Annual General Meeting

Greetings,

The buildingSMART Annual General Meeting is taking place next Tuesday, 27 November.  It will be a teleconference from three locations indicated below.  The time will be 4.30 pm in Sydney and Melbourne, and 3.30 pm in Brisbane.  If you can not attend those locations, but wish to participate, please send me an email and I will attempt to make arrangements for you to connect with the meeting.

This has been a very busy year for buildingSMART.  With the active participation and support of Project Services - Queensland Department of Public Works, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Building Commission of Victoria, and the CRC for Construction Innovation, and many others, we have significantly increased the programs we are promoting and our outreach activities.  We provided an important BIM stream for the National Conference of the RAIA in Melbourne in May, and last week we hosted an International Forum for the IAI in Brisbane, which included a number of outreach activities.  Internationally, buildingSMART chapters agreed to lift funding for our International activities by approximately a factor of 10.

We also agreed to aggressively promote development of IFC capabilities for Australian and New Zealand software in the environmental area.  This initiative was promoted Internationally by this chapter, and we will be preparing a template for use by other Chapters to promote this agenda.  BuildingSMART has also become a member of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council, and we are working to promote more sustainable outcomes in our industry.  With the dramatic increase in interest and use of our standards, pressure is mounting rapidly to assist software vendors and users in supporting software development and project teams.

Only financial members have voting rights at this meeting.  If you wish to join, please see our web site for details.  (www.buildingsmart.com.au)

The final room allocations have not been determined, please check our web site closer to the date for these details.  Please direct any questions to me, my contact details are shown at the bottom of this email.  The meetings will be held at the following locations:

Sydney
Royal Australian Institute of Architects
NSW Chapter
'Tusculum'
3 Manning Street
POTTS POINT NSW 2011

Melbourne
Royal Australian Institute of Architects
Victorian Chapter
1st Floor
41 Exhibition Street
MELBOURNE VIC 3000
PO Box 18025
Collins Street East,
Melbourne, VIC, 3008

Brisbane
CRC for Construction Innovation
Level 9, L Block
Queensland University of Technology
2 George Street
Brisbane, QLD, 4001

We look forward to seeing / hearing you next week.

Regards,

Michael Hund
Secretary / Treasurer
buildingSMART / IAI-AC