2012: The Year that Was

Happy New Year! BIMstop wishes everyone a happy 2013 and looks forward to what 2013 holds for us and the community.



2012 was a year that had many changes for both our website and BIM in the community, so we have decided to compile a brief history of the important postings of 2012.



2012 was an exciting year around BIM, lets take a look back at the news from 2012:







OpenBIM is launched in March



New Zealand National BIM Survey is released in April



Apple campus 2 update and renders are released in June (OK, not BIM related but much anticipated!)



We learnt that the worlds tallest building would be ready in 90 Days in August



The Porsche Design Tower is designed using BIM in September



A new award is launched, The Autodesk Excellence in Infrastructure, in October



Gehry Technologies, GTeam, is launched in November



Build Qatar Live went underway in November



The 2012 Business Value of BIM in North America is out in December







BIMstop went through many changes over 2012, have a look at all we have achieved:







Release of the new BIMstop profiles in February



Embedded BIM content becomes available in February



Contact invite is available in February



BIMstop becomes a finalist in the NZ Hi Tech Awards in March



We release an activity feed for profiles in April



We introduce community and manufacturer BIM content upload tags in April



BIMstop connects with LinkedIn in June



BIMstop integrates with Dropbox in June



Release of BIM Projects in June



BIMstop was available in the Facebook app store in August



Private BIM libraries is launched in August



BIMstop Questions and Answers page goes live in October



The BIMstop Revit 2013 plugin is available on the Autodesk Exchange in November



A site wide activity feed is launched in November



A new verification system is launched in November







We have thoroughly enjoyed 2012 and we can't wait for the changes 2013 will bring!