This post briefly explorers the intriguing relationship between two industry-level parameters: BIM Leadership (innovation, investment, etc…) and BIM Benefits (reduced errors, fast-tracking, etc…).
Episode 12: BIM performance measurement
If BIM implementations by teams and organizations are to achieve the much touted increase in productivity, these implementations need to be measured, compared against some sort of industry benchmarks and – most importantly – independently certified. Without measurement, organizations offering design, construction or operations’ services have no basis on which to improve their processes and deliverables. Without benchmarks and certificates, clients aiming to employ these organizations have no consistent way of understanding their BIM competencies.
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 …
Episode 4: BIM vs. Partial BIM
Adopting the graphical language of Figure 3.1 (Episode 3), a Building Information Model is sprung into digital existence whenever the object-based model includes different data colours; inter-disciplinary information generated in two or more disciplines or domains. That lacking, the model can only be labelled as a partial BIM. This episode is available in other languages. For a list of all …
Episode 3: Focus on Information
"Architecture does not create buildings but creates information that creates buildings" An elaboration on a quote by Robert Sheil, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London [1] BIModellers do not depict nor encode the full scope of industry knowledge even within individual sectors (Architecture, Engineering or Construction). To express the matter differently, we first need to decipher what is really …
Episode 2: Focus on Modelling
Not all models or modellers qualify as BIM. Although there are neither clear definitions nor umbrella agreements of what constitutes a Building Information Modeller, researchers and software developers alike allude to a lowest common denominator. This episode is available in other languages. For a list of all translated episodes, pleaser refer to http://www.bimthinkspace.com/translations.html. The original English version continues below: This …
Episode 1: Introduction
The BIM EpisodesExploring the boundaries of Building Information Modelling We all may have read various definitions of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and most do not provide a comprehensive understanding of the evolving term. This article is no different; it is yet another attempt to define and understand the ever changing boundaries of the BIM concept as well as the ever …