Tag: BIM

Facility professionals with strong leadership skills are increasingly in demand at healthcare and higher education institutions.

A new report by the National Institute of Building Sciences Consultative Council highlights four areas where the industry and the nation need to focus their efforts in order to improve buildings and infrastructure.

The city's Department of Buildings inspectors can now take a virtual tour of how a new building or major renovation will be constructed.

At $9.5 million, rehab of the university’s first research building for the college of architecture exemplifies innovation and preserves the legacy of Bauhaus-influenced functionalism.

A new science education and research center at Georgia State University fosters innovative collaboration.

This new resource details how design-build teams can make the greatest use of a technology that is transforming the A/E/C industry.

Using the latest devices, it is possible for fms to measure a space far more accurately, with less disruption to employees, and in a fraction of the time it would have taken with an old fashioned tape measure.

Building Information Modeling can help facility managers stay up to date.

Water conservation measures are no longer the stuff of science fiction books or disaster films. The pressure is on for large consumers to cut back.

Columnist Tom Condon illustrates how the comic book fantasy of x-ray vision may be closer than anyone could have imagined.

Are there any facility management (FM) software packages that read BIM models that are rich in data?

As a result of this agreement, I2SL and IFMA will be able to address a variety of topics, from operations and maintenance training for high-tech facilities to using BIM as a facility management tool.

Facility managers optimize the data they gather by integrating the information systems that manage it.

The BIM objects for the company's FlowGuard Gold and Corzan pipe and fittings have been adapted for download through the Autodesk Seek search engine.

TFM Columnist Jim Elledge takes an in depth look at BIM.

Facility managers can use the RoofGenuity modeling tool to discover the optimal roofing configuration for their buildings.

The two companies will integrate BIM data from Autodesk software products with FM:Systems' facilities software to support enhanced building operation and maintenance.

In late August 2009, OSCRE announced that IFMA had awarded OSCRE CEO Andy Fuhrman the Association's highest honor and designation of IFMA Fellow.

An Introduction to Building Information Modeling is available as a free download from FacilityBlog.

The survey revealed that 93% of respondents believe there is a significant gap between international design practices and onshore construction realities for large-scale developments in India, characterized by the many challenges facing the development community today.