Building Performance Analysis and Carbon Footprint

Green Building Studio is launching a BIM platform independent training course focusing on hands on approach in integrating the existing available software within the context of Building Performance Analysis. The name of the course is “Carbon Neutral Building Design” and if you long to find more about it, the course outline is posted on their web.
I am really looking forward to this event, and just in case that any of ACA (former ADT, still can't get used to it!) users are wondering what happened to their gbXML plug-in, the word is out that it will be released in a couple of months.

Where did BIM go?

At the center of SOM’s visionary design process was AutoCAD®. “AutoCAD was incredibly valuable, and not just from a final documentation standpoint,” says Frechette. “We took individual parts of the building, modeled them in 3D in AutoCAD, extracted the information, and imported that data into a variety of other programs for analysis. It offers a common language that can be used in so many different areas.”

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Revit Architecture 2008 - Review

...it is important for BIM vendors like Autodesk to continue to invest some of their resources into broader R&D efforts rather than on simply improving what they have developed so far. The latter is undoubtedly important for day-to-day usability but it is the broader research and development that will lead to real innovation and ultimately shape the future of BIM.

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by Lachmi Khemlani, 27th of June 2007

BIM Buzz

Another unbiased article that tries to shed some light on the methodology whose definition is still quite illusive, Behind Building Information Modeling Buzz .

Nurbs Surface in Autocad Architecture

Approximating Nurbs Surface in Autodesk Architectural Desktop... the article was published in Hagerman & Co. Technology bulletin in June of 2005

Learning how to walk.....

I would definitely recommend this article to everyone that contemplates their position and role in the brave new world of BIM. Nigel Davies is one of the very few people out there that manages to circumvent BIM hysteria and deliver a sober and measured view on how to adopt the new methodology while maximizing its capacity within the boundaries of one’s true need assessment...(Mis)understanding BIM

BIM a porter

In over twenty years of implementing and using digital technology, both as an engineer and later as an architect, the most valuable lesson I have learned is the one of “critical practice”. Unfortunately, even though BIM as a methodology is nothing more than a transplant from more advanced areas of industrial production, it is truly amazing to see the extent to which acceptance, without scrutiny, is being preached over the last two years. Due to the nature of my work I happen to be more or less aware of the current status that BIM has in a large number of architectural firms of various size, and the datasets that are in circulation within those same offices, as well as in between different disciplines on the same job, are a far cry from being BIM compliant. Isn’t it high time to slow down and try to focus on core functionality and interoperability, versus creating this more than ideal picture of “shall” before “have”. Let us see a benchmarked project, completed and fully exposed in the public domain as a case study that can be dissected and scrutinized for the benefit of the entire AEC community. Implementing BIM should be a learning process that transcends the individuality that is still admired as a defining characteristic of any architectural office. Such methodology should create a solid foundation for not only more efficient design but also that which has achieved its materialization through iterative analysis and has proven the test of time. In today’s culture of blitz marketing and short lived commodities, it is hard to become a believer in “sustainable” when methodology itself has become prêt a porter.