This title may seem a little contradictory and frankly rather heavy for your mid-week reading but It’s a topic I’ve been needing to get off my chest. Recently I’ve been thinking about the knowledge gap between tertiary study and the professional industries, and after completing my BAS last year I became even more aware of… Read more
This week we are heading to Las Vegas for the 2013 NAHB International Builders Show. It’s going to be exciting to see so many innovative new products being shown and some fantastic trade booths on display. If you’re at the show this week, feel free to contact us to catch up on all things Building… Read more
BIM content for TruStile is now available on BIMstop. All content can be downloaded from TruStile’s BIM profile here: http://www.bimstop.com/profile/trustile.usa/ It’s great to see a high-end manufacturing company such as TruStile supporting Building Information Modeling (BIM) across multiple platforms, such as Revit, ArchiCAD and Sketchup. Here’s some quick facts on TruStile: Company Founded in 1995,… Read more
Here’s a bit of fun for the end of the week. This video was just sent to us and shows an amazing example of how powerful the modeling tools inside BIM (Building Information Modeling) software are getting. Below is a short teaser video released by ArchiCAD showing a Star Wars Tie Fighter being modeled in… Read more
Fantastic to see that two of the winners of the 2012 International Property Awards, for the America’s, used BIM! Farkasvölgyi Arquitetura used BIM for its two designs - Complexo Andradas and ABC-All Business Center. The firm won ‘highly commended’ for both of these designs. ”With a history of 40 years behind us, today Farkasvölgyi Architecture ‘reaps the rewards’ of… Read more
Someone posted a very interesting comment on our last post on BIM Education and now we would like to take a look at his recommended reading “BIM in Practice – BIM Education”. In our last blog post we discussed how BIM is being developed into University curriculum and questioned whether undergraduate and postgraduate education is responsible for teaching… Read more
BIM education is an interesting topic of conversation. We know that one of the expenses of BIM is training and education; so if we start education early enough will this ease the burden of training costs? According to Barison and Santos’s article many universities, especially those in the US, are adopting BIM into their curriculum, some… Read more
The Business Value of BIM in North America: Multi-Year Trend Analysis and User Ratings (2007–2012) by McGraw-Hill Construction is now out! As posted in our blog in October, the new report follows up on the use and growth of BIM since its last report in 2009. The new report is an interesting one and shows… Read more
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technical topic. Luckily we have such a great network of BIM experts ready to answer any questions or problems you may be having. Also whether your passionate about BIM or an expert Revit user, feel free to contribute to the questions and answers below. If you have a BIM… Read more
The Mercury City Tower may be the new tallest building in Europe but the Federation Tower, also in Russia, is expected in 2013 to overtake the title of the tallest building in Europe. It will also be the tallest concrete tower in the world! Some Interesting Facts The Mercury City Tower is expected to be… Read more
