BIM Overview

BIM is well suited to the changing methods of practice our industry is adopting. Design-Build, Project Alliances, Build-Operate and Integrated Practice projects all benefit from the use of BIM.

White Papers
View PDF	Build as one: A practice methodology for the building industry Today, building enterprises around the globe are applying best practices and the technology solutions that enable them. Bentley is proud to provide these solutions, and to support these enterprises as a trusted provider. Architecture, engineering, construction, and building operation practices would be well-served to learn about these successes and the technology solutions that enable them, and evaluate how these successes and solutions relate to practices, challenges, and aspirations as firms move to build as one.
View PDF	Industry Foundation Classes (IFC): BIM Interoperability Through a Vendor-Independent File Format buildingSMART International, formerly the International Alliance for Interoperability, is an alliance of organizations within the construction and facilities management industries. Its mission is to contribute to a sustainable built environment through smarter information sharing and communication. It also develops and maintains the specification for Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), an open vendor-independent neutral file format that captures both geometry and properties of ‘intelligent’ building objects and their relationships within building information models. This facilitates the coordination of information across incompatible applications, which is a prerequisite for improving building workflows using building information modeling (BIM) methods. The process eliminates the high cost and waste created by inadequate interoperability.
Case Study Videos
Watch video	Sydney Opera House and Beijing National Swimming Centre (The Water Cube) Stuart Bull – Arup
Watch video	Faster, Better, Cheaper, with 3D BIM Robert Stevenson, PE – Ghafari Associates L.L.C.
Watch part 1  Watch part 2  Watch part 3	B&W Pantex Processing Facility David Fouche’, AIA- Senior Technologist CH2M HILL Stephen Forman, PE- Project Engineer B&W Pantex

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