Saturday, September 13, 2014

Can BIM maturity be objectively measured?

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BIM, as a project delivery method, is quite a recent industry initiative to some people.   To others, it is a very old one that failed t...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

PDFs and BIM: A trilogy of posts investigating what the PDF format’s role may be in strategies transitioning the industry to BIM? First part: PDFs within current AEC – Important yet neglected?

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PDF as a digital file-format is generally frowned upon by those in charge of creation and management of project information within the AEC...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Why is the sky blue? Why does gravity pull objects towards the centre of the Earth?

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The title of this post is a direct quote from a friend DJ, a fellow aging-and somewhat disillusioned BIM-mer. While sharing a pleasant I...
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Friday, July 11, 2014

BIM and the ‘age’ thing: When is one too old to get into BIM?

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This is a topic that most people with some investment in BIM like to avoid, yet it naughtily pops up on many official and unofficial BIM r...
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Friday, July 4, 2014

How long should it take to build a ‘functioning’ BIM team from scratch?

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I have a good friend; she works as a senior HR recruiter for a medium size developer company operating in the GCC. She’s been with them fo...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

First Openly Anti (mainstream) BIM-Book on the Market!

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I’m considering publishing a book. What a ‘revolutionary idea’, one might say! I wrote: ‘considering’, not that it is a done deal yet....
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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Question: What is a VA-BIM? (Variation Administrator; BIM Re-measure Coordinator)

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Answer: A VA-BIM is a Male/Female, 35+ old, QS professional that has had (some) ‘exposure to BIM systems for quantification’. The role...
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Saturday, May 3, 2014

People say, the Construction industry is notoriously conservative.

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So much of a widely accepted view this statement had become by now, that it is regularly used to explain failings in vastly differing aspe...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Can 2 decades of mismanagement of a global industry be bridged over? What responsibility do ‘veteran BIM practitioners’ need to take for the current state, where the entire global AEC is simply unable to keep up with the times?

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For me, probably the most irritating thing about the ‘BIM field’ within the global AEC industry is its un-preparedness to face up to reali...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

The measure of a BIM infiltration coefficient for a BIM-active entity

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I’ve been taking it easy with BIM lately.   This can be seen as a probably not surprising bi-product of my self-preservation instincts k...
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