DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Chance would also have it, I got into BIM at a sort of early (professional) age and got hooked on it some 20+ years ago. I had to decide, if I was a Design Manager or a BIM Manager. A BIM enabled (literate) Design Manager is, like someone that speaks an extra language. Maybe not symphonies, but satisfying singsongs. I liked it.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been taking it easy with BIM lately. One can say, I got totally BIM-med out over it, an unhappy culmination of two decades of vigorously pursuing an elusive professional target with at best- mixed results. I now got myself a job that has nothing to do with BIM. I now got myself a job that has nothing to do with BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

These claims I make based on the (previously mentioned in this blog) product demonstration I had the pleasure of attending recently. Funnily enough, in principle, I’d love to have a ‘BIM by numbers approach’ in place. I just think, it is a long way ahead for most companies doing anything BIM these days.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

2/ Software developers that claim to have ‘invented BIM’ are leading the field and are actively setting the standards, should not be allowed to shy away from the responsibility that these claims carry. For any meaningful progress, more scrutiny and rigorous discussions are needed. Someone got to do it, might as well be me.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 24, 2023

This month, we have 20+ product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud platform and products including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, BuildingConnected, ProEst, and BIM 360. And because your time is valuable, we don’t need you to sweat the details. As always, transmitting is based on folder permissions.

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Building Information Management

MARCH 8, 2013

A recent study by NBS provides a snapshot of BIM (Building Information Modelling) implementation within the UK’s construction industry. 71% of respondents to the NBS survey agreed that BIM represents the ‘future of project information’ 39% confirmed that they were now actually using BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 28, 2013

Following my post where I questioned the logic of the ‘BIM Maturity Plan’ adopted by the UK Government, many people felt the need to quickly put me right. They are just being jealous, for not having thought of it first, ‘it’ being whatever you like ‘it’ to be when it comes to BIM. This is an extremely long bow to draw.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This month, we have more than 35 product releases across Autodesk Construction Cloud platform and products, including Autodesk Build, Autodesk BIM Collaborate, Autodesk Takeoff, ProEst, BuildingConnected, Assemble, and BIM 360.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 18, 2018

When it comes to BIM, the industry seems to split neatly over two groups: One, a tiny one is made up of those that publicly accept to know absolutely nothing about BIM and are happy to stay as such. The other, a significantly larger group consist of almost everyone else and they are the ones that know ‘everything’ about BIM.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 5, 2011

Verbal BIM in action. You’ll most likely abandon your unwritten-BIM approach to deliver the subsequent projects and you may or may not have them completed to everyone’s satisfaction. I hope that the lessons you learned from verbal BIM stay with you. The builder goes away, then calls and tells you a price.

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Despite BIM having been around for 3+ decades, it is by no means embraced by the global AEC. Most of the industry is uneasy about the BIM thing, yet there is rarely meaningful discussion about it. Most of the industry is uneasy about the BIM thing, yet there is rarely meaningful discussion about it. my respect is with them).

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 3, 2012

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Saturday, March 3, 2012. BIM surveys. Requests to participate in BIM-related surveys. Labels: BIM surveys. BIM surveys.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 31, 2016

Have you encountered or used building information modeling (BIM) on any of your projects? Are you interested in BIM but don't know where to begin? BIM seems to be highly regarded by those who have made the transition. Contractors are finding benefits in improved coordination and scheduling with less claims and change orders.

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Construction Dive

MARCH 17, 2016

Have you encountered or used building information modeling (BIM) on any of your projects? Are you interested in BIM but don't know where to begin? BIM seems to be highly regarded by those who have made the transition. Contractors are finding benefits in improved coordination and scheduling with less claims and change orders.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The need to have universal standards for working in BIM has been identified long time ago. Not having one has a detrimental effect on BIM’s ability to mature. The buildingSMART alliance claims to have developed the ‘basis for true information interoperability with AEC’. I am unconvinced.

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ENR Construction

AUGUST 21, 2012

BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma. Autodesks Acquisition of Vela Systems Puts Mobile BIM On Fast Track. -- Advertising --. This is a major trend in project delivery: deploying platforms that achieve true BIM-in-the-cloud functionality, including generative capacity, he says. Photo Contest Archives. Slideshows.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

“This BIM thing is great. brushes a client away your perfectly pitched presentation on how BIM benefits architects and the end-clients of construction projects. It is well known by now that BIM’s object based approach is a natural fit for the modular and this IS an advantage as opposed to an imposing, constraining characteristic.

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DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 26, 2011

Today is Earth Hour, claim the news. Not relevant to BIM? Topical as in what’s going on around me, not just pertinent to my BIM bubble. Now, this is significant to all that live in their little BIM bubbles. I celebrate an alternative Earth Hour. I digress a bit here but like to be topical too.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 3, 2017

Sometimes, I find that the most useless word, when discussing BIM implementation strategies, is the word ‘useful’. People tend to over use it to justify ‘playing with BIM’. A small percentage of people on projects do activities that can be loosely called BIM and loosely qualified as ‘useful’. And the sky is blue.

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 22, 2013

How much does it cost to be a platinum sponsor for the next HK Institute of Building BIM Conference? Can’t do real BIM? BIMES are in Dubai, let’s move back to Hong Kong; (that is, move the story back) How did Mr Derek So, the self-crowned BIM expert and director of Gammon, justify this platinum sponsor expense to his board ?

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DebunkTheBIM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

When I talk of ‘scalability of BIM’, I think of the ability to maintain integrity of the end-product while expanding the workforce from one person doing the job (me) to a few and then to many. Some mistake this scalability requirement with the size of the projects, they show me LARGE buildings done in BIM. It is generally ignored.

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In this article Mr Barker reports back from a trip to Hong Kong and describes his fascination by the noticeable difference in approach to BIM compared with the UK. In this article Mr Barker reports back from a trip to Hong Kong and describes his fascination by the noticeable difference in approach to BIM compared with the UK.

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Constructonomics

DECEMBER 11, 2012

About the Author : Hi, I’m Aliya Jennifer from BIMhub.com , a One-Stop-BIM platform. BIMhub aims to empower architects, engineers, constructors and facility managers by offering high-end BIM solutions. To know more about BIM services , please visit our site.

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DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 6, 2011

Flatcad was first called CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Drafting and Manufacture) then it lost the CAM when Architecture started to claim ownership, but added another D for Design. CADD); BIM was not always BIM either. My suggestion: Put two little ‘m’s in front of BIM Meaningful and measurable

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 27, 2013

I copped a bit of flack when I wrote in my blog recently about the status of the UK BIM being the ‘rarefied bubble of advanced best (BIM) practice’ – even though I dutifully quoted the original source of the claim. I love the world ‘challenge’ – it so often is associated with BIM.

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Building Information Management

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The issue, of course is that there is NO “industry tested and approved level” RICS has announced a BIM Manager Certification. While BIM is far from a “standard” the certification is an attempt to define and evaluate the proficiencies of construction professionals with respect to BIM (Building Information Modelling).

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DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Why would the good character or even the BIM knowledge of a person be undermined by a paper-notebook and a pen? None of the above should be an embracement to those actively promoting BIM? but not on paper…oh, what a feeble pun) You BIM? If your title has BIM in it, you ought to go paperfree! Of course, one can.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 29, 2014

Answer: A VA-BIM is a Male/Female, 35+ old, QS professional that has had (some) ‘exposure to BIM systems for quantification’. This could be good news for the BIM campaigners active in the region. It is a large project, blessed with an elaborately spec’d, mandated BIM. Or a BIM expert. But not both.

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Construction Dive

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Have you encountered or used building information modeling (BIM) on any of your projects? Are you interested in BIM but don''t know where to begin? BIM seems to highly regarded by those who have made the transition. Contractors are finding benefits in improved coordination and scheduling with less claims and change orders.

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

She must be fully aware of it coming, after all it’s been some time since the UK Government BIM Mandate has been dreamed up and sold successfully to both the practicing and the ‘not quite convinced yet but getting there’, BIM world. With their claim to have invented the acronym? Quite possibly. By the way, what mandate?

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 11, 2013

The ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’; the final sledgehammer, is (HMG) UK Government’s BIM initiative that I’ve engrossed myself with lately. As foretold, I made a thorough study of the ‘Report for the Government Construction Client Group Building Information Modelling (BIM) Working Party Strategy Paper’.

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DebunkTheBIM

MAY 19, 2011

Prescriptive/Specification-based BIM.” I do advocate for building owners to employ independent BIM advisors. This concept is not new (roles of clerks-of-works fall in here, so do in house design and project managers’) and it does not necessary need BIM. However, BIM makes it more affordable than the alternatives.

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DebunkTheBIM

JULY 26, 2014

Some sophisticated Cloud Document Management systems claim to have solved the issue by focusing on the even bigger issue with PDFs that is managing the quantities they tend to be coming in. Could the problem be in lack of interest from Adobe to step up its offering for the AEC or are there some other reasons behind the scenes?

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DebunkTheBIM

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Let me just mention a few basic points that come to mind: · For example the work of prof Mark Burry: he moved to Melbourne in the mid 1990s – by then a visible and globally respected BIM figure. See, once upon a time, some decade or so ago – BIM (or VC) and Graphisoft (with ArchiCAD) were doing very well in Australia (and New Zealand)!

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The whole ‘BIM thing’ has been trying to change this trend, entice the elite of the young thinkers, the cream of the technology developers and together shake the industry through innovation into a new, cool force to reckon with. Unfortunately, this ‘BIM thing’ has been anything but successful. 10%, 20%, 90%?

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DebunkTheBIM

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I am stirring up trouble (again), really, this BIM has been around for quite some time and the various groups of direct/or indirect purchasers targeted for services/products that fall under BIM are anything but queuing up to have them; Why is that?

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 12, 2020

While technology vendors (BIM, CMMS, CAFM, IWMS…) often claim to have solutions, the reality is that fundamental process change is the only path to significant improvement with respect to physical asset life-cycle management.

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