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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
The AEC (UK) Standards Committee appears to be a model organization doing some very important grassroots, standards development work. Being involved with the development of a LiDAR data interoperability standard I know how challenging a task that can be. As the Committee notes, with respect to their recently published Phase 1 BIM Standard, this isn’t [...]
I think that a primary role of this effort should be to define and advance the 3D AEC technology agenda. As we are doing this we need to hold the key players and influencers accountable for making this happen. For this to have any impact I need your help to build significant grassroots support. I look forward to working with all of you to accomplish this important task.
I am very pleased to be launching this new blog in association with Jeff Thurston and Matt Ball at Vector1 Media.
The name of the blog pretty much says it all in terms of focus and interests.
I think the next decade will be seen as the “3D Decade” by the AEC industry.
Welcome. I am not [...]