New 'Special Interest' Group called BIM
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Dear SketchUcation Management Board,
Is it possible to add another 'Special Interest' Group called BIM.
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I would like to see it as a sub-forum that everyone can browse. I think it's a question of how special it is. I think anyone interested in SU for architecture would be informed by the BIM progress, whether they felt a need to participate or not.
"BIM" is one of those things you can't use the forum native search for.
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I like this idea, especially considering there are some BIM like plugins or tools utilizing Sketchup now available or being developed. I certainly would read it and try to learn from it.
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I still think BIM is the most poorly defined acronym ever to be released on the construction industry but as it seems to be the buzzword of the decade and no doubt Trimble SU will be going there it would make sense to have a BIM sub-forum at least while it defines itself.
I would also be looking to read and learn from it.
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Just one example of how far flung the concept of BIM can be, besides direct involvement with design and construction: It is theoretically possible to catalogue everything throughout the Building's Life Cycle. Facility managers could maintain a database of all moveable contents in a structure, plan the life cycles of these items, determine the date of replacement, tag them to monitor how far they move from their original point of deployment, however that could happen. They could even monitor how many rolls of toilet tissue are being consumed and maybe even figure out who's got a problem.
Now, doesn't this make you drool at the prospect of such Power and Control? -
@arcad-uk said:
I still think BIM is the most poorly defined acronym ever to be released on the construction industry but as it seems to be the buzzword of the decade and no doubt Trimble SU will be going there it would make sense to have a BIM sub-forum at least while it defines itself.
I would also be looking to read and learn from it.
Definitely agree. people are just slapping the term 'BIM' on anything in the hope that people will buy their product.
A BIM sub-forum would be a good idea. I personally would love if sketchup could be used to model info, generate quantities etc.
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I was being a bit facetious in my comment above, but I would like to mention a book I am reading on BIM: BIG BIM little bim by Finith Jernigan, 4SitePress, Salisbury, Maryland, USA. (4sitesystems.com)
And he does briefly mention the good side and the bad side of "control". -
Interesting but...do you always need the BIG BIM?
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A simple answer is no. The "little bim" is the applications and tools such as Revit and others, while the big Bim in that author's terms is the integration of and management of the information and the people beyond the model and its components. I'm pretty sure you already knew this.
I am leaning toward the concept. How accessible it will be for me depends on how my office deploys the tools.
I even see some prospects for Archaeology in this. And by extension, History. After all, it is database.
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