Tag: Finland
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How Finland is simplifying building permits with BIM
Many real estate developers, property owners, and city officials feel building permitting should be more streamlined. To reduce friction, efforts have been made to use online forms and submit 2D drawings as PDFs. While this saves time, Finland is taking a massive leap forward by introducing BIM-based permitting, with Solibri playing a vital role in…
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Three AEC Tech Conferences Coming up in Finland
The technologies driving construction are evolving perhaps faster than ever before. How do you make sense of how they could enhance your competitiveness? International AEC conferences are a great way to learn what’s now, new, and next. They also offer unique opportunities to connect with industry change-makers. I’m involved in three unique AEC tech conferences:…
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RAVA3Pro and Solibri Collaborate Toward a Digital Building Permitting Process in Finland
Finland’s building permit process is set to revolutionize with the new construction act, making it BIM model-based. This transition is made possible by the model specifications and inspection rules of the RAVA3Pro project, with Solibri as the lead executor. While design in the construction sector has been digitalized and BIM, Building Information Modeling, is gaining…
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BIM-based Building Permit Rolling out in Finland
On March 8th, I attended a seminar about RAVA3Pro, a national project to develop a BIM-based building permit in Finland. It was fascinating to learn about all the pieces needed to put together a practical solution for creating, submitting, and checking BIM models for permits. Most building permit digitalization efforts have relied on 2D drawings…
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PropTech Finland Steps Up – AEC Business
The previously informal network of Finnish proptech activists has now become a formalized community. The launch of PropTech Finland took place at KPMG’s Helsinki office on April 24, 2019. PropTech Finland’s mission is to unite the Finnish built environment startup community, to start and scale up businesses, and to integrate them into the global proptech…
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How BIM is Revolutionizing Building Control in Finland
BIM is becoming mainstream in building design, but building control is still predominantly based on paper documents and 2D drawings. A Finnish KIRA-digi experimentation project has demonstrated how BIM can speed up and improve the building permit process considerably. Three Finnish cities–Hyvinkää, Järvenpää, and Vantaa–are in the vanguard of model-based building control. Together with Evolta,…
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BIM Requirements for Infrastructure Released in Finland
Built infrastructure clients, consultants, contractors, and software developers assembled yesterday to celebrate a milestone in Finnish BIM history. The release of InfraBIM requirements took place at Dipoli in Otaniemi. The development of the guidelines has been a cross-disciplinary venture. The resulting documents are to be used as general technical references and modeling guidelines during procurement and…
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State of IPD in Finland – Interview with Lauri Merikallio
I had the pleasure of meeting with Lauri Merikallio, Partner at Vison Alliance Partners, in Helsinki. During the interview Lauri explains how he got involved in Integrated Project Delivery, IPD, and how it’s been implemented in Finland. Lauri Merikallio has become thoroughly familiar with the LEAN philosophy and its application in projects and provision of services. One of the innovations…