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The BIMForum has scheduled sessions that will occur at AGC’s Building Division Meeting, to be held at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, FL. 

BIMForum specific sessions will start at 8AM on Wednesday, January 23, and will wrap up end of day Thursday, January 24.  Other Building Division meetings and activities will continue until January 26.  BIMForum sessions will include working meetings and presentations for all levels of BIM implementers.

More information will be available shortly.  In the mean time, please contact Dmitri Alferieff This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Laura Handler This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

The title really says it all – now is the time to register for the BIMForum Fall Working Meeting.  See our conference page for meeting details and to register.

The BIMForum has schedule its fall working meeting for October 11 – October 12 in Boston, MA. 

Meetings will start on the 11th (Thursday) at 8:30am and wrap up at 4pm on the 12th (Friday).  Active BIMForum members and interested parties should save the date!  More details will follow over the next few days.  Contact Laura Handler This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with any questions.

The BIMForum got together last week at the Pinehurst Resort for a series of presentations, discussions and working meetings.  During the first session, over 75 BIMForum members and AGC members learned about how HIGH Concrete is using Tekla for precast concrete, high definition scanning from METCO Services, the GSA’s most recent activities, GE Johnson’s process for systems coordination, design analysis from KlingStubbins and how BIM is changing Turner’s process.

The academic subforum started developing curriculum; the software subforum discussed education and training the industry.  The builders and designers subforums worked together to define a process that the industry could adopt to better utilize building information modeling.  A task force, made up of members of the two subforums, was created to continue the work on the process.

 Presentations and reports are available on the forum .

The BIMForum membership will continue to work on these issues until they reconvene this fall, outside of Boston, MA.

BIMForum members will be congregating at the AGC Building Division Meeting from June 20th until the 23rd to continue and expand discussions on national standards, academic curriculum, legal documents, interoperability and other BIM-related issues. The goal of the work of the attending members will be to produce practical, usable deliverables such as model exchange documents and a best practices guide.

One of the most anticipated meetings is the joint subforum meeting between the Designers’ Subforum, the Builders’ Subforum & the Legal Subforum.

The three groups will get together to discuss the scope of design v. construction work in the model. So many people think, at some level, that BIM tends to blur the distention between design and construction; therefore, these same folks might think that it follows that you can’t draft a contract to delineate what is a design deliverable from a construction deliverable. This discussion will focus directly on this issue, so that the members will be in a better position to articulate the differences.

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As BIM is integrated into current AEC practices, the lack of national standards becomes a larger concern. Last month, at the AGC Building Division Bi-Annual meeting, the BIMForum decided to make the issue a priority.

Subforum leaders Davis Chauviere, of HKS Inc., and David Sandlin, of GE Johnson Construction Company, lead the discussion on developing a standard. Chauviere asserted that although the official National BIM Standards will be developed by National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS), the BIMForum can take a “first pass” at it.

The BIMForum anticipates that their draft will serve as a standard for BIM-users until NIBS develops a more comprehensive standard. The BIMForum will also submit their draft to NIBS, so that NIBS can utilize it in developing the National BIM Standard. As a first step, the BIMForum intends to relate model components with construction deliverables. This will clarify the expectations of parties receiving models as well as educate parties creating models.

BIMForum leaders and other interested members will convene virtually on February 21st at 1 pm EST to discuss the standard. For more details on that meeting, contact Laura Handler.

Earlier today, the new BIMForum website was launched.

John Tocci, the chairman of the BIMForum, will reveal the new site to BIMForum members at the AGC Building Division Bi-Annual meeting. The site reveal is one of several invigorating initiatives that will be kicked off at the meeting.

The new site is aimed at presenting a user-friendly overview of both BIM and the BIMForum. The site features feeds from the BIMForum and relevant news topics, keeping users up to date on activities on all fronts.

Although the new site will give a comprehensive overview of BIMForum activities, the BIMForum’s forum will still function as the BIMForum’s core. To access all relevant details or participate in discussions, continue to log into the forum (via the link on the upper side of the navigation bar).

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