#ukbimcrew

A considerable amount of the projects I work on now tend to be refurb in existing buildings. What I try to push is the use of point cloud surveying, and the associated benefits that come with it. The most obvious (nearly) immediate benefit is that we receive TruView data from the surveyor, meaning we have multipoint 3D photographs, with measuring facilities (pinch of salt there). 

Obviously, I’d love to post loads of photos of how intrusive this can be, especially when the project is 150 miles away, and I need to check one little detail, but with the security and privacy some of these projects command, a simple photo below is all I can really show:

Last week I was given the chance to do a talk for the RIBA, at their #BIMinBirmingham event at the newish Curzon Building by AA and Wilmott Dixon . This was something our practice had never spoke at before, so we decided to try and do something a little different. 

Images by ‘Images of Birmingham http://www.imagesofbirmingham.co.uk/media/a68a441e-ffa3-4c67-84a6-a8e464504911-the-curzon-building-the-eastside-campus-for-birmingham-city-un

I’ve attended many BIM events over the years, and there seems to be a strong similarity between them all in terms of content. In my eyes, we’ve seen the BIM ‘wedge’ too many times. However, I totally understand that its hard to include everyone, especially if you jump into modern day BIM, and newbies can get quite lost in the theory that you’ve just skipped over. 

We decided to talk about Clients in BIM, however, we decided to talk about an experience of a client, design team, and contractor that didnt see the need. The story was of how we swung them round, then held their hand through the experience. Result? First Police project in BIM. First Police project completed ahead of time in BIM, an Award for the contractor for BIM, and a cost saving for the client. All due to BIM. 

We feel it went well, but the organisation was a little clumsy early on, and we had a limited audience. However, I appreciate that I could not have organised this, so great work to all those involved. We also received some great feedback about the presentation. So job done. 

One thing I loved was meeting up with guys I’ve not seen in ages, but I still managed to miss some others due to work deadlines back in the office. 

Yup, I’m gonna bring back the Scandi-BIM Tour. I’ve been inspired, and have some more stuff to chat about ,so keep your eyes peeled!

Wouldn’t it be great if we could collapse all folders instantly because one user has decided to open every single one of them?!

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/collapse-all-folders-button/idi-p/6900774

Thank you to those who were able to attend the latest BIMnet event held 15th September.

Presentations can be found on the BIMnet website: www.bimnet.co.uk   

The sponsor on the evening was BuildingPoint UK  further information can be found at http://www.buildingpointuk.com/

Laura Brown, Principal BIM Consultant at BuildingPoint UK delivered a presentation entitled “BuildingPoint UK: Collaboration Up Close”.  

In addition, Lewis Wenman, Group Manager at Murphy Group presented an overview of “Developing a BIM strategy for a tier 1 infrastructure contractor”.

Details and registration for the next BIMnet event will be announced shortly.