Virtual design tools are a real growth trend for illustrating delay claims in construction, say contractors and practitioners—with good reason. For one, adding a project's CPM schedules to the ...

This past April, more than 500 AEC professionals—many from Giants 300 firms—gathered in Boston for BIMForum. Now in its ninth year, the group, which is co-sponsored by AGC and AIA, brings together ...

In early 2008, as a storm approached northern Michigan, a 19-year-old construction worker raced to the rooftop of a multifamily building to clear the area of construction debris. Unaware that a metal ...

BIM and Construction Management, Second Edition is a complete integration guide, featuring practical advice, project tested methods and workflows, and tutorials for implementing Building Information ...

Industry-wide adoption of BIM is about more than software - we must also change the way we manage projects BIM is the big topic in our industry right now, and it is all about change. BIM means new ...

The Ritterman Building. Image courtesy of bpr architects. “We took advantage of the UK's regulatory regimes to move to BIM,” said Beaty-Pownall. “In 2013 we changed our working practice and changed ...

OpenSpace BIM+ allows project teams to solve problems faster by comparing as-built conditions to design intent in the office and on the construction site San Francisco, CA /PRNewswire/ - OpenSpace, ...

Sketching has always been an essential part of the architect’s creative process. Case in point, architect I.M. Pei drafted his preliminary design for the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art on a ...

The roots of building information modeling began with a nuclear physicist from Russia, Leonid Raiz, and his development of 3-D computer-aided design (CAD) software. We refer to it today throughout ...