BIM for Seniors

BIM had become the main communication vehicle for AEC. Yet it is a language that only a small percentage of the industry speaks.

Now, many in the industry will be quick to dispute the first claim. After all, most construction contracts are still based on drawings and there is a belief that ‘we build off drawings’.

Yet it is undisputable, that a large percentage of those drawings are created in a model-based software.

For better or worse, most of building related data lives in model-based environments.

And the majority of the stakeholders can only access this data via PDFs or printed off drawings.

Curiously, many appear to be happy with this situation and shun BIM in its entirety.

Or are happy to pass it onto the BIM doers, modellers, coordinators, and managers.

Others are interested to know more, get hands-on a bit, peek behind the curtains. These participants of the industry aren’t catered for very well.

The ‘BIM for Seniors’ group is for those that want to learn to understand how to navigate models, find the best tools and pull models apart. Drill down into the metadata that is within those models without the need of complicated digital skills. Get their finger on the pulse of the project and become deeply engaged in their project data.

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring model navigational tools offered by Revizto, Navisworks and Archicad (BIMx).

While there are many tutorials available net-wide on all three mentioned, we find that even in high quality training materials the ‘age factor’ gets missed, i.e. accommodating the differences various generations have in learning new tools.

Skipping over steps that are obvious for a 30-something BiM wiz might put a 40-something newbie off from BIMming forever.

We’d like to help and investigate those roadblocks.

Join the group and start bringing your questions/comments.

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14449194/