Construction Industry Forums

BIM Benchmarking

2008-01-25T10:16:35Z

BIM technology intends to create a common platform that the project team (owners, designers, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and facility managers) can use to collaborate and ensure total quality management of the building process. What BIM quality management measures has your organization considered or implemented to support this effort? Any challenges?

BIM Requirement for contractor as part of Project Specifications

2008-07-24T12:59:36Z

Are many architects inserting BIM requirements into their SPECs?

I want so bad to beleive in BIM now (electrical firm)

2008-09-15T17:56:53Z

I have worked for a resller and was involved with Revit MEP (then called Revit Systems) and now work for a large electrical design-build. The program is seriously lacking in content for the electrical firms to embrace and that there are severe limitations to have the program do what we need it to do to be able to create a set of drawings that would need approval of the AHJ. I understand all too well that the BIM products are not CAD. I understand the limitations that CAD has and BIM products like Revit MEP have to improve upon CAD. I feel that all of the benefits that the movers and skakers are touting dont work in the real world at least on the electricl side. So much of what we do is dia-grammtical and there is no way for instance to tie our one-line power diagrams in to the model. The lighting calcualtions are of no real value to electrical engineers so we still need to do the calculations outside of Revit. I have every reason to believe that the BIM is the future. What I am having a real hard time with is if that time is now. On many occasions I have spoken with Architects and tried to inform them on how young and incomplete the Revit MEP (BIM product ) really is, where as the Revit Architecture/ Structure are well developed. So what happens MANY electrical firms are faking it by doing most of the work in AutoCAD and importing it into Revit.

My other issue is that our industry throws around BIM and a larger portion of the industry still are ill-informed just what that means. I have been in several key meetings where the General and the Arch stated this was going to be a BIM only project only where in truth it was just 3D coordination which I can easily do in CAD, not that I would want to. The issue 3D coordination ISNT BIM. I want to believe, again having woked hand-in-hand with Autodesk, only to feel like the industry isnt nearly as ready as it beleives it is. I have felt on many occasions where Autodesk didnt help and the folks that tried have been out of the industry so long there examples on how to intregrate BIM are unrealsitic. I know BIM is the future but how can it help my company now? I want to be able to inform my company in a manner that is honest, whetehr good or bad.

BIM for Coordination Drawings

2008-07-23T20:22:16Z

Many subcontractors are using BIM technology to create coordination drawings.

Will the rising cost of energy accelerate the adoption of BIM?

2008-06-10T12:45:39Z

As energy costs sky rocket, it would seem logical that fully understanding the Total Cost of Owernship (TCO) and sustainability information for a building will become increasingly more crucial at the design stage.

BIM is intended to help architects, contractors, and owners recognize these benefits. How is the community currently approaching this challenge and what are your plans to leverage BIM to help accomplish this?

Will Reed deliver on Tectonic’s many promises?

2008-02-16T19:34:17Z

Now that the “guise” of Tectonic are part of Reed, will they finally deliver on the promises they’ve been making for the past many years?

It all seems to make sense, but I’ve heard the promises so many times from them, I wonder if it’s just going to be the same story coming from the same people with different business cards???

Also, wasn’t Arol the head of Reed at one point, then left to form Tectonic and a few other companies? It all seems kinda like dejavu…