Tag: BIM
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Reaching Climate Goals with BIM – An Interview with Marzia Bolpagni
Ready to get inspired and learn more about sustainable construction practices? Join us for this WDBE Talks interview with Marzia Bolpagni of Mace, who shares her insights on the importance of BIM in reaching climate goals. In the interview, Marzia and Aarni Heiskanen discuss Marzia’s current position at Mace and how she advances digital transformation as a leader and influencer How standardization…
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BIM Quality – A Cornerstone of Digital Construction Success
What can make digital twins a reality for building owners? What can facilitate contractors in reducing risks and improving productivity? What allows designers to save time and focus on their core competencies? The answer is building information modeling, when done right. This article looks at BIM quality, why it’s essential and how to achieve it.…
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Here Are the Winners of Tekla Global BIM Awards 2022
Trimble has announced the winners of its 2022 Tekla® Global Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards. The overall winner for the best BIM project of 2022 is T2 Alliance, for their Helsinki Airport expansion project. In this biennial competition, the world’s most impressive structural construction projects that use Tekla solutions are judged in eight categories. The criteria the projects are judged…
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Meet Jacqueline Rohrmann, the Tesla Gigafactory BIM Expert
Aarni Heiskanen had the pleasure of meeting with Jacqueline Rohrmann, a keynote speaker at the WDBE 2022 conference. She talked about the digitalization of the construction sector, her experiences as a design manager at Tesla, and the industry’s future. If you’re a designer learning to use Revit, a BIM tool, you might have watched some…
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Jacqueline Rohrmann on BIM, Tesla Gigafactory, and Building Sustainably
I had the pleasure of meeting with Jacqueline Rohrmann to discuss the digitalization of the construction sector, her experiences as a design manager at Tesla, and the industry’s future. We also touched on the themes of her upcoming keynote speech at the WDBE 2022 conference. After completing her research project on Generative Design, Jacqueline kick-started…
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From BIM to Extended Reality: Six Essential Skills to Succeed
Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Extended Reality (XR) can be combined to create greater efficiency if we know the workflows and implementation strategies well. “Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment” is a key topic in our sector and it is also the title of a new Springer book edited by Marzia Bolpagni, Rui Gavina, and…
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Establishing Corporate-Level Drone and BIM Operations for Construction
Jero Juujärvi, BIM Coordinator at Kreate Group gave this presentation at the WDBE Community Session titled “How can supersensing improve infrastructure construction” on September 22, 2021. The presentation was courtesy of Pointscene. The session hosts were Aarni Heiskanen (https://aec-business.com) and Paul Wilkinson (http://extranetevolution.com). The session program is at wdbe.org. The post Establishing Corporate-Level Drone and…
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The Importance of Immediacy: Talking BIM, VR/AR, and Supersensor Integration with Rune Huse Karlstad
In this episode of WDBE talks, we sat down with Rune Huse Karlstad of Varjo Technologies to talk through the real-world use of VR/AR hardware and the capacity for BIM technologies to integrate and visualise sensor data to help add value for clients. Our discussion covered the increasing role VR headsets play for the sector,…
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CROSSWALK and Collectus Automate BIM Workflows for AECO Firms
In this episode of the AEC Business Podcast, Hugh Seaton of CROSSWALK and Cyril Verley of CDV Systems talk about the new integration that automates BIM workflows. With BIM workflows increasingly dominating the construction sector, professionals need easy and immediate access to libraries and organizing principles. To satisfy this need, CDV Systems and The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) have…
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Hilti’s BIM Services Help Optimize Building Design
Hilti’s BIM design services and digitized building tools help optimize design and offer tools for multi-trade MEP support design. Karl Johnson, Technical Marketing Manager for BIM & MEP, explains the direct impacts of using BIM to improve construction processes, “Let’s consider MEP planning: Without BIM, the support structures are planned on-site and separately by each…