Tag: BIM
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Bringing BIM to the Modern Built Environment: An Interview with Prof. Martin Fischer
We talked with Professor Martin Fischer of Stanford University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the run-up to WDBE. Our discussion covered what drew him to the discipline and the practical challenges of applying BIM in the modern built environment. An essential part of contemporary design, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a valuable collaborative practice…
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Bringing BIM to the Modern Built Environment: An Interview with Prof. Martin Fischer
We talked with Professor Martin Fischer of Stanford University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the run-up to WDBE. Our discussion covered what drew him to the discipline and the practical challenges of applying BIM in the modern built environment. An essential part of contemporary design, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a valuable collaborative practice…
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Taking the Mystery Out of BIM Data Mining
Information mining as a way to affect the productivity curve in construction. Success in the AEC industry comes down to productivity. Unfortunately, as we all know from many famous studies, productivity has not changed much in the AEC industry. However, there is a deep well of potential for BIM to help show us how problems…
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InsiteVR Launches Collaborative VR Review of Huge BIM Files on the Oculus Quest
InsiteVR, the AEC virtual reality meeting software announced a new product today, Resolve, to further enable large construction projects to review building information models (BIM) on the Oculus Quest. Resolve introduces a new model loading engine, making it the first commercially available solution capable of opening complex building models with hundreds of millions of polygons on the wireless…
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How Solibri Is Continually Guiding Its Customers to BIM Success
Solibri is a trailblazer in the automated checking of building information models and it has been a leader in this field for many years. I had the pleasure of discussing with CEO Ville Kyytsönen how the company is expanding its offering and future-proofing its customers’ success. “When I learned that Solibri was looking for a…
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KONE is Shaking Up the Industry with BIM
KONE supplies elevators, escalators, autowalks and maintenance and modernization solutions. I sat down with Kenneth Flannigan to discuss how BIM is changing KONE and what it means to the industry. Ken Flannigan KONE operates in over 60 countries, has around 1.3 million units in service, and moves over one billion people per day. The company’s…
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LetsBuild Sets Out to Solve Problems with On-site BIM Adoption
LetsBuild, recently formed by the merger of Belgian APROPLAN and Danish GenieBelt, will soon be launching an ambitious BIM product. LetsBuild wants to seamlessly link on-site activities and checks to the project’s BIM model. Just as importantly, the company is focusing on ensuring easy adoption by site teams. Most companies in the construction industry are…
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How BIM Helps Make Buildings Safer
There are many uses for building information models that are yet to be discovered. One Finnish team collaborated with a city and fire & rescue authority to explore how BIM would help make buildings safer. “Imagine a fire inspector in a building with an AR headset. He can retrieve data from the building’s digital model…
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Scaling up Building Sustainability Assessments with BIM Model Checker Tools
Sustainability of buildings is an essential topic – buildings and construction consume almost half of raw materials and one third of energy in Europe. Therefore, scaling up the building sustainability assessments and making them faster and more reliable is a key challenge. Panu Pasanen (Photo: Bionova) Building sustainability is evaluated with a Life Cycle Assessment…
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Making the World’s Longest Undersea Railway Tunnel Possible with BIM
Finland and Estonia are Baltic sea neighbors separated by the Gulf of Finland. Over eight million travelers and 1.2 million cars travel between Helsinki and Tallinn every year by boat. However, a consortium of companies is now planning to build the Finest railway tunnel between the two countries. The vision of such a tunnel has…