Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the starting point of a contributed article to AECbytes.com. In Enterprise Wiki: An Emerging Technology to be Considered by the AEC Industry, Ondrej Kalny likens the information-sharing approach of BIM to the wider need for collaboration within a typical AEC project team, using a ‘hub and spokes’ diagram that will …
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Mar 26 2007
Use of BIM
In an article, Use of BIM, at AECcafe.com, Susan Smith writes about the difficulty in assessing how widely Building Information Modelling (BIM) is used. She says: “Many vendors would have the public believe that BIM is used in an enormous number of occasions…” but “It is difficult for vendors to qualify where BIM is being …
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Mar 23 2007
Uniting Construction IT
Last September (see A co-ordinated approach to construction IT in the UK), I mentioned an initiative to create a more coordinated approach to managing IT interests in the UK AEC industry. You can now read about United Construction IT on the website of ConstructIT for Business (one of the organisations competing for our attention). It talks about creating “one …
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Mar 23 2007
Aconex get Bilfinger Berger project
The latest Aconex news release talks about an Australian power station project. Nothing particularly remarkable about it, but I did notice the contractor is Bilfinger Berger – once a shareholder in rival construction collaboration vendor BuildOnline (today CTSpace) following the BO merger with myBau in 2002.
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Mar 20 2007
Trust and the team
Last week, I touched on the issue of trust in sharing digital design information. It crops up again in an interesting article, BIM and Risk, by Richard Lowe in the US-based “Constructor” magazine (found, by the way, via the CADwire Insights weekly newsletter). He opens with a simple analogy: “The argument in favor of using virtual 3D …
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Mar 15 2007
Business Collaborator grows in 2006
According to the latest annual report (see Stock Exchange notice) from Coda plc, its subsidiary UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator continued to grow in the year ending 31 December 2006: “We are delighted that the strong performance in 2005 has continued again in 2006. The membership of the SEDEX program (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) has continued …
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Mar 14 2007
UK CAD managers survey 2007
Last March, I wrote about Evolve Consultancy‘s UK CAD Managers Survey 2006 (see Email used to issue 65% of CAD information). The 2007 edition has just been published, but as I can’t afford £199 for the full results, I will have to make do with the main headline findings summarised in the news release. No …
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Mar 14 2007
DWF v PDF v other formats
In my book, I devote a short section to discussion of the file formats commonly used in construction collaboration. A more comprehensive overview of the subject is given in David Harrison’s Stress-free blog, in an article entitled Why Autodesk should ‘Open’ DWF. David extends the analysis beyond my basic comparison of DWF and PDF formats; …
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Mar 14 2007
JCT collaborative contract
I’ve been very busy recently so had to miss the launch of the new JCT/Constructing Excellence contract at the House of Commons in London on 1 March (see news release). It is claimed the new contract form “has been developed by JCT in collaboration with Constructing Excellence”. This is not my understanding. The contract began as …
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