Maybe some might find this interesting. This was a presentation given and hosted by Qualcomm in San Diego, CA with Kimon Onuma from Onuma Planning Systems .
Presentation Link Here
I really enjoyed the dialog and it was interesting to begin shifting the space from BIM, BIM BIM to a bigger and broader concept which is information management and "connecting the dots" both digital and physical to create value and results.
As always, look forward to your comments and feedback.
Have a great weekend!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Interesting BIM Video from the NYC Transit Authority
http://construction.com/video/?fr_story=561a9e61f88c4993cc8cafd14d98fd0257119e4e&rf=bm
Interesting video coming from the transit and infrastructure end of things. I'm beginning to think there needs to be a new acronym for Building Information Modeling!
Interesting video coming from the transit and infrastructure end of things. I'm beginning to think there needs to be a new acronym for Building Information Modeling!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Autodesk University Debrief
Wow, what a great week AU was!
So AU (as always) was a great opportunity to catch back up with colleagues and meet some new folks as well. I have attached some pictures from the keynote as well as the link for the keynote video here and will be posting my presentation in a seperate (but related) blog on information management and the idea that we are all becoming information managers.
Great presentations by Eddy Krygiel and Alex Ogata from HNTB on BIM Project Management, interesting look into a relatively new virtual collaboration tool Autodesk Vault (link here) and attended an interesting hands on lab on Autodesk Mudbox (link).
Also seemed to have gotten snagged for an "informal" interview, video link here for those interested.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Speaking at AU this Year
For those of you attending Autodesk University this year (http://au.autodesk.com/), I will be giving a lecture presentation on BIM to FiM, which has been of particular relevance to the industry and to a number of other folks, who have become interested in the tools out there, what they can do and what are the best practices for linking BIM information to FiM model information.
I should have three case studies completed by then for everyone to gain a perspective on what FiM entails and how to leverage it
Course Details here ....on page 90.
If you happen to make it, feel free to swing by afterwards and we can chat.
Look forward to seeing many of you there at the event!
I should have three case studies completed by then for everyone to gain a perspective on what FiM entails and how to leverage it
Course Details here ....on page 90.
If you happen to make it, feel free to swing by afterwards and we can chat.
Look forward to seeing many of you there at the event!
Monday, July 26, 2010
AECOM Acquires Tishman
Interesting article about AECOM's acquisition of Tishman. It seems to be a trend with the rise of Design-Build firms using BIM and a race to acquire more and more of the "One-stop-shop" Design-Build firm market.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
iPhone BIM app
Good morning all!
I was over on BIM Workx and read about a cool new app for the iPhone. Basically as I'm an Apple addict if it's new, shiny and has an Apple logo on it, I'll buy it...or my wife will want one.
That said, Ian Keough has developed a neat new app to view Revit models on your iPhone with...complete with (drumroll please) intelligent objects! The app is called goBIM and costs $5.99. I have to admit I have been playing with it for about the past two hours and once you get used to the interface it's a cool little tool.
Ian is also releasing the app for the iPad with a bigger screen to better enable in-field functionality on projects using BIM. Stay tuned there.
Site is here. (http://go-bim.iankeough.com/wordpress/ )
Cool idea, great tool and no post for a while so hopefully this kick starts your Tuesday.
I was over on BIM Workx and read about a cool new app for the iPhone. Basically as I'm an Apple addict if it's new, shiny and has an Apple logo on it, I'll buy it...or my wife will want one.
That said, Ian Keough has developed a neat new app to view Revit models on your iPhone with...complete with (drumroll please) intelligent objects! The app is called goBIM and costs $5.99. I have to admit I have been playing with it for about the past two hours and once you get used to the interface it's a cool little tool.
Ian is also releasing the app for the iPad with a bigger screen to better enable in-field functionality on projects using BIM. Stay tuned there.
Site is here. (http://go-bim.iankeough.com/wordpress/ )
Cool idea, great tool and no post for a while so hopefully this kick starts your Tuesday.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
BIM RFI's
Ladies and gentlemen -
No post for a while, but that' because we've been doing great things!
To begin we have trained over 300 field staff. No small feat.
With some of the best questions I have ever been asked.
One of them was in regard to how to handle RFI's that have been coordinated through the BIM collaborative process. And of course there are a couple of answers to this question.
1.) The first answer is that if you are fortunate enough to work on a project that is IPD or has contract language integrated into the delivery method such as Design-Build or CM at Risk, that streamlines the approval process, many of these teams can approve changes to the model on the go, as they occur.
This is a dream scenario. Unfortunately it's often not the case that the engineer and subcontractor are one and the same. It's great though when you work on a job that as you are going through a series of clash reports, 4D clash reporting, sequencing simulations, etc..the mechanical team, electrical team and so on can approve the changes on the fly. It's amazing how much paperwork and communication time can be reduced.
This is really where the industry is headed for a number of reasons, the biggest of those being cost savings and time to coordinate a project.
Anyways, moving on to answer #2.
2.) In most cases, we are working with a setup that has the engineer and the subcontractor as two different entities with separate interests. While this is the most common way of doing things there are some real inefficiencies in this process, but there are ways to minimize the amount of legwork required to get model changes approved as fast as possible.
Example - you have 4,200 clashes on a CM at Risk job coming from the engineer that you need to coordinate with the subcontractor to fulfill their contract requirement of "fully coordinated shop drawings."
Do you issue 4,200 RFI's to the engineer? Hardly. Besides having a field engineer who you will probably drive to become an alcoholic, there is a better way of processing these changes.
Solution - begin coordinating the clashes via a GoTo Meeting or in house model coordination session. At the end of every week submit all of the changes to the engineer for approval as a BIM submittal to approve the changes you intend to make. This fulfils the requirement to have the engineer sign off on revisions to the design, while streamlining your effort to issue RFI's. Continue until zeroed out...and hopefully prior to construction. Har har.
Finally there WILL be issues that cannot seemingly be resolved via BIM coordination, because for some reason or another the systems just don't fit as designed or someone hasn't thought everything through. In this case, highlight the issue and forward on to the Project management team for resolution as an RFI so you aren't driving yourself crazy trying to be Superman(or girl) and jam everything into the space.
The basic idea here is to maximize the results, minimize the work everyone has to do and virtually coordinate before the shovel hits the dirt.
As always, comments welcome!
No post for a while, but that' because we've been doing great things!
To begin we have trained over 300 field staff. No small feat.
With some of the best questions I have ever been asked.
One of them was in regard to how to handle RFI's that have been coordinated through the BIM collaborative process. And of course there are a couple of answers to this question.
1.) The first answer is that if you are fortunate enough to work on a project that is IPD or has contract language integrated into the delivery method such as Design-Build or CM at Risk, that streamlines the approval process, many of these teams can approve changes to the model on the go, as they occur.
This is a dream scenario. Unfortunately it's often not the case that the engineer and subcontractor are one and the same. It's great though when you work on a job that as you are going through a series of clash reports, 4D clash reporting, sequencing simulations, etc..the mechanical team, electrical team and so on can approve the changes on the fly. It's amazing how much paperwork and communication time can be reduced.
This is really where the industry is headed for a number of reasons, the biggest of those being cost savings and time to coordinate a project.
Anyways, moving on to answer #2.
2.) In most cases, we are working with a setup that has the engineer and the subcontractor as two different entities with separate interests. While this is the most common way of doing things there are some real inefficiencies in this process, but there are ways to minimize the amount of legwork required to get model changes approved as fast as possible.
Example - you have 4,200 clashes on a CM at Risk job coming from the engineer that you need to coordinate with the subcontractor to fulfill their contract requirement of "fully coordinated shop drawings."
Do you issue 4,200 RFI's to the engineer? Hardly. Besides having a field engineer who you will probably drive to become an alcoholic, there is a better way of processing these changes.
Solution - begin coordinating the clashes via a GoTo Meeting or in house model coordination session. At the end of every week submit all of the changes to the engineer for approval as a BIM submittal to approve the changes you intend to make. This fulfils the requirement to have the engineer sign off on revisions to the design, while streamlining your effort to issue RFI's. Continue until zeroed out...and hopefully prior to construction. Har har.
Finally there WILL be issues that cannot seemingly be resolved via BIM coordination, because for some reason or another the systems just don't fit as designed or someone hasn't thought everything through. In this case, highlight the issue and forward on to the Project management team for resolution as an RFI so you aren't driving yourself crazy trying to be Superman(or girl) and jam everything into the space.
The basic idea here is to maximize the results, minimize the work everyone has to do and virtually coordinate before the shovel hits the dirt.
As always, comments welcome!
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