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BIM Episode 11: The difference between BIM Capability and BIM Maturity
The Story Let’s start with a short story about two AEC organisations that – once upon a time – decided to adopt Building Information Modelling. Both organisations were mid-sized firms, operated within the same market and had the same mix of disciplines. Both were able to undertake large Design and Construct (Design and Build) projects of value exceeding $200m within …
The BIM Framework: an Academic Perspective
Many of ThinkSpace’s readers are academically-oriented and may be interested to know that the BIM Framework has now been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Automation in Construction (Volume 18, Issue 3). The Framework is the basis of most BIM episodes published so far and has allowed the generation of many BIM implementation and evaluation tools (more about that in …
Episode 10: Effects of BIM On Project Lifecycle Phases
This post discusses how BIM will first blur the lines separating different project lifecycle phases: Design Construction and Operations. As model-based collaboration takes hold, lifecycle players start moving into each other’s territory until finally, as network-based integration becomes the norm, lifecycle phases overlap extensively causing major changes within industry.
Episode 9: BIM Steps
The adoption of BIM by an organisation will not happen unintentionally and definitely not in a single giant leap. In fact, it will be deployed through intentional decisions passing through major milestones referred to as BIM Stages. These stages – if well defined – are very useful to understand BIM concepts and visions but are – on their own – not usable in implementation. Further subdivisions are needed: smaller incremental changes that each organisation can make to reach each major Stage, mature within it and then attempt to reach another. These ‘feetstones’ or micro objectives are called BIM Steps. The difference between BIM Stages and Steps is that stages are radical or transformational changes while steps are incremental/evolutionary changes or maturity levels.
BIM News Bits – Interesting Developments
I try not to to blog industry news but sometimes it feels ‘irresponsible’ not to do so. However, I’ll follow the three BIM Nodes logic in my reporting: On the Technology front: the emergent Microsoft Live Mesh technology deserves some attention… Would an enterprise version enable a different approach to BIM Integration (Stage 3) alongside Model Servers and what I …
BIM and the Process Improvement Movement
It gives me pleasure to introduce a guest author to BIM ThinkSpace – Sohail Razvi. Through the wonders of web-based professional networking, I met Sohail and we started a discussion that continues to date. This is Sohail’s first web contribution into the topic and I’m delighted he’s chosen BIM ThinkSpace for his well-thought piece. The below article explores a new …
Episode 8: Understanding BIM Stages
While BIM Stage 1 only needs a BIM application and a champion and Stage 2 needs two players and the will to collaborate, Stage 3 needs much more than that. The Integrated Practice will need a systematic understanding followed by systematic consolidation of all relevant Technologies, Processes and Policies…It may be a long deployment road ahead of us but it’s surely a scenic one
Episode 7: Understanding BIM Nodes (BIM Fields)
The confusion in BIM discussions and implementations can be dramatically reduced by systematically analysing the larger-than-life concept. We’ll do that by subdividing Building Information Modelling into its basic components and then relate them back to each other in a – hopefully – meaningful and useful way.
Episode 6: A systematic understanding of BIM
Building information Modelling can be a very difficult topic to define. Just try to discuss it with a colleague and – more probably than not – you'll end up discussing endlessly overlapping topics. For example, you start to discuss BIM's effcts on industry and you end up comparing software solutions. Or, the topic starts with how to collaborate around the …