News: Engineering News Record, a US weekly magazine covering construction issues. I thought ArchiCAD Talk would like to know. The BIM issue is current. The GSA, General Services Administration, has a budget of $12 billion per year for construction and apparently wants 3D and 4D information on its buildings.
Read the whole article at enr.com "news."
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Construction for Technology conference
(Photo by Elaine Silver ENR)
Starting in October, when fiscal year 2006 begins, all AEC firms dealing with the General Services Administration will have to include a building information model (BIM) as part of their work proposal. Stephen Hagan, who heads GSA's Project Knowledge Center, said, as he started off the provocative first topic, "To BIM or not to BIM: Owners, Contractors, Engineers and Architects Discuss the Software That Could Change Our Industry" at Hanley-Wood’s new Technology for Construction Executive Forum in Las Vegas on January 18, 2005.
The event, chaired by ENR consulting editor and event moderator Scott Shuster, began with a nine-person panel discussion mining the realities and challenges of BIM–the 3 and 4D building models embedded with detailed specific information about a construction project. It is, arguably, a technology that is poised to change the way projects are built and the way the project players related to each other. The panel included representatives from three of the major BIM vendors, Autodesk, Bentley Systems and Graphisoft as well as successful BIM users and BIM skeptics.
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Jay Shumaker
