Last Chance to Register for the buildingSMART International Standards Summit and National Conference: Montreal
October 18th - 21st
There are just ten days until the buildingSMART International Standards Summit and Canadian National Conference will get started. Don't miss out on your ticket!
Join the keynotes, national conference, and Room days. During the week there will be two social events, an Opening Cocktail Night on Tuesday, October 18, and Thursday, October 20, bSI is pleased to host the Annual Gala and Awards Ceremony.
buildingSMART International is delighted to be hosting the 2022 Summit in person, however, this will be a hybrid event, so there is still the option to join us virtually.
The finalists for the buildingSMART openBIM Awards Program have been announced. All finalists will present during the buildingSMART International Standards Summit in Montreal. Join us at the Awards Ceremony Gala Dinner to find out who will be the overall winners!
In the last two and a half years, bSI has been educating the industry about Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs), Model View Definitions (MVDs), Information Delivery Specifications (IDS), and other well-known industry abbreviations. Unfortunately, there has been a limited understanding of what an MVD is for a long time. With the new IDS standard and the new MVD policy, bSI would like to clarify the situation for the industry.
A New Video for the Professional Certification Program
The Professional Certification Program can help users become BIM certified. Want to find out more? Check out this video that explains the various levels of the program. Did you know there are over 100 approved training providers around the world?
Steel Construction Expert Panel - Call for Participation
October 10th 2022, 10:00 to 12:00 (CEST).
Calling all steel construction professionals, architects, fabricators, planners/designers, owners/operators, consultants, academics, building authorities, software vendors, end users - and anyone interested in steel construction and prefabrication.
The Standards Committee of bSI has approved an Activity Proposal for IDM/MVD for steel construction. Now, the Building Room Steering Committee and the Steel Construction project team invite you to participate in a preliminary Expert Panel to learn more about the Project Proposal, status quo in steel construction in the context for BIM as well as best practices.
This expert panel is intended to help incorporate further opinions and expert views into the work of future standards. The experts can continue to provide feedback on necessary revisions and suggest additions.
The UK&I Chapter has a new entity now called nima. This was previously known as the UK BIM Alliance. The vision of nima is "a thriving and sustainable built and natural environment transformed by exploiting purpose- driven data. As trusted advisors, we facilitate the implementation and integration of practical information management practices across our built and environmental infrastructure."
Hosts, Mark R. LePage, AIA, NCARB and Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, return for season two of BUILD SMART! Patrick, former CEO of the International architecture firm, HOK, has been repurposed. Now as the Chairman of buildingSMART International, Patrick will outline a new strategy for the building industry. In this episode, Mark and Patrick discuss what season two will be about, Patrick’s goals for the season, who will benefit from listening, and what listeners will learn.
buildingSMART International and the stakeholders of the aIFC4Rail project are inviting railway companies, software vendors and software developers to join. In the year 2022 and early 2023 the major rail operators expects IFC 4.3 to be available in software products and can prove to support key capabilities required by the prioritized business cases.
If you are interested please get in touch and find out more via the link below.
The PRSC held a workshop in Brussels Belgium from 21st to 23rd September. The event was led by PRSC chair Michel Bohren and well attended including 12 people physically in the room and another 3 taking part online.
Guest speakers from Schindler, Site-Log, and Stora Enso set out the challenges that product manufacturers face when making use of openBIM in their day-to-day business. Common themes included product and sub-product classification, construction logistics, sustainability, loss of data at different design stages and collaboration. The workshop also heard about product data templates for timber products and the Asset Operations Handover (AOH) project from Jeff Ouellette.
Radboud Baayen of the PRSC held a session on direction and objectives which will contribute to the development of the Product Room Roadmap. Michel led the team through a review of the different presentations and a MIRO board-based exercise to prioritize the different topics. Finally, the Product Room agenda for the Montreal Summit sessions were discussed and agreed.
All in all, an excellent few days' work and good to be able to meet in person once again. A summary of the workshop and the Product Room objectives will be provided at the Montreal Summit.
Thanks to our Strategic Members
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