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 term BIMaaS (BIM as a Service – read this and that)? It’s too early to tell but its a space worth monitoring with wide-open BIM eyes.
On the Process side, I’ve been invited to have a look at the Build London Live effort. I’m personally not into grand gestures but I do think such efforts play a valuable role in promoting BIM Thinking within a decreasingly skeptical industry. In fact, I would love to include a couple of clients in a BIMStorm™ if it hits the Asia-Pacific!
On the BIM Policy front, an excellent effort by the AIA and I couldn’t but reproduce the news:
“On May 15th 2008 the AIA released two new model agreements for integrated project delivery. The documents follow concepts in Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide, and provide two levels of design and construction integration. One is a transitional agreement for those less familiar with IPD; the second, a “single purpose entity”, offers a fully integrated way to deliver a project. Get more information about the IPD documents at http://aiacontractdocuments.org/ipd/.”
In summary, the above three bits vary in importance but are all equally welcome BIM News. To achieve integrated project delivery, integrated design solutions or whatever you want to call the BIM climax, a great number of technology, process and policy steps are needed…Which reminds me, I need to upload Episode 9: understanding BIM Steps sometime soon…
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BuildLONDONlive? Having been involved closely, I’m not sure that it was gesture (grand or small), but perhaps it is for others to judge. Of course there were participating teams from Korea, Japan, USA and Chile each of which might count as Asia-Pacific. Take a look at http://www.buildLONDONlive.com for a peek at their results.
Very impressive Nick but I think it’s a bit risky to “show the power of these new paradigms for architecture, engineering, planning and construction” without showing the constraints and barriers of real world implementations. BIM already suffers from its exceedingly high profile and these events risk elevating the ‘BIM hype’ even higher. I’m sure you agree that implementing collaborative BIM is no easy task and showcasing benefits without risks and abilities without constraints is neither accurate nor credible. One might argue that it’s close to reality as a shareware flight-simulator is close to the constraints and responsibilities of piloting a fully-loaded passenger plane. After revisiting the Build London Live site, I’m left wondering whether the industry really needs more ‘spectacular’ BIM shows and awards or do they urgently need smaller, measurable and not so glamorous BIM implementation steps.