BIMvoice
Welcome to BIMvoice, the podcast that provides a platform for Building Information Modeling (BIM) professionals to share their perspectives and insights on the industry. In this podcast, we cover a wide range of topics related to BIM, including its applications in architecture, engineering, and construction, as well as the latest trends and challenges facing the industry. One of the key topics we focus on is OpenBIM, a platform-independent approach to BIM that enables seamless collaboration and data exchange among different stakeholders. We believe that OpenBIM is revolutionizing the AEC industry and has the potential to transform the way we design, construct, and operate buildings. Through our conversations with experts in the field, including architects, engineers, and software developers, we explore the benefits of using OpenBIM, including interoperability, flexibility, and data exchange. We also discuss the challenges of implementing OpenBIM and how organizations can overcome them. Our guests share their personal experiences with OpenBIM tools like IFC, BCF, IDS, and provide insights on how OpenBIM is improving collaboration among different disciplines, increasing efficiency, and reducing errors and rework. We also discuss the latest developments in OpenBIM technology and how it is being used in real-world projects. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, contractor, or software developer, BIMvoice provides you with valuable insights and practical tips to help you get the most out of BIM and OpenBIM. So, join us for our next episode and let’s explore the exciting world of BIM together!
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Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Saturday Apr 03, 2021
Dimitrie Stefanescu and Matteo Cominetti are the Co-founders of Speckle.
Speckle is a platform with endless possibilities. It's features can help you deliver state of the art projects, whether you’re using CAD/BIM, parametric design or custom tools. Speckle is the perfect technological base for your company's digital transformation.
Key Features
Data Curation: send data that matters: use Speckle to curate an integrated design workflow.
Interoperability: seamlessly exchange geometry and data between the most popular design and analysis tool of the industry. In almost real time!
Collaboration: real time & remote ready: collaborate across teams and disciplines. Access the data that matters, when you need it.
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Speckle Community
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YouTube BIMVoice#47
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Saturday Mar 27, 2021
Hasan Yumer is the founder and project manager at Integrated BIM.
Integrated BIM is an international team that includes designers, engineers, BIM and project managers who have been delivering design and building information modelling and management services worldwide since 2015. Their mission is to reduce conflicts in projects while maintaining fluent communication, collaboration, and information sharing. They have been successful at reducing construction and production costs for projects by 5-20%, while delivering them at a higher quality, faster speed, and with more accurate deliverables.
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YouTube BIMVoice#46
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Saturday Mar 20, 2021
Konrad Fugas is a BIM consultant working at dRofus in Oslo, Norway.
He can help you with organizing your BIM processes and data management on your projects. He is involved in various impressive projects around Norway and Europe, advising Building Owners, Architects, Engineers and Contractors how to plan and manage the data on projects.
dRofus is a unique planning, data management and BIM collaboration tool that provides all stakeholders with extensive workflow support and access to building information throughout the building lifecycle. Unlike any other planning tool in the market, dRofus was developed directly on behalf of public building owners. Capturing client requirements (EIR), validating design solutions (BIM) against client requirements, management of public standards and equipment planning are core features in the software.
BIM Corner is a blog mainly focused on Building Information Modeling technology. Their main goal is to spread knowledge in the field of BIM and its practical use in construction projects.
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YouTube BIMVoice#45
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Saturday Mar 13, 2021
Antonio González Viegas is an architect and programmer based in Spain. His specialty is solving problems through code.
He loves to learn new things, especially if they have to do with 3D, buildings or video games. CYPE is a firm that develops and distributes technical software for Architecture, Engineering and Construction professionals.
Github Repository
Three.js
The aim of the project is to create an easy to use, lightweight, 3D library with a default WebGL renderer. The library also provides Canvas 2D, SVG and CSS3D renderers.
IFC.js
This library converts any browser into an IFC viewer. It parses IFC entities to WebGL geometry through THREE.js. It is based on web-ifc-three, which is the three adaptation of web-ifc.
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YouTube BIMvoice#44
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Clifton Harness is the Co-founder and CEO at TestFit Inc. with a passion for improving AECO & problem-solving.
Developers, architects, urban planners and more use TestFit’s real-time deal information modelling to win work faster. Produce site plans in seconds and make on-the-fly changes with TestFit.
TestFit’s algorithms and co-creation tools help developers, architects, urban planners and more to solve site plans for hotel, parking or multifamily buildings in seconds. TestFit is The Ultimate Building Configurator. Simply input your building parameters and generate a structure in seconds. TestFit combines user knowledge and powerful algorithms into the first building prototyping solution that produces results instantly.
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YouTube BIMvoice#43
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Christian Dalhuizen presents BIMcollab, the most versatile issue management platform in the world.
BIMcollab Cloud is an issue collaboration platform for BIM, built on the widely accepted IFC and BCF open standards. BCF issues contain all relevant information enabling communication about BIM models. BIMcollab Cloud simplifies issue management, and offers a structured way of storing, sharing and solving issue including reliable history tracking in any BIM development process.
BIMcollab ZOOM: the world's most intuitive model validation and clash detection tool. BIMcollab ZOOM brings IFC model viewing and validating fully integrated into the issue management workflow. ZOOM is the perfect tool to discuss issues in design review meetings, helps to analyze data to find design flaws and to verify solutions. Navigation is fast, intuitive and smooth, even with large models. Now with clash detection!
BCF Managers: connect with your favorite BIM tools & more. BIMcollab Cloud is connected to the most popular BIM tools like Revit, ARCHICAD, Navisworks, Solibri and Tekla Structures through our integrated BCF Managers. They can also be used to import and export BCF files. Create and share issues with team members whether they are working with the same or different BIM tools. Start in model checking-, clash detection- or validation software and lookup issues, review solutions, follow mark-ups and provide feedback to solve in BIM modeling tools.
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Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Alec Pestov is presenting vGIS - BIM, GIS and Reality Capture in Augmented Reality.
Alec Pestov is the CEO and the Founder of vGIS.
vGIS is a leading extended reality (XR) visualization platform that transforms traditional BIM, GIS, Reality Capture, and other types of spatial data into visually stunning yet practical augmented reality overlays.
vGIS aggregates data from a variety of sources, including Autodesk models, Bentley BIM designs, and Esri ArcGIS, to display it in a unified, real-time augmented reality and mixed-reality (MR) view with centimeter-level positioning accuracy.
vGIS is the most advanced #AugmentedReality #AR #visualization platform for #GIS, #CAD and other #spatially-referenced data.
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Try Plannerly for FREE - The BIM Management Platform
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
The BlenderBIM Add-on v0.0.210131 has been released with 110 (yes!) new features and fixes. It's our built environment, help support the BlenderBIM Add-on: 100% free and open source software that lets you author and document BIM data fully to ISO standards. It's built by the AEC community, for the AEC community. In this video Dion is talking about the most important updates.
About Dion Moult :
"Dion Moult is an architect and software developer passionate about Open Source. He is also the main developer of BlenderBIM Add-on https://blenderbim.org/ an add-on for beautiful, detailed, and data-rich OpenBIM with Blender. "
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OSArch Community
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Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
IFC Specification Database
Which IFC Class Should I Use
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Øystein Ulvestad is presenting Death of drawings - Using BIM-models to improve built quality.
Øystein is working as a BIM-developer for Sweco in Oslo, Norway where he is responsible for research, development and quality of civil BIM models. In October, the last project Øystein has worked on, has been awarded at Tekla Global BIM Awards as the best BIM project and the best infrastructure project: https://www.tekla.com/bim-awards/randselva-bridge
Sweco is Europe's leading architecture and engineering consultancy company, established in 13 countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK and Poland). Sweco carries out projects in 70 countries annually throughout the world.
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Friday Feb 05, 2021
Friday Feb 05, 2021
Khalid David - Construction Financials, Done Right
Khalid David, the founder and CEO of TracFlo is presenting Developing Machine learning tools with project cost data.
Do you have control over your change orders or are they a real liability for you right now? TracFlo help subcontractors get a better grasp of their financial performance by helping the track and manage changing cost on a job site.
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