Deke Smith

BIM Handbook

deke.smith@cyon.com — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

BIM Handbook, A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors by Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholtz, Rafael Sacks and Kathleen Liston recently published by Wiley with a forward by Jerry Laiserin is the first scholarly text of its kind for building information modeling. It covers the subject well and provides a lot of good insight as to what tools are available and what is possible today with the tools. It also takes a glimpse into the future of where this whole effort is headed. This is a fast moving target and it will also be fun to look back at this book in ten years as the baseline of what it looked like in 2008

New edition of JBIM available

deke.smith@cyon.com — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT

buildingSMART alliance™ has published its second edition of the Journal of Building Information Modeling. The cover story about BIMStorm™ is by Kimon Onuma. There are other articles covering the latest concepts in this exploding industry. It will be available in PDF on the buildingSMART alliance web site (www.buildingsmartalliance.org) soon and will be in print in a couple of weeks.

National BIM Standard Released

deke.smith@cyon.com — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

The National BIM Standard was released recently by the National Institute of Building Sciences. A portion of the announcement follows:

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Institute of Building Sciences’ (NIBS), Facility Information Council (FIC) announced today that the Executive Committee for the National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) project has released the National BIM Standard Version 1 – Part 1: Overview, Principles, and Methodologies for public use. This document, which includes contributions by more than thirty subject-matter experts in the capital facilities industry, incorporates industry comments and now contains new and expanded information about the NBIMS production and use process.

This document is a major step forward for the industry as it undergoes its transformation. As companies transform they are amazed that they operated under such primitive conditions for so long. The transformation does require accepting some significantly different ways of doing business. Drawings are not the focus anymore; the model is. All coordination is done in the model, then the drawings are essentially just a report. Coordination with all disciplines and conflict analysis is easily accomplished.

For more information visit: http://www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim/index.php

BIM Storm - A transformational event for the construction industry

deke.smith@cyon.com — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT

With my work as Executive Direector of the buildingSMART alliance, I come across many interesting events - this, I believe, is something of extreme interest that you may want to participate in. Once it is complete, let's spend some time discussing the impact on the industrey as a whole.

BIMstorm™ Los Angeles | 31 January 2008
BIMStorm LAX was a simple concept in December 2007, and is becoming a “Woodstock” for the building industry. BIMStorm LAX is a free event that will involve a wide cross section of building industry professionals to design over 30 Los Angeles city blocks encompassing 30 million square feet in real-time.

Forty years ago an event changed the culture of the world.
Join us for 24 hours of collaboration, harmony and to change the culture of the industry.

Date
31 January 2008

Visit http://onuma.com/services/LaStorm.php for lots more information and to get involved.

AutoDesk aquires NavisWorks

deke.smith@cyon.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:00:00 GMT

AutoDesk acquisition of NavisWorks - Good news or not? What are your thoughts?

National BIM Standard Version 1, Part 1 - Overview, Principels and Methodologies Industry Review Announced.

deke.smith@cyon.com — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT

The open standard which has been under development was announced today. The industry review period runs till May 21st.

Education for BIM

deke.smith@cyon.com — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT

There is a critical void in the education process for teaching and understanding BIM

Introduction

deke.smith@cyon.com — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT

Just wanted to introduce myself to my fellow bloggers. I am currently leading the efforts of many in development of the National BIM Standard. I am also involved in the development of buildingSMART as I am on a task force with several IAI and NIBS BOD members working out a charter, business plan and funding strategy. Our goal is to accelerate the implementation of building information models and building information modeling. The focus of course is on information and we are lookng way beyond 3D visualization to essentially building a building virtually before physically. Working out as many problems as possible electronically. I am interested in hearing the stage everyone is at in implementing BIM and what we can do to help. I know education is a huge issue both at the university level and continuing education for the practitioner. Let me know what you are thinking about this subject.