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.…
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…
Autodesk are taking the piss
One of the most frustrating things about working with BIM tools is how pathetically bad they are, especially tools from Autodesk. Take Revit for example, it was the love child…
Get me the turds/hour analytics, STAT!
Sometimes you wonder if the people writing project BIM requirements are taking the piss. I can excuse the LOD 600 requirement that was included in an RFP a while back…
Digital Twins – The new, unwanted buzzword
First there was “Virtual Building“, a Graphisoft trademark they use to differentiate between ArchiCAD and what was referred to as “Flat CAD”, the 2D drafting board analogue from Autodesk, which…
When is a Questionnaire not a Questionnaire?
Hong Kong’s Construction Industry Council (CIC) are tasked with implementing the government’s BIM initiatives and have employed US bean counter led engineering consultancy AECOM to drive the development of a…