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Building Information Modeling - Featured Headline

EcoDesigner STAR Will Produce Code-Compliance Reports
02/12/13 By Nadine M. Post
In a few months after testing is finished, GRAPHISOFT expects to release a BIM-to-BEM digital tool that allows architects to perform energy-use analysis and to produce energy-code-compliance reports.

Courtesy of GRAPHISOFT

More Civil Works Are Adopting BIM
10/16/12 By Tudor Van Hampton in Milwaukee
Light users of parametric modeling for infrastructure will be in the minority by the end of 2013, says one study.

Photo courtesy of Sundt Construction

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05/15/13	Standard Specification Coming to Help Drive Efficiencies into the BIM Process By Nadine M. Post Level of Development Specification, intended as an attachment to a contract, is designed to enable practitioners to specify the content and reliability of BIMs at various stages in the design and construction process.
05/07/13	AGC's BIM Forum Draft Specification Open for Comment By Nadine M. Post The draft of the AGC BIM Forum's levels of development specification is available for public comment until June 7.
02/05/13	Predictions for the Building Industry, 2030 By By: Guest Contributor, Phillip G. Bernstein How will the construciton and building industry trend towards digital over the next couple of decades?
01/22/13	What's the Problem? By Tom Sawyer ENR is trying to pinpoint its readers Tech problems. Let us know what they are.
12/27/12	Augmented Reality Platform MARS Gaining Fans, Funds By Erin Joyce Mobile augmented reality system holds promise of model-building in minutes.
12/26/12	Laser Scanning for Building Documentation: Illuminating, But Not Necessarily Enlightening By Joseph E. Romano, PLS, with John Russo, AIA 3D Laser Scanning for Building Documentation Needs Best Practices and Standards
12/19/12	Construction's Year of More BIM, Tablets and Apps By Erin Joyce What were the hottest trends of 2012 in technology and construction? ENR rounds them up and runs them down in this year in review.
12/04/12	iPad Design App Touts Real World Site Data, Satellite Imagery By Luke Abaffy Autodesk says this app does more than other 3D sketching tools, such as adding more site information to the building information model.
11/28/12	New Research Shows Contractors Are Big BIM Users By Harvey M. Bernstein & Stephen A. Jones Between 2009 and 2012, the percentage of contractors using BIM increased from 50% to 74%.
11/14/12	Q&A: Over the Horizon with Dennis Shelden, Gehry Technologies By Erin Joyce The firm's CTO talks about why key AEC technologies matter.
10/17/12	Gehry Tech Launches Latest BIM Collaboration Tool By Erin Joyce Collaboration is gaining use and sophistication on the design and construction disciplines, with the latest offering from Gehry Technologies.
09/18/12	Bentley Picks Up Ivara’s Asset Performance Management Tools By Tom Sawyer Bentley Systems Inc., Exton, Pa., announced on Sept. 18 that it has acquired Ontario, Canada-based Ivara Corp., whose asset performance management software is based on a reliability-centered maintenance philosophy.
09/18/12	NYC Issues New BIM Standards NYC BIM Standards, BIM, DDC, Craig Chin,
09/18/12	Money for Building Information Modeling Will Come Through Addressing Lifecycle Costs By Scott Arfsten Go after the big money, the 75% of facilities cost tied up in operations and maintenance
08/22/12	BIM-in-The-Cloud Has New Competition With Newforma By Erin Joyce Newforma's moves to partner with VEO on BIM tools in the cloud is part of a flurry of bold steps in upgrading project delivery tools.
08/07/12	Building Tall With BIM Brings Gains, Building Long with VDC is the Bigger Game By Guest Contributors Eric Cylwik and Kevin Dwyer Advantages of VDC: construction processes in vertical buildings are often repeatable—and repeated. That helps make that kind of construction a good fit for building information modeling.
07/11/12	FutureTech CIOs: Are You Paving Over a Cow Path? By Erin Joyce in San Francisco Some of the sharpest minds in technology and construction gathered in San Francisco at the ENRFutureTech event to explain the latest innovations changing the industry. Here are some highlights.
06/08/12	Acquisition of Vela Systems Puts Mobile BIM On Autodesk's Fast Track By Tom Sawyer Executives from Autodesk and Vela explain the thinking behind the "fast track" deal that brought Vela into the Autodesk orbit.
06/04/12	BIM Interoperability Standard Is a Step Forward, Not a Major Leap By Nadine M. Post Version two of the nation’s first consensus standard for the set-up and exchange of building information models advances the use of BIM by providing a road map and common language for model-building -- but there is more work to do.
05/29/12	New Interactive BIM Tools for the iPad By Johanna Knapschaefer Matchmaking with BIMs and iPads
05/28/12	Making the Case for Automated BIM Review By Tom Sawyer Proof-of-Concept AutoCodes Project convincingly demonstrates need.
05/28/12	BIM Standard May Boost Sharing By Nadine M. Post in Washington, D.C. Beta testers laud the nation's first consensus-based standard for sharing building information models of different software vendors.
05/07/12	How Ready Is 'BIM-Ready'? Online Assessment Tells All By Tom Sawyer Enthusiastic users expand low-profile U.K.-based service’s subscription base through word-of-mouth
04/30/12	Laser Scanning Hits Tipping Point By Tom Sawyer Annual SPAR Laser Scanning Conference Brimmed with Optimism
04/04/12	3D RFIs, Collaboration With BlueBeam's Latest Revu 10 By Erin Joyce Bluebeam Software has released its latest version of its signature product, Revu 10, which pushes the envelope with more cloud storage integration, collaboration support and project communication.
03/30/12	The BIM Strategy Behind Balfour Beatty's Software Deal With Autodesk By Tom Sawyer Balfour Beatty PLC is stepping up its support of new software and digital tools that underpin full lifecycle use of building information modeling around the globe. Here's why a recent deal with Autodesk is a key part of the strategy.
02/13/12	Online Map Logs NYC Energy By Luke Abaffy New online tool presents energy consumption estimates at the individual building level.New online tool presents energy consumption estimates at the individual building level.
01/11/12	From Videogrammetry to Real-Time Roof Dimensions By Luke Abaffy A new technology that uses videogrammetry to deliver 3D views as big as a building and derive real-time digital measurements of nearly any object with 15-mm precision is being refined and readied for commercial use by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
01/11/12	Why BIM Will Become Even More Important in 2012 By Mike DeLacey, President, Microdesk Guest Commentary: Microdesk president Mike DeLacey asks, “how can we not only position ourselves to bid on new infrastructure projects, but also execute the projects more effectively and sustainably in the long run?”
10/05/11	Where are We Going in Construction? Do the Math By Michael Avramides, AIA How is innovation affecting the construction profession? Sometimes you have to review the basics to understand the trends. In this guest commentary, architect Michael Avramides does some of the math to plot some tech trends.
09/09/11	Case Study: Facilities Management as Engineering Deliverable By Steven Ross Using tablets and simple software inputs, engineers working on the on the Weill Cornell hospital upgrade are improving their deliverables.
07/25/11	First U.S. Consensus Standard on Building Information Modeling Due at Year-End By Nadine M. Post After years of chugging along, the development of the nation’s first consensus-based standard for building information modeling is finally picking up steam.

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08/05/09 Bending BIM to Design Utilities Breaks New Ground
08/05/09 Building Information Modeling Boosters Are Crossing That Bridge
04/29/09 Modeling Spurs Architect To Reorganize Divisions of Labor
04/29/09 Digging into 3D Modeling Unearths Many Worms
04/29/09 Leading Off With a Hit,New Yankees Home Scores Big
04/29/09 Not for the Faint of Heart, Expecting a Win By Taking on BIM
04/08/09 Building Team Members See Progress and Problems
02/10/09 Multi-Discipline Design Tools Updated With BIM In Mind
10/22/08 Building Information Modeling Contract Documents Arrive
07/02/08 Industry Is Setting the Stage For BIM Collaboration
04/02/08 Army's BIM Approach Worries Industry Firms
10/17/07 BIM Survey Delves Into Users' Desires and Expectations
10/17/07 As New Tool Lands on More Campuses, Students Seek 'A' in BIM
04/02/07 Building Groups Seek Unity on Interoperability and BIM

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