buildingSMART 2009

Are you interested in an International Design competition in Norway?

Statsbygg, the Norwegian Government building agency is holding an international design competition of a very different sort - not only the design of a prestige new building for the National Museum of Norway on the Vestbanen site, part of Oslo's harbour area, but to be submitted in openBIM format. Enter now by going to the competition site here

buildingSmart Australasia will assist any Australian architects wanting to participate

buildingSMART workshops continue...

Over 60 attendees met at the Melbourne workshop. For feedback contact Michael Hund or Guillermo Aranda-Mena (see contacts below).

buildingSMART Workshop 4: BIM and Health Facilities.

Continuing the series, a workshop is being held in Perth, in association with BEDP and the Australian Institute of Architects WA Health Architecture Committee on the subject of BIM and Health Facilities.

The meeting will be held on Thursday 7 May at 5.00 PM, at the  University of WA Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, in G.22 Lecture Theatre at the end of the CULLITY GALLERY
 
ADMISSION IS FREE

For registration contact Warren Kerr (tel 0409 103 452) or John Mitchell (0410 318 131).

BIM the next wave: Collaborative Practice and Design Automation

Co-ordinator Guillermo Aranda-Mena has brought together a diverse range of speakers;

• Fender Katsalidis Architects - to present on Design Automation
• Lyons Architects - Collaborative Practice (to confirm - with a case study)
• Andersen - New Directions on Structural Design Automation

Guillermo will briefly talk on the most recent BIM research including the National Guidelines and Cases Studies

and his current work with CIFE at Stanford University. A Registration flyer is available here.

 Melbourne Workshop Flyer

 

• Sydney Tuesday 17 March - Costing & BIM was hosted at the Sydney Opera House, and
• Adelaide Monday 23 March - Engineering & BIM hosted by the Engineers Australia South Australia Chapter, Adelaide

These are meetings to start discussions about how BIM can be potentially used in these disciplines, what it means for practice, issues that are hindering wider use etc.

Next Workshops will address Health Facility Design (Brisbane and Perth), Product Information (Auckland and Sydney - new, date being organised) and Design Collaboration (Adelaide - new, date being finalised).

If you think a particiular topic should be added please contact any of the Workshop contacts (see the workshop details in Upcoming Events).

Register now!

Current initiatives by buildingSMART Australasia:

• the development of a formal policy proposal to the Federal Government on the benefits of openBIM to support industry innovation in Local Government, facility development and GHG reduction. A recent report of the STANDINN project in Europe has developed a handbook soon to be published, and will be an important resource for our Australasian considerations.
• holding a National Conference 10-12 Sep 2009, located in Sydney, on the theme of collaboration, moves to integrated practice and adoption of new proceurement models. Speakers will address local and international project presentations. A feature of the conference will be training workshops in the use of openBIM and exchange processes, with a wide variety of collaboration scenarios.
  
• 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. Already BPIC are developing Life Cycle Inventory data to support sustainability and the proper measurement of embodied energy. 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 commercail properties and be in a format that all relevant parties of the Built Environment can share from inception to operations and management.