building Information Modeling. This is an interesting development initiated from USA. We hope the journal will have an international flare, and look forward to reading the upcoming issues. Perhaps we can even contribute as well? Please also look at the buildingSMART Alliance, explaining how USA have decided to organize themselves around the buildingSMART standards and its...
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