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Cost Estimating in BIM: The Fifth Dimension

This article compares cost estimating in building information modeling (BIM) to the traditional process of cost estimating. Professional estimators know there is more to cost estimating in BIM than simple automation of estimating from objects to spreadsheets.

IES Releases New LEED-Friendly Software

Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software and consulting services for sustainable building design, has added climate exploration, water reviews, low zero carbon technology consideration and analysis for certain LEED credits to its VE-Toolkits. The updated VE-Toolkit enables architects and master planners to choose from sets of typical properties and provides users with more detailed, highly visual and rich-text reporting. With these new features, IES offers rapid feedback on LEED and sustainability analysis to improve architects' overall productivity from the earliest stage of the design process.

ACI Forms New Technical Committee on BIM for Concrete Structures

The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced the formation of a new technical committee on building information modeling (BIM) of concrete structures.

BIM allows project designers to create a digital model that represents a building or structure to ensure proper interface among building systems and materials before construction begins. ACI believes BIM's main advantage lies is that the digital model is "data-rich and intelligent, not merely lines representing

BIM Technology Enables Design of 55,000-Seat Stadium in Four Weeks

Autodesk Inc. awarded its latest BIM Experience Award to Max Bogl Group, the largest private construction company in Germany, for its recent work on a 55,000-seat National Stadium in Bucharest, Romania.

The schematic design of the design-build project, built in partnership with Italy-based Astaldi, was created in four weeks using Autodesk Revit Architecture software. The Max Bogl team then used Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software to produce design visualizations and cinematic-quality walkthroughs for a strategic bid presentation that convinced the client to abandon its official design and move forward with Max Bogl's more visually striking design.

Texas A&M Professors to Help BIM Software Speak Common Language

A team of architecture professors at Texas A&M are aiming to improve buildings’ design and energy efficiency by providing standards for data exchange among disparate building design software systems through research from a national engineering society’s 15-month, $175,000 grant.

Texas Adopts BIM Requirement

Following on the heels of Wisconsin’s recent decision to integrate Building Information Modeling on state design and construction projects, Texas is now the second state to roll out mandatory BIM implementation. The Texas Facilities Commission (TFC), which oversees the state’s real estate developments and facility operations, made the announcement in mid-August, with an addition announcement that it would release standardized requirements and guidelines in the near future.

BIM Strategy: Leveraging your Organization for Profit & Growth -- A Webinar Series

Field BIM: Using BIM to Improve Processes & Productivity
Wednesday, September 2nd * 1:00 (EDT)

Building information modeling (BIM) is the future of the construction industry. WPL Publishing and Construction Project Controls & BIM Report will present BIM Strategies: Leverage your Organization for Growth and Profit -- a four-part webinar series to help AEC professionals leverage BIM to grow their businesses and cash in on this evolving technology. For details, Click Here.

Mortenson Construction Wins Autodesk Award for BIM Implementation on More Than 100 Projects

Autodesk Inc. has awarded its Autodesk BIM Experience Award to Minnesota-based Mortenson Construction for its use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) on more than 100 projects since 1998 at a total construction value exceeding $6 billion. Mortenson Construction is also being recognized for its use of Autodesk software for BIM, including Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and NavisWorks, on projects ranging from resort hotels to the Harley-Davidson Museum.

BIM: Reinventing How We Do Business

For the past year or two, the AEC industry has teetered on the tipping point of mainstream acceptance of Building Information Modeling. But even so, AEC professionals across the board are wondering what exactly it means for their businesses. “BIM is … reinventing how we do business,” said Deke Smith, executive director of the buildingSMART alliance. Smith and colleague Michael Tardif, director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems for Grunley Construction Company, partnered with WPL Publishing to address BIM strategy in the first of four webinar presentations on BIM implementation.

Turner Named Leading BIM Contractor

Turner Construction Company has been recognized as the leading contractor in the adoption of BIM technology in Building Design & Construction's 2009 Giants 300 rankings. Through Turner's commitment to integrating technology into the delivery of its pre-construction and construction services, the company's portfolio of projects utilizing BIM represents more than $20 billion of construction on 100 projects.