Sweet
Just a short tale today of a contractor meeting with his client the big infrastructure operator along with the consultant who designed the work for the contractor. The contractor spent…
Trying Everything to get out of stuff
This post is our first submission from BIM McAuditor who shares a particularly ghastly example of another multi-national design consultancy trying to weasel out of their contractual obligations on a…
Our new website mascot
Hats off to the National Fisheries Development Board in India, a wonderful example of mimetic architecture. The three-story, 1,920-square-meter structure was designed this way by the Central Public Works Department…
Why do we even bother…
Can you imagine being a designer at Tesla, coming up with innovative and cool ways to make the whole driving experience as easy, painless and downright fun as you can.…
No, we haven’t died
It’s been a while since the last BIM bollocks update. Our many avid readers were worried that we had gone the way of pro-democracy Hong Kong newspapers, and folded. Well,…
When BIM Bollocks becomes BIM Bellingcat
It do be like that; you’re just minding your business, doing some stuff, and then suddenly you’re an investigative journalist. Well, that’s exactly what happened to the BIM Weasel recently.…
Acronym Soup
It is true that BIM is a niche filled to the brim with acronyms. In rather an overuse of the things, it is often necessary to include an entire appendix…
Mentees, not manatees
I was recently fortunate enough to find myself invited to a webinar/workshop where I was introduced as an “expert” and mentor. Now I’m fairly happy for people to call me…
IT Managers: How not to support BIM
During the early stages of a large infrastructure project I was involved in circa 2014, it was decided to deploy Revit Server to support the team of 50+ architects and…