Death to BIM

Love those dramatic intro lines!

Here it is a new and unique concept for us all to begin to marinate on. What do all of the following have in common?:

a.) Architects

b.) Structural Engineers

c.) Mechanical Engineers

d.) Electrical Engineers

e.) Plumbing Engineers

f.) Fire Protection Engineers

g.) Interior Designers

h.) Planners

i.) Construction Managers

j.) Subcontractors

k.) Facility Managers

l.) Owners

m.) Real Estate Agents

n.) Industry Standard Agencies

o.) Code Compliance Agencies

p.) Consultants (acoustic, specialty, etc..)

q.) Other

And the answer is... Please enter your answers in the following comment field I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with...

-Sidebar, there is in fact a point to this exercise and not one in futility that we'll dig into a follow up post

Qualcomm Presentation with Kimon Onuma

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.