A Euro Vision: What Brexit could mean for planning and building projects
Remain or Brexit?
With the European Union (EU) Referendum looming, the potential implications and debates surrounding the two choices – whether to stay or go – are becoming increasing visible to the British population. A departure from the EU will result in the UK making its own amendments to laws...
Connect4 Becomes First United Arab Emirates Printing Company to Install HP Pagewide Technology
Connect4 broke new ground today with the installation of an HP Pagewide XL 8000, the first HP Pagewide printer to be installed in the United Arab Emirates. Connect 4 anticpates that the printer’s high speed, print quality and production efficiency will put them one step ahead of local competitors.
Reduced...
Installation of HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer Allows Sadiq to Target New Business Opportunities
HP announced that UAE-based print service provider, Sadiq, has installed an HP PageWide XL 8000, the company’s first HP printer
Sadiq provides print services and office supplies to 72 technical consulting offices working on construction projects. As the operation is small in size, it is vital that its print solution...
The importance of BIM certification
Drew Wiggett, Head of Production Information, assesses how important BIM certification for BIM objects is for the construction industry…
There is no doubt that awareness of BIM continues to grow, and both the client and supply sides of the construction industry are taking BIM seriously.
The help and leadership provided by...
BIM3 Initiatives Launched by Government – but what about BIM2?
The government has launched its building information modelling (BIM) level 3 initiatives with a view to implement in 2025 and aim of improving data security and accessibility, scrapping paper contracts and driving infrastructure-spending efficiencies.
Here, David Wigglesworth, Managing Director of UK Specification, a division of ASSA ABLOY UK, looks at...
Are you ready for BIM?
Kirsty Walker, Marketing Manager of Man and Machine discuss how making the right choices to begin your own BIM journey and maximise the return on your investment is critical…
Established in 1989, Man and Machine is part of a pan-European group, operating in 11 countries, with over 750 staff and...
Realising a BIM solution
Building Information Modelling, Computer- Aided Design, and Visualization projects are becoming more complex and demanding, is your hardware is up to the challenge?
Enhanced workstations for professionals in the design and construction industry are now essential to help them realise their full potential and reduce business operating costs. Only by...
PROFILE: Business Collaborator for BIM
Adopt our Semantic BIM Platform today and realise the benefits for your asset’s lifetime…
Data, data, data
Admit it. When you think of BIM the first thing that pops into your head is a 3D model. That’s fine. You’re only human. And those 3D models look really nice, so we don’t...
PROFILE: BIM – what’s stopping you from starting?
As the industry moves forward, so are many companies with their BIM projects and pilots. There is however, still a reluctance to embrace the technology, with many companies dragging their heels. Less than a quarter of building services contractors and consultants are currently using products with full BIM information....
The BIM menu of information
Steve Thompson, Chair of BIM4M2 and Market Manager for Construction and Infrastructure at Tata Steel discusses the game-changing potential in efficiency improvements that BIM offers, but says it will only be deliverable consistently with clear definitions of what information is required and a menu of information for a project...
PROFILE: Wienerberger BIM objects now downloadable directly from its website
1 April 15: Wienerberger, the leading provider of wall, roof and landscaping innovations, launched its fully functional Building Information Modelling (BIM) portal on its website called BIM Lab in April 2014. BIM objects from Wienerberger can now be downloaded directly from the Wienerberger website www.wienerberger.co.uk/welcome-to-bim-lab or via BIMStore.
The portal...
Large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM
Neill Ryan, CEO of VRM Technology Limited asks if large scale refurbishment and retrofit using BIM is worth it?
Neill Ryan is CEO of VRM Technology (VRM), a software company based in London and Dublin that provides a cloud based collaboration and invoice management platform, Refurbify, to the construction industry....
BIM for surveys – a model of excellence
Through a combination of its highly experienced, knowledgeable personnel and the latest cutting-edge technologies, Murphy Surveys is at the forefront of delivering expert survey solutions.
Commenting on the growth and expansion of the company since its foundation, Kai Duebbert, Managing Director of Murphy Surveys explains:
“We’ve grown considerably and established ourselves...
BIM — The bigger picture
John Adams, BIM Product Owner at 4Projects by Viewpoint describes what BIM means…
At the Viewpoint North American user conference in Portland Oregon earlier this year I presented the theory behind Viewpoint’s BIM strategy. Because our goal of developing the best Common Data Environment in global construction is heavily influenced...
The practical challenges of BIM
Hinesh Mistry, Water Global Technology Leader – BIM, at CH2M HILL outlines the current challenges of BIM, but also the confidence within industry that challenges can be overcome…
In 2012 the UK Government mandated that construction firms must achieve Level 2 Building Information Modelling (BIM) on all central government projects...
Putting the ‘I’ in Existing Building BIM
Studio Klaschka have been working with Kier Construction and the Clearbox Team to provide a series of existing building BIMs. Having been producing these models one thing that has surprised me is that the specification of existing models seems to be ten years behind new build BIM which has...
PROFILE: BIMXtra delivers an integrated digital handover
Andy Boutle, BIM Manager at Kier Construction Eastern outlines the benefits of using BIMXtra…
In what is otherwise a complex manual process, Kier Construction and LSI Architects have delivered an integrated digital handover of some student residences for the University of East Anglia using the leading edge Clearbox solution, BIMXtra....
PROFILE: Innovation in Vectorworks BIM
Read Axiom Architects story on getting started with BIM…
THE PRACTICE
Since Axiom Architects was founded in 1986, the practice has grown from its origins in Lewes, East Sussex, to become a well-established company with experience in a variety of sectors from hotels, bars and restaurants, to offi ces, residential schemes...
Getting our BIM data in order
Martyn Horne of the Landscape Institute’s BIM Working Group explains why BIM data in the form of COBie requirements is not something to fear…
To paraphrase the former Chief Construction Advisor to the UK Government, Paul Morrell, BIM is an opportunity for the construction industry to get its data in...
BIM – the digital wave detox
John Tebbit, Managing Director at Robust Details Ltd outlines his concerns about BIM and how the digital wave should be seen as the equivalent of a detox by getting rid of unnecessary processes…
Early in 2014, as a deputy chief executive of the Construction Products Association, I set up BIM...
“BIM, Digital Life and the Third Industrial Revolution”
“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin
Do you remember the ZX Spectrum? Commodore 64? Amstrad PC? Betamax and VHS? How things have changed! Then there is the internet, email, and the like. Facebook has 1.2...