In this article, Scott Boutwell, a management consultant, talks about cleantech, green technologies, and sustainability and draws parallels between these market trends and the adoption of BIM (building information modeling) in the AEC/O industry.
This article captures the highlights of the AIA TAP 2008 conference that was held as a pre-convention workshop to the AIA National Convention and Expo last month. It covers sessions related to the new concept of building information networks, BIM and sustainable design, guidelines for energy modeling from an environmental design firm, and a look at how one firm has formalized its use of BIM into a business strategy by drawing up a BIM map.
In this guest feature, Sohail Razvi, an analyst in Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM), first describes the “Capability Maturity Model Integration” (CMMI), a process improvement model for the development of products and services developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University over many years. He then proposes developing a “Building Information Capability Maturity Model” based on the CMMI that can benefit the AEC/FM industry as it undergoes its current BIM-driven transformations. This will bring the AEC/FM industry in alignment with the constellation of industries that have already benefited from process improvement approaches.
