buildingSMART 2010

buildingSMART AC Board - new member

Following the new board voted in at last year's AGM we are very pleased to announce an additional board member, Suibhne Cullen, MEP/BIMCAD Manager at Arup in Sydney. We look forward to Suibhne's special discipline interest in building services and the world leading expertise from the Arup organisation whose reputation in the modelling domain is widely known and respected. Welcome Suibhne!

As always we are looking for industry representatives to work with us to bring wider participation from the various Built Environment sector interests.

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BEDP National BIM Seminars gets off to a Flying Start

BEDP hosted its first Practical BIM: Now and In the Future

seminar in Sydney on Thursday 9th and attracted a diverse and large audience of 140 attendees. Engineers were the largest group, signalling a much bigger takeup of BIM over the last year and for the future. Adrian Pilton of JPW Sydney representing BEDP thought the range of presentations and their quality was excellent and had given him an unprecedented insight into the current capabilities of building information modelling.

BEDP is to be congratulated on an excellent beginning for the series, and industry people in Hobart (Tuesday 23 Feb), Melbourne (Wed 24 Feb), Adelaide (Tue 2 Mar), Perth (Wed 3 Mar) and Brisbane (Tue 9 Mar) are encouraged to attend this excellent series (go to BEDP here).

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Digital Modelling Guidelines (DMG) - new working group announced

With the completion of the CRC for Construction Innovation in December last year, there has been some misgiving about whether the DMG work would continue.

buildingSMART Australasia is pleased to announce that it has agreed with the CRC-CI to host the DMG Documents from this website (get the Guidelines here and the Case Studies here). Complementing this, a DMG Working Group has been established to be lead by Scott Beazley, who was the project manager for the Guidelines development. Scott is from TAFE Woollongong and has a strong interest in BIM. Please contact Scott here.

DMG Workshops will be held shortly to bring together the interested parties in as many capital city locations where feasible to start the work of reviewing the guidelines, prioritising development etc.

Note: A review of the guidelines is currently nearly ready for publishing and will be announced soon here.

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International User Group Established

At the buildingSMART international Council meeting, held in Washington, Dec 8-10th 2009, an inaugral meeting of a new international User Group was held.

For more detail see here

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4D/5D Workshop 2010 - postponed

Due to international business commitments Matthew Boot has had to postpone this workshop. We will announce it as soon as we can.

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Continuing initiatives by buildingSMART Australasia:

BEIIC BIM Working Group

buildingSMART is a member of this working group, established by Minister Kim Carr through the Built Environment Innovation Council (BEIIC). Several meetings have been held and buildingSMART's draft proposal for a formal economic study on the benefits of openBIM to support industry innovation in Local Government, facility development and GHG reduction has been tabled. The overview is available for download here

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Currently sponsors to support the cost of the study are being sought from the construction industry associations with several - AIA, Natspec, buildingSMART, now WA, Atlas and DIISR - already committed.

This is a key study that will determine the poductivity gains BIM technology could sustain. If your industry organisation is willing to to support this initiave contact the BEIIC Secretariat or John Mitchell

Product Information

buildingSMART has identified the importance of rich product data for BIM users. It is working with product manufacturers, Government and Industry to create product information in an open object format that can support the Industry's takeup of BIM.

buildingSMART's goal is to assist product manufacturers convert their disparate product information into objects that are accurate 3D representations, have rich data describing key physical, performance and commercial properties and be in a format that all relevant parties of the Built Environment can share from inception to operations and management.

We note that this subject is one of the new National Research Centre  at present under consideration and we endorse the importance of a national solution for product information.

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