AECCafe Today Posts Tagged ‘BIM’BIM adoption may become next construction standard according to surveyFriday, February 19th, 2010“Although the BIM adoption rate has slowed due to a challenging economic climate, 51 percent of survey respondents to [the 2009 survey from Building Design+Construction] have added or plan to add more BIM seat licenses, down from 63 percent of companies in 2008. The total number of seats purchased is also expected to decline by 56 percent since 2008.”
IMT, ThomasNet.com by Ilya Leybovich, February 17, 2010 Investment in BIM requires leadersThursday, February 11th, 2010Larry Barton, president of Strang, a 75-year-old architecture, engineering, interior design and construction administration firm in Madison, WI, said their firm takes advantage of outside consulting offered by Eppstein Uhen Architects to help more firms understand BIM strategies — but it that is not all that is needed. Integrating BIM into a company’s day-to-day work also requires a few key employees who will take the lead in learning the sophisticated comp platform, keep up with changes over time and teach others how to use it, he said. “You tend to develop champions within your office,” Barton said. “There will be two or three people who really enjoy working on it and make the investment of time and energy into learning the tools. And they, in essence, lead the rest of your firm towards its implementation.” Madison.com http://host.madison.com/html_fdf08232-16a1-11df-9010-001cc4c002e0.html Bentley announces Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM)Tuesday, January 26th, 2010This morning Bentley announced to the press the launch of its Integrated Structural Modeling (ISM) methodology for those using and creating structural project information. This solution is designed to allow structural engineers to more fully participate in multi-disciplinary, integrated project workflows, and also take advantage of BIM best practices. Included in the solution are two new apps, Structural Synchronizer V8i and Structural Dashboard V8i which are downloadable from http://bentley.com/getISM at no charge. |
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