BIM usage Blog Posts

The 2012 Business Value of B

2016

The Business Value of BIM in North America: Multi-Year Trend Analysis and User Ratings (2007 2012) by McGraw-Hill Construction is now out! As posted in our blog in October, the new report follows up on the use and growth of BIM since its last report in 2009. The new... Read More

2012 Research Shows Dramatic

2016

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

BIM used on Monash Universit

2016

The Robert Menzies Building, constructed in the 1960s and designed by Eggleston Macdonald (now DesignInc) has undergone a major redevelopment to deliver a 40 year life cycle, incorporating emerging trends in education environment design. The existing structure and e... Read More

Burj Khalifa (Burj Dubai) BI

2016

Here's a great video of the Burj Khalifa (formally the Burj Dubai) in the UAE. The Burj as you may know is the world's tallest building. We were lucky enough to see it for real last year and it is amazing in real life, as well as very elegant for such a huge structu... Read More

BIM and the Panama Canal

2016

Here's a great article I discovered on constructiondigital.com (link) on the latest redevelopment of the Panama Canal. The interview is with Nick Pansic, deputy design engineer, and Michael Newberry, design engineer, of MWH Global, one of only two U.S. firms involve... Read More

Darren Tims from Rice Daubne

2016

Below is a great video of Darren Tims from Rice Daubney Architects in Australia.In the video Darren gives a fantastic overview of how Rice Daubney are using BIM (Building Information Modeling) in their work flow and the benefits they are gaining from it. This is esp... Read More

Using BIM in secret

2016

I was recently reading an interesting article by Robert Klaschka a Principal Director at Studio Klaschka (the full article can be viewed here).It was a good article on the Long view of BIM from the point of an architectural practice. The part I found particularly in... Read More

BIM content testimony

2016

We've recently been running a survey to collect testimonies and insights into how architects & specifiers use BIM content (Revit families, ArchiCAD objects etc) and why they find it so valuable.The results will be reported here on this blog. With the first one h... Read More

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