Category Archives: BIM
The Right Tool for the Right Layer: How Tetra Tech Rooney Is Rethinking Reality Capture
A Design Technology Manager at one of the nation’s largest engineering and technical services firms explains why a mixed-capture strategy — terrestrial scanner, SLAM, drone, and phone — beats any single technology approach. Tetra Tech is one of the largest engineering and technical services firms in the United States, a publicly traded company with operations...
Open for Business
A newly approved international standard may just be the key to help speed up the construction sector’s digital transformation–starting by making BIM data format accessible.
BIM, a Basilica, and a Balloon
An award-winning digital twin project is interesting on many levels, and not just because it features one of the world’s most famous landmarks. Shown above: The AI-driven camera-based solution Italferr developed to capture the upper dome and galleries. Source: Italferr Davide Porzio, CDE manager, BIM coordinator, Italferr S.P.A. speaks enthusiastically about building a digital twin...
Building Information Modeling
How cloud integration can unleash its full potential In the building and construction industry, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has revolutionized the way professionals conceive, construct, and manage our built environment. Since its introduction in the 1970s, BIM has evolved from rudimentary 2D digital representations to becoming the backbone of modern construction projects. Today, its significance...
BIM: Into the Future
Looking Forward The concept of building information modeling has existed since the 1970s, although we certainly didn’t recognize it then. That’s when the first software tools developed for modeling buildings started to emerge. Those early applications and the computers needed to run them were expensive, so adoption wasn’t widespread. BIM gradually evolved, though still far...
Sounds Good
Using powerful simulation algorithms, this young and award-winning acoustics software startup from Iceland is making sound visible. No wonder it’s already creating a buzz in the BIM community. For Finnur Pind and Jesper Pedersen, success started inside a dark and windowless basement. Backed by a research grant in 2020 and a free room down in...