Modlar Blog
Gehry Technologies Latest BIM Collaboration Tool, GTeam
GTeam is a cloud-based 2D and 3D file collaboration platform officially launched by Gehry Technologies (GT) to deliver better BIM collaboration for AEC professionals. The GTeam's open platform helps to collaborate and share data and design information, regardless of... Read More
Free Report: BIM for Infrastructure
The new, free and downloadable SmartMarket Report, The Business Value of BIM for Infrastructure by McGraw-Hill Construction, looks at how BIM is being used on infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges, dams, water treatment facilities, power plants and transp... Read More
New OpenBIM Event: Build Qatar Live 2012
Upon the success of the Build London Live events (2008, 2009, 2012), Asite, AEC3 and buildingSMART MENA & India are launching a new OpenBIM event, Build Qatar Live 2012. The 48 hour competition takes place from Tuesday, November 27th 2012 to Thursday, November 2... Read More
BIM and 'The Rock': How BIM Helped
This is a great video by Graphisoft showcasing how BIM is used to design complex buildings. In 2010, Wellington Airport in New Zealand gained a new expansion; Studio Pacific in association with Warren and Mahoney Architects designed the The Rock, the new unique Inte... Read More
New Competition: The Autodesk Excellence in Infrastructure
Autodesk and CGarchitect have launched a new competition; the Autodesk Excellence in Infrastructure. This new annual competition showcases exemplary use of BIM for civil infrastructure. The competition rewards the use of the technology to plan, design, build and man... Read More
2012 Research Shows Dramatic Increase in Use of BIM in North America
New research conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction shows that there is a rapid increase of Building Information Modeling (BIM) usage by architects, engineers, contractors and owners in North America. The percentage of companies using BIM is now 71%, which is a jump... Read More
Marketing your building product - Guest post
Below is a guest post from April a marketing manager for a building product manufacturer in the USA. April has successfully grown her company's market share over the last 5 years and offers the following advice to building product marketing managers starting out. Ma... Read More
Gardens by the Bay Wins the World Building of the Year
Well done to Singapore's Gardens by the Bay who won this years World Building of the Year, the top prize at World Architecture Festival! Wilkinson Eyre Architects won the award for the design of the Cooled Conservatories, but it was acknowledged that this was a tea... Read More
BIM questions and answers now live
We get asked a lot of questions, 99% of which are related to Building Information Modeling (BIM). This includes questions about how to work with BIM, BIM software tutorials, which BIM software is the right fit, how to support BIM users and how to market to BIM users... Read More
Inside the Porsche Design Tower
It seems like we can't get enough of this fascinating building! Again, as a follow up of last weeks blog about Gil Dezer's interview, I have located another video of the Porsche Design Tower. This time it shows pictures from inside the Porsche Design Tower. It looks... Read More
The BIM Project Execution Planning Guide
The BIM Project Execution Planning buildingSMART alliance (bSa) Project has developed the BIM Project Execution Planning Guide. The bSa is in charge of developing the National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness... Read More
Grand Designs Live Sydney
This weekend the annual Grand Designs Live trade show is on in Sydney. We'll be there with our friends from Miele Appliances, talking to specifiers about the great range of Miele BIM content we have recently built for them (Revit, ArchiCAD and Sketchup formats). It... Read More
The Porsche Design Tower Developer
For those of you who read my blog post a few weeks ago about the new http://www.modlar.com/blog/porsche-design-tower-modeled-using-bimx/" target="_blank">Porsche Design Tower and were fascinated, just like me, about the sheer creation of such a building, I decid... Read More
Facebook Plans Expansion of Campus
Facebook is planning to expand their campus! After their IPO on the stock market, Facebook has decided to add to its campus by building a huge new addition designed by world-renowned architect, Frank Gehry. The new extension hopes to hold up to 2,800 engineers once... Read More
World's First: Floating Leisure Village
Baca Architects is working in collaboration with ZM Architecture and have created a design for a floating urban quarter. Along with developers Floating Concepts, these architects are creating the world's first floating leisure village. Located on the Clyde Waterfron... Read More
BIM Helping to Create Sustainable Buildings
A few weeks ago I posted a blog about Park Ventures and their Gold LEED rating, so I thought it would be a good idea to follow this up with an article specifically on LEED and how BIM can help create sustainable buildings. The widely used LEED (Leadership in Energy... Read More
Around the world in full 3D with the new iOS6 maps
There's a new iPhone out, everyone on the planet has heard about that. However we want to look more closely at the really exciting bit for all of us with a slight case of digital 3D obsession. Apple's latest iOS 6 release brings a whole new maps app to iPhone and iP... Read More
Why Product Manufacturers Should Use BIM
An increasing trend in the industry is product manufacturers creating BIM-based libraries of their products. What this ultimately means is that manufacturers are now supporting designers (architects, contractors and interior designers) by allowing them to incorpora... Read More
BIM for Interiors
The worlds tallest building will hopefully will be built by January 2013 in China. Has work already started? The answer is no, instead the building will be built in only 90 days! How, you ask? Prefabrication. About 95% of the building will be built before work has... Read More
Park Ventures and Green Architecture
Now days buildings are continually striving for environmentally friendly buildings and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is one standard that can be used to measure the environmentally friendliness level. Park Ventures in Thailand is a project tha... Read More
Porsche Design Tower Designed Using BIM
Here's an exciting building in the works. The Porsche Design Tower is being designed and modelled using BIM (Building Information Modelling) software, more specifically they are using Graphisofts ArchiCAD and BIMx viewer. The 57 story luxury building will feature un... Read More
BIMstop Guide to BIM now on iPad!
For a few years we've had a free Guide to BIM ebook available as a free downloadable PDF (here). The ebook was put together to help educate the market with a basic overview of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and where exactly your company fits into the eco syste... Read More
Use of BIM for Interiors
This video displays superbly what BIM can do to help the interior design industry. BIM is for more than just the AEC industry, interior designers are also using BIM to showcase their ideas to their clients. BIMstop is definitely on board this trend; we have various... Read More
BIM terms glossary
All industries now days seemed to be swamped with acronyms! For a start there is "BIM" (Building Information Modelling), but from that point we now have more arriving daily, not to mention the hundreds of different file extensions. To help everyone get their heads a... Read More
Cardinia Civic Centre Designed Using BIM
The Cardinia Civic Centre is an exciting new project that is expected to be completed late 2013. DesignInc designed and documented the building using Revit, so its fantastic to see BIM being used to create such a building. Revit Structure and Revit MEP models were a... Read More
World's Tallest Building Ready in 90 Days
The worlds tallest building will hopefully will be built by January 2013 in China. Has work already started? The answer is no, instead the building will be built in only 90 days! How, you ask? Prefabrication. About 95% of the building will be built before work has e... Read More
London 2012 BIM Landmarks
Although the 2012 Olympics may have finished, AEgis Technologies is lending a hand to showcase London to the world! AEgis Technologies has developed 3D models of London landmarks such as the Tower of London, Parliament, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abby, and n... Read More
BIM as a Marketing Tool
I found this great video that shows the incredible use of BIM as a marketing tool. I think the video shows that BIM is the way forward, not just for the AEC industry, but also for real estate and property developers. The video just portrays what can be done to showc... Read More
BIMstop Sponsoring the Australian Health Design Council Inaugural General Meeting and Melbourne Launch Event
BIMstop is proudly sponsoring the Australian Health Design Council Inaugural General Meeting and Melbourne Launch Event. These two events will take place on Thursday 6th September. Please see the brochure for below for more information. The chair of the Australian H... Read More
BIMstop now available in the Facebook app store
As of today BIMstop is now available in the Facebook app store: http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/bimstop?fb_source=search Facebook connect is something we have supported for a while now, as it is fast becoming one of the main ways people handle their online identit... Read More
BIMstop private libraries - create your own in house library
We are releasing a great new and much requested feature today - BIMstop private libraries. A common request we get from BIM managers at firms big to small is a better way for them to manage their in house BIM library. Some firms don't want their users simply going o... Read More
New Christchurch City Recovery Plan
And the plan is here! So what do we think of the new plan of the garden city of Christchurch in New Zealand? After the devastating February 22nd 2011 earthquake in the city, Christchurch is now planning for the city centres future. The city plan was devised after 10... Read More
1972 Munich Olympic Stadium BIM
Building on the Olympics theme, I have just found a video which builds the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium in ArchiCAD. The Munich Olympic Stadium was designed by G'nther Behnisch and Frei Otto, and built by Bilfinger Berger. Apparently the sweeping transparent canopy w... Read More
The 2012 London Olympic Stadium Using BIM
So the Olympics is fully underway and a hot topic, so I thought I would set an Olympics theme, with a BIM twist! Let's began with a look at how BIM helped build the 2012 London Olympic Stadium. I came across this great article in BuildingSMART UK Newsletter No. 27,... Read More
BIMstop is Retina ready!
Everyone was excited (including us) when Apple announced their latest Mac Book Pro with Retina display. A huge number of people now spend most of their day staring at a computer screen, especially people in the AEC. So Retina or more accurately screens with such hig... Read More
Top companies using BIM
I was just reading this great article which discussed if investment in BIM for individual firms was paying off, here's a link: http://www.bdcnetwork.com/bim-finally-starting-pay-aec-firms?goback=%2Egmp_98421%2Egde_98421_member_..." target="_blank">http://www.bdc... Read More
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy remodeled in BIM using ArchiCAD
Here's a great video that was just sent to us, that really shows how advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools are getting. Below you will see none other than the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy being modeled. It is first modeled with native ArchiCAD buildin... Read More
Polyflor BIM content for Revit and ArchiCAD now live
We're pleased to announce that Polyflor BIM files are now available for their complete flooring range on the BIMstop network, in both Revit and ArchiCAD formats. You can download them directly from Polyflor's BIM profile on our network here > The Polyflor BIM fil... Read More
Shanghai tower and BIM
Seen as a future landmark of Shanghai, the Shanghai Tower aims to showcase cutting-edge sustainable design concepts. Along with BIM technology and processes in practice. The Shanghai Tower is a remarkable story about the advantages of BIM for the whole project lifec... Read More
BIMstop & Dropbox integration
Following on from our new Box.com integration last week, you can now push BIM objects from our BIMstop network directly to your Dropbox.com account. This makes it really easy to add the content you need to your BIM library from anywhere, even from your smartphone or... Read More
