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The BIMForum is not accepting proposals for the Fall BIMForum conference, October 17-19, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The Fall BIMForum will explore best practices in professional coordination from Architects, Engineers, Builders and Owners. We encourage proposals to thoughtfully consider how project stakeholders have addressed the following: Establishing a collaborative environment Organizing the coordination process Conducting truly effective coordination meetings Measuring the real-world results of professional coordination Owners’ engagement in the coordination process Design Assist and its impact on coordination Handoff from design coordination to construction Use of LOD (Levels of Development) Submission Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2016 at 5:00pm EST To submit, click here .

I have been looking for cost effective ways to bring BIM to the field wondering what options other people have found. I have used Glue in the past, but it's very expensive. While I have not used it, I do have some colleagues that are using the MS Surface successfully. But I don't own a surface and not very many of those on the jobsite. What have you used and what are the pros and cons?

Building Information Modeling: What’s in a Name? Recently, I participated in the BIMForum in Boston, where the topic about "Design Optimization" drew a record crowd of professional attendees. Early and often, the presenters referenced "BIM" (Building Information Modeling) as a term or concept, with notable attention to the "I" (Information) in BIM as a key point of emphasis in successfully optimizing design. The term Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been around over 20 years, and the concept of representing buildings digitally and spatially has been around about twice as long as that. You might think that a group of professionals dedicated to discussing and advancing BIM would be able to hover around a common definition for the term, or even a common term itself. Yet, there was more than enough perversion and variation of the term BIM to suit any number of viewpoints: painfully-redundant "BIM Models," not-quite-synonymou...

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