Apr 26 2011
The theme for the spring issue was "What Does It Cost Not to Do BIM?" With many bemoaning the cost of implementing BIM, we thought we would look at the impact of not implementing BIM. The cover story by Michael LeFevre asks the question "Why Wouldn't You Implement BIM?" With all due respect, to Seinfeld and the Soup Nazi "No Bim For You" is the subject of the cover. Michael certainly fails to identify any good reasons for not doing BIM. Birgitta Foster follows with an article about ensuring that maintenance is fully considered during design as a way to have a lifelong impact on the operation of the facility. Doing so will have a profound impact on the costs an owner must bear over the life of the facility. We then look at how BIM is being used as a municipal management tool in Jay McBride's article. This is followed by some case studies where PIM is added to the mix in Bob Batcheler's article. A must read article is the one by Dr. Raymond Issa where he looks at six completed projects done without BIM to see where BIM could have helped by avoiding change orders. If that does not make the case to use BIM for you then you may as well go back to ink on linen. We round out the issue with articles by Robert Yori on education and professional development and just how important education is to getting it right. There is an article on the 7th AIA TAP Building Connections meeting which looked at some of the areas we need to improve our message. The closing article by Dr. Bill East on the Life Cycle Information Exchange (LCie) project ties together all the information exchange projects Bill is working on, COBie being the most infamous.
The topic for the fall issue of the Journal of Building Information Modeling (JBIM) was announced today: The National BIM Standard – United States™. With the release of the first consensus version of the NBIMS-US planned for the end of December, it seems fitting that we dedicate the fall issue to this significant event. We will cover content related issues as well as the positioning of the NBIMS as the foundation for a worldwide open BIM standards effort. We will also address the follow-on editions of the NBIMS-US and what other countries are planning as far as release of their versions of the standard. We welcome your abstracts which are due June 1st. The selected authors will be notified by July 1st and you will have until August 15th to turn in the completed articles. For more information on submissions as well as advertising in the JBIM, please visit: http://www.wbdg.org/references/jbim.php.
