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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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This article, authored by Michael Tardif, Director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems at Grunley Construction Company, Inc., discusses the rationale for the agcXML, which was developed by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) in collaboration with NIBS as a standard to support the exchange of business information during design and construction.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2009/issue_49.html
In this Viewpoint article, Eric Lamb, Dean Reed and Atul Khanzode of DPR Construction, Inc., analyze the rapid adoption of BIM technology from the perspective of the “Hype Cycle” devised by research and consulting firm Gartner Inc., which captures the over-enthusiasm and subsequent disappointment that typically occurs when a new technology is introduced. Based on DPR’s extensive experience with implementing BIM as well as working on several IPD projects, they provide suggestions for the AEC industry to move beyond the hype of BIM technology and for architects, engineers, contractors and owners to maximize the rewards of adopting and integrating BIM into their business.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2009/issue_48.html
In this Viewpoint article, Dr. Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Assistant Professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California, and her graduate student, Samara Rice, discuss the results of a recent survey they conducted as part of a research project aimed at determining the return on investment (ROI) of BIM.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2009/issue_47.html
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