Integrated Project Delivery – IPD
I think that IPD – Integrated Project Delivery could be as important from an organizational change point of view to the New AEC (is that a good way to describe it?) as BIM. The other critically important 3 letter acronym is VDC – Virtual Design and Construction. In fact they all go hand in hand, and if treated as a system, the cummulative effect is going to result in something much... [Read more]
Impressive BIM Case Studies Detailed at Ecobuild 2009
I was a little bit concerned when I entered this large conference room for my first Ecobuild session this afternoon and there were only 10 people. It got worse. Just as we were supposed to start a staff member announced that the session was cancelled. At least there were not a LOT of disappointed people. On to my 2nd choice, which I have to say was worth the cost of the trip. The session was titled,... [Read more]
buildingSMART alliance
I am going to be attending the National Institute of Building Sciences 2009 Annual meeting beginning early tomorrow morning. One of the meetings that is co-located with this event is the buildingSMART alliance International Conference. I will be interviewing Deke Smith, the Executive Director of the US chapter on Wednesday. If you have any questions that you would like me to ask him please let me know. In... [Read more]
Civil Design Software Link to Machine Control
Since we were on the subject in the last post, I wanted to highlight this important announcement from Autodesk and Trimble. I believe this important because it demonstrates to me that two of the key players, worldwide in their respective industries, are at the very least addessing the issues that were identified by Randy Noland in the last blog post. The free (we like that) extension provides for... [Read more]
3D Machine Control and Guidance
Unfortunately I don’t have any hands on experience with machine control and guidance. I have spent a lot of time on “dirt” projects, but I have been out of the field too long to have worked with this increasingly important 3D AEC technology. That’s not the case for Randy Nolan, Editor of Machine Control Online. I recently connected with Randy and we agreed that although there... [Read more]