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In this Viewpoint article, Dexter Bachelder, Aconex VP Americas, argues for the need to drive construction project success through neutral, trust-based collaboration. To consistently complete large-scale construction projects on time and on budget, AEC firms have to develop a collaboration strategy and mechanism that will work for all the stakeholders in a project, allowing them to operate efficiently with a level of trust usually developed within a single organization or team.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_55.html
In this Viewpoint article, Dr. Don Mclean, Founder and CEO of Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) discuss what radical changes need to be undertaken to the design process, changes in mindset required, and the important role Building Performance Analysis software plays in enabling the Lean, Clean, Green approach that is needed to achieve zero-carbon building design.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_54.html
In this Viewpoint article, Viktor Várkonyi, CEO of Graphisoft, discusses the implementation of “open” design collaboration workflows, which are in the best interest of all parties involved in an AEC project, given the plurality of their design tools and processes. He explores how BIM can bring the benefits that have been achieved by the individual design disciplines to interdisciplinary design collaboration as well, by providing a new level of transparency and integration of design processes for building projects of any type or size.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_53.html
In this Viewpoint article, Al Douglas, President of a private consulting firm in Kanata, Ontario Canada, discusses the dramatic technological and methodological changes underway in the AEC industry, and the main vehicles of delivering this change: BIM, IPD and a developing open standard called COBie. He then zeroes in on an important component that is required to make all of these effective—content management and the collaborative role it plays in the lifecycle of a building.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_52.html
In this Viewpoint article, architect and educator Randy Deutsch assesses the design and construction industry’s current efforts to produce and analyze vast amounts of information and proposes a call for a synthesis of its technology and collaborative work processes.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_51.html
In this Viewpoint article, architect and technologist Bill Dickens, discusses the importance of systems and taxonomies, and proposes a taxonomy of only 21 Building Systems to cover the complete set of architectural, engineering and construction tasks. The concept is based on his work developing logic diagrams of the AEC process as a Systems Analyst at Smith Hinchman and Grylls, where he scheduled the 300,000sf SUNY, Stony Brook Medical School.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2010/issue_50.html
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