Benchmarking the Norwegian public sector
The Frisch Centre and Catenda has examined the efficiency and productivity changes in 4 areas of the Norwegian public sector (higher education, hospitals, police and childrens welfare). One of the main results was that all fours areas had overall increases in productivity in the time period studied. The full text version of the report can be downloaded from here (in Norwegian). The research was commissioned by the Norwegian ministry of government administration, reform and church...
read moreStandardized rule checking of BIM
There is almost no limit to what you can do with a building information model (BIM), once you have the data. Imagine all the different analysis or simulations you can do, once you have a virtual building to play with! Useful software is already showing up, a very good example of this i Solibri Model Checker. The real challenge with this, however, is to develop a way to standardize the rules. Statsbygg in Norway, Standards Norway and the National Office of Building Technology and Administration in Norway has all seen this challenge, and...
read moreFree BIM presentations from us to you
Since I started working on IFD and buildingSMART related matters 10 years ago I have made many attempts to communicate the ideas behind IFD and IFC for anyone willing to listen. Some presentations are best forgotten but others as the one containing the “building information circle” (sometimes referred to as the “Holy Grail”) was a success and has been gone through multiple modifications and been used by me and other at many occasions. As we like the idea of sharing here at SINTEF, we have decided to make some of our...
read more“Review of the Development and Implementation of IFC compatible BIM”
This is a report sponsored by Erabuild, and written by a collaborative group from SINTEF (Ole Jørgen Karud and Håvard Bell), VTT (Arto Kiviniemi), Rambøll (Jan Karlshøj) and Eurostep (Väino Tarandi). We (SINTEF) had the lead of the project, but it was a very productive team effort, and shows the strength the Nordic countries represent in this field. The report provides current status on buildingSMART technology and usage, gives an overview of all the lessons learned so far, and list all recommended steps for future development and further...
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