BIM

  • BIM Transforms Concrete Construction

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  • AIA Posts Updated Digital Practice Documents for Public Comment

    AIA addresses the changing landscape of building information modeling with updated digital practice documents.

     
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    Five Big Ideas for the Concrete Industry

    Change is happening within the concrete industry--here's how.

     
  • The Concrete Industry's Strategic Development Council Sets Meeting for This Spring

    The concrete industry’s Strategic Development Council (SDC) has announced its upcoming Session #31 this spring to address several issues and initiatives facing the concrete industry.

     
  • ACI Development of BIM Information Delivery Manual for Cast-in-Place Concrete Receives Industry Support

    A working group of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) Committee 131 on Building Information Modeling (BIM) is actively developing an Information Delivery Manual (IDM) for cast-in-place concrete.

     
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    BIM Productivity

    BIM can help internal productivity.

     
  • Trimble Field Link

    Trimble Field Link lets contractors communicate information quickly, accurately, and remotely.

     
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    Applied Systems Associates Inc. ProConcrete

    ProConcrete is a 3-D CAD software tool used to model, detail, and schedule reinforced concrete structures.

     
  • Common BIM Software Serving the Construction Industry

    This article presents a list of available BIM software in the construction industry and each software's strengths.

     
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    Changing the Way We Build

    What's happening in the world of building information modeling (BIM)? A better question may be what's not happening?

     
  • Tekla BIM Software

    The BIM software provides a model-based solution where construction details are stored in a 3-D model.

     
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    Surveying and Layout Work

    The market trend continues toward contractors buying into sophisticated surveying technologies.

     
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    Concrete Technology Today and Beyond

    With lower volumes of work in a slower construction market, companies are challenged to be smarter, better organized, and more productive.

     
  • Building Information Modeling Provides Consistency in Data Collection and Maintenance

    BIM processes allow facility managers to consistently collect and manage information and potentially decrease construction time and costs

     
  • Uniting Technologies

    R.R. Simmons Construction Corp. has always been at the forefront of tilt-up design. But the multidisciplined service provider, headquartered in Tampa, Fla., also is leading the industry in implementing Building Information Modeling (BIM) and LEED techniques, as evidenced by its new corporate office...

     
  • ACI Seeks Presentations for 2010 Convention

    ACI Committee 118, Use of Computers, seeks presentations for its technical session "Building Information Modeling in the Concrete Industry." This session will take place during the ACI Spring 2010 Convention in Chicago, Ill., March 21-25, 2010.

     
  • The BIM Boom

    Building information modeling (BIM) is a buzzword in the AEC industry, but is it hype or substantive? First, one must understand that BIM is not just 3-D.

     
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    Considering BIM?

    Building Information Modeling (BIM) is more than a fancy 3-D CAD program. Typically it is described as real-time, dynamic building modeling software that increases productivity in building design and construction.

     
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    The Truth About BIM

    What is BIM, anyway? What most people in the construction world mean when they use this term these days is “building information modeling.”

     
  • Bim and Tilt-Up: Working Together

    BIM techniques provide constant and immediate information on the project design, schedule, and cost that is reliable, integrated, and fully coordinated with the entire project team.