BIM Use Growing on Construction Sites
BIM offers architecture, engineering, and construction firms a way to streamline many elements of the construction process digitally. Clash detection and creating an as-built model for the client, for...
View ArticleBIM: How to Create Real Change in Your Company
While it sounds like a meaningless platitude, that statement has a truth at its core, and can be particularly useful in bringing about effective change to foster productivity gains or greater...
View ArticleBIM Enables Faster and Better Infrastructure Development
“Over 1.3 billion people—almost 20 percent of the world’s population—still have no access to electricity. About 768 million people worldwide lack access to clean water; and 2.5 billion do not have...
View ArticleHolographic Making Waves Within the construction industry
Using holograms, the user can pin their digital content, such as apps, information, and even multi-dimensional videos, in the physical space around you, so you can interact with them in the same ways...
View ArticleTechnology Skills Drive Architecture Demand
In its April-June Quarterly Report, recruitment outfit Hays said demand for architects remains healthy across eastern states and is improving in South Australia courtesy of private and government...
View ArticleAnalytics in the Construction Sector
That’s changing as firms adopt BIM and systems to gather data, for example. Analytics, too, is helping firms make better use of the masses of data that they’re collecting, giving them the ability to...
View ArticleThe Digital Construction Sites
Their use cases, however, differ markedly, according to Nicolas Arnold of software firm HoloBuilder, which makes applications for 360° photography. Laser scanning, specifically terrestrial laser...
View ArticleBIM and the Quantity Surveyor
In fairness to the design professionals and the clients, quantity surveyors traditionally have not embraced the whole BIM process. Yet BIM is here to stay, and now is the time for all quantity...
View ArticleCAD is Dead, Long Live CAD
This cloistered technician who suffers the whims of delivery teams as a personal affront to efficiency; we are approaching the extinction of a species and seeing the last of their kind. I’ve had the...
View ArticleArchitects Need Cultural Fit to Secure Roles
In a new report, recruitment outfit Hays says architecture firms have shifted away from needing large headcounts to service large projects and are looking to more strategic and innovative hires who...
View ArticleBIM Must Be Used Throughout the Whole Building Life Cycle
As things stand, substantial knowledge is lost as the design team hands over to the builders and again when the construction team hands over to the building owner and facilities manager. As a result,...
View ArticleAustralia Needs a National Object Library for BIM
That is how Mark Tait, head of commercial development at Investa described the fact that Australia does not have a national object library for Building Information Modelling (BIM) at the recent Digital...
View ArticleCritical Concepts for Successful BIM Implementation
Throughout Australia and much of the world, the most significant benefits associated with Building Information Modelling (BIM) accrue during the operations phase of projects.
View ArticleAustralia Must Embrace Digital Mapping and Reality Modelling
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View ArticleCritical Strategies Needed to Maximise Value from Revit
Across most sectors of the economy, industry specific software can deliver advantages.
View ArticleQuantity Surveyors Must Not be Locked Out of BIM
Around Australia, take-up of BIM from architects and designers has been strong in recent years. Alas, this is not the case for quantity surveyors.
View ArticleHead Construction Contractors Should Embrace BIM
In a presentation to be delivered at the upcoming BILT event in Brisbane on May 24-26, John Holland Planning & Program Manager – Building QLD/NT Chris Pilcher and Design/BIM Manager Daniel Schaefer...
View Article5 Criteria’s to Select BIM Partners
Virtual Modeling services plays a pivotal role in the design and development, Pre-construction and Post construction processes.
View ArticleDeveloping a Technology Strategy to Capitalise on the Emerging Digital...
New digital technologies like BIM and virtual and augmented reality have the power to transform many aspects of the construction industry, but they have yet to find their way into mainstream...
View ArticleBIM the Value Creator, not a Cost Factor
The construction industry, in dire need to keep pace with innovation and be more productive, must embrace digitalization.
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