Can a single BIM model be used from design to operation? Schneider Electric was keen to find out if true BIM was achievable at two flagship new buildings in Grenoble. The company’s Bertrand Lack describes the not inconsiderable challenges to Andrew Pearson
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Object lessons – workshop on creating product objects for BIM
Ahead of the launch of a new competency scheme for manufacturers creating product data, CIBSE and the Society of Digital Engineering hosted a workshop that shone a light on the issues around creating product objects for BIM. Alex Smith reports
BIM is dead. Long live digital engineering
By choosing the functions of BIM that fit the profile of our projects, we can add value to clients, says Hoare Lea’s Andrew Krebs
How BIM helped restore the Spanish City pleasure palace in Whitley Bay
Restoring the Spanish City pleasure palace in Whitley Bay meant installing many services in the Grade II listed building for the first time. Mott MacDonald’s David Ridley explains how cloud-based BIM helped real-time collaboration to preserve the heritage of the building
Using cloud-based BIM to design London’s Royal Wharf development
Online-based BIM collaboration is helping to deliver the Royal Wharf development in London’s Docklands, as Phil Lattimore reports
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