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 [...]
1. Should the focus be on technology or process?
2. I think process as technology can come and go.
3. The challenge is to integrate 3D technologies into the AEC process continuum such that we become more productive and our projects more energy efficient.
The primary sponsor for this annual event is the National Institute of Building Sciences – NIBS, but there are a number of other organizations co-locating at this venue including Ecobuild America, the buildingSMART Alliance, the Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council – the list goes on and on. It all takes place in Washington, DC [...]
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 can’ t think of a better place to start this journey than with this report – Innovating for Better Buildings. Developed by two of the leading organizations in this arena – Nth Power and Fraunhofer USA, the authors are Brian Walsh, Bryan Urban and Sebastian Herkel.
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 [...]