Since our last post about the new openBIM event, Build Qatar Live 2012, some new announcements have been made. Awards Announced 5 award were announced, on the Build Qatar Live 2012 website you will find the criteria for each of the awards: The openBIM Build Qatar Li... Read More
The Autodesk Exchange is a great way to source third party add-ons for Revit and other Autodesk products. Inspired by the success of Apple's App Store and others, chances are if you can't do something in Revit you can find an add-on that will. The best part is that... Read More
Autodesk will open new green office spaces this year in San Francisco, Milan, Beijing and the UK. They will be seeking LEED certification for each, which if achieved will bring Autodesk's office who have LEED certification to 13. Autodesk will be using their own sof... Read More
Recently we released our new BIM questions and answers section (you can access it here) as a way of aggregating our Building Information Modeling knowledge as well as that of our growing community of global BIM experts. It has been a great success with users around... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's been an update to what is with little doubt one of the most anticipated new commercial buildings in the coming years, Apple's new campus in Cupertino.The Cupertino council has just released the latest set of plans for the proposed building which looks amazin... Read More
Innovation is a big part of what we do at BIMstop. We are very focused on bringing to the world the very best Building Information Modeling (BIM) process and helping to streamline it across all project stakeholders.This means not only providing as much high quality... Read More
We love getting feedback from our users and the BIM community at large. It helps us shape BIMstop.com to be the best it possibly can.However leaving feedback normally means going out of your way to find the right contact form or email address. So today we've add a n... Read More
Here's a fun video showing how powerful the latest Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools are getting.The below video is demonstrating the latest ArchiCAD 16 which introduces direct modeling capabilities into the native BIM environment with its brand new MORPH to... Read More
BIM content for Miele Appliances is now going live on our BIMstop network.You can download it all directly from Miele's BIM profile at: http://www.modlar.com/profile/miele/The content is available in Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ArchiCAD formats. WIth an IFC export... Read More
As the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) accelerates we are seeing a huge uptake by contractors, especially on larger projects.This is great to see as it shows the true power of BIM in order to bring all of a project's stakeholders together. Increased... Read More
BIMstop's Building Information Modeling (BIM) content search just got faster and smarter.Search is a key part of all modern software products and is by far the best and fastest way to mine through large amounts of data. Far quicker than browsing through hundreds of... Read More
At BIMstop we are big believers in involving the Building Information Modeling (BIM) community in everything we do. BIM is about collaboration and streamlining workflows, this puts the users at the centre of the process.As we build BIMstop.com into the best possible... Read More
Here's a great video presentation which was just sent to us. It was recorded a few years ago at the 8th Members Meeting of CITA EIN ( Construction IT Alliance ) in Dublin on the 23 June 2010.The speaker is Ralph Montague, who is an architect and managing partner of... Read More
The BIMstop profile page is your unique home on BIMstop. Whether your a manufacturer or passionate BIM user, the profile allows everyone else to easily find your content. It also give you a fantastic way to share everything about you and BIM (Building Information Mo... Read More
We've launched a new page on BIMstop: BIMstop CareersBIMstop is growing fast and our market is global. One of the keys to our success to date is surrounding ourselves with great people and allowing them to do great work.Currently we have two types of people we are l... Read More
We've said it before; the most important part of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the "I". Information is the key to BIM and the future of all industries including the Architectural, Engineering and Construction industry (or if you like acronyms, the AEC).BIM... Read More