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 preparing for the interview I spent some time on the buildingSMART alliance website. First of all this is a very technology focused organization with a vision and mission statement  that on paper sounds like it is interested in many of the same issues as this blog. It says that the bSa was  created to “spread technical… support for digital technology in the real property industry”. Reading a little further it is stated that BIM is the technology of choice for unifying the industry. Many of the leading preexisting NIBS programs led to the creation of the bSa.

As noted previously, there is no shortage of organizations out there with similar ideas, but from what I am reading the bSa seems to be focused on the really important issues that I think will lead to significant change. They are certainly a group that you should pay attention to and support. If anyone has been directly involved with this group I would appreciate your thoughts.

More after the interview.