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ecoScorecard Advances BIM Capabilities With Google SketchUp™ Integration

Phoenix, November 11, 2009 – ecoScorecard, the technology platform that helps building product specifiers evaluate environmental attributes of products, today revealed the new ecoScorecard plug-in that works with Google SketchUp and provides a critical link between popular BIM (Building Information Modeling) tools and important environmental rating systems such as LEED. The announcement was made today [...]
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GSA Awards Ten Nationwide BIM Services IDIQ Contracts

The General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Services (PBS), has officially awarded ten Nationwide Building Information Modeling (BIM) Services IDIQ Contracts to the following firms: Beck Technology Applied Software Technology DPR Construction, Inc. Ghafari Associates, LLC Hallam Associates, Inc. KlingStubbins, Inc. HNTB Corporation ONUMA, Inc. View by View, Inc. Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc. Congratulations to all of these firms! It will be interesting to see how much [...]
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Building Information Modeling: Content, Collaboration and Construction

On September 22, 2009, the AIA Houston BIM Association hosted their Fall seminar titled Building Information Modeling: Content, Collaboration and Construction. Presented by Jeff Chittenden, AIA (WHR Architects) and Jim Jacobi, P.E. (Walter P. Moore), this seminar was a discussion on model content, (where to find it, how to make it, and what should it [...]
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McGraw-Hill Construction Presents National Conference on Business Benefits of Building Information Modeling, Sep. 21-22, in San Francisco

NEW YORK, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — The rapid emergence of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) technologies is revolutionizing the way architecture, engineering and construction firms work together to communicate, solve problems and build better projects. To bring design and construction professionals closer to BIM’s benefits, McGraw-Hill Construction will host a national conference [...]
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UPDATE: GSA Nationwide BIM/Laser Scanning Services Contract Awards

The word on the street is that the General Services Administration (GSA)has notified firms selected for Nationwide BIM and Laser Scanning Services contracts this morning. The selected firms will begin contract negotiations this week. No details have been given as to which firms were selected just yet, but follow us on Twitter or check back here [...]
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Texas A&M Receives Grant to Improve Data Exchange and Standards

(Media-Newswire.com) – A team of architecture professors at Texas A&M are aiming to improve buildings’ design and energy efficiency by providing standards for data exchange among disparate building design software systems through research from a national engineering society’s 15-month, $175,000 grant. Studies have shown that problems related to exchanging information among building information modeling software used [...]
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Virtual meets Reality – Real-World Visualization of Building Information Models

Mixed reality and visualization Competence Mixed Reality denotes generally different visualisation means between Reality and Virtuality, enabled by 3D computer graphics. On one hand, Virtual Reality (VR) means completely 3D modelled representation of real world, while Augmented Reality (AR) stands for superimposing virtual objects in the user’s view of the real world. The work by VTT’s Virtual Reality research [...]
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Texas Adopts Building Information Modeling (BIM) capability for State Design and Construction Projects

Austin – The Texas Facilities Commission (TFC), the agency within the State of Texas that oversees the state’s real estate development as owners and operators of state facilities, today announces its adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for state design and construction projects. For over a year, the Facilities Design and Construction (FDC) division within [...]
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