Online-based BIM collaboration is helping to deliver the Royal Wharf development in London’s Docklands, as Phil Lattimore reports
Tag: BIM
Setting the standard – new BIM guides on security and health and safety
As the layers of BIM standards get more and more complex, it is important to identify the most useful protocols. CIBSE’s Carl Collins examines two new guides on security and health and safety
What BIM will look like in Digital Built Britain
Sensors we design into systems will provide the data infrastructure to fuel Digital Built Britain, says CIBSE’s Carl Collins
Becoming ‘the normal one’
Being a team player is important in BIM. Hurley Palmer Flatt’s Thomas Lindner shares his reflections as a post-heroic building information manager
Time to shine – BIM in lighting design
Much of the tedium can be taken out of the lighting design process by using BIM, says CIBSE’s Carl Collins – giving lighters time and opportunity to create more inspiring designs
Digitisation will force industry to standardise
Design tools will have to speak the same language for services to benefit from automated building engineering, says Atkins’ Isabelle Smith
The challenge of creating a BIM model for an imperfect Victorian home
The BRE’s Dan Rossiter summarises the difficulties of creating a digital record of a 19th century home
Embedding BIM into the FM solution at Wharfedale Hospital
A retrofitted BIM model can transform the way maintenance is planned and undertaken. BAM’s Phil Palmer explains how the contractor used BIM at Wharfedale Hospital in Leeds
From first to last – BIM at Birmingham City University
BIM data has been used at Birmingham City University, from concept design to operation. Hoare Lea’s Sadie Adams, Sabrina Gill and Alec Mabbott explain how they extracted full value from the project data
All in it together
Despite survey results to the contrary, Melanie Robinson says that the industry uptake of BIM may be lower than everyone thinks