When is a “Standard” not a standard? There are currently around 150 Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standards that exist across the United States right now. The definition of a standard: stan·dard (noun) : something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example -or- something set up and established by authority as [...]
Happy New Year’s to everyone. I hope that the holiday season was relaxing and fun for you. Wow, first blog post of the year. 2012 more than most years seemed to pass by in a blur. I don’t know if that is a product of me getting older, or being busier, but it I blinked [...]
In the process of tutoring college students about Building Information Modeling (BIM), I am reminded how rapidly the design and construction education is changing. Thinking back just 6 and a half years ago when I graduated from college, I entered into the workforce with very little real CAD knowledge and no idea what BIM is. [...]
Every day I find it more and more important to develop my skills as a storyteller. Storytelling touches many aspects of my day to day life at SHP. It affects how I present, how I perform business development activities, and even how I think about the future. So what makes a good storyteller? I have [...]
Over the past decade, our industry has undergone a fairly dramatic shift in the way we design our projects. The most recent available data shows that the majority of architecture firms have now embraced BIM software to some degree as the primary tool for aiding in the creation of construction documents, but those construction documents [...]
At SHP, our conversion to a building information modeling (BIM) process occurred in 2005. We completely converted all of our architects and engineers to the Revit platform in about ten months that year. The timetable we set for ourselves was unheard of and we knew it. However, by committing to the goal of getting 100% [...]
I was watching golf last weekend on tv and saw a new FedEx commercial. In the animated commercial, the narrator states, “The inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest…” Scenes of stereotypical earth friendly symbols are shown throughout. It ends with the tag line “sustainable solutions…FedEx –solutions that matter.” It’s inspiring [...]
One my favorite quotes from the late Steve Jobs was from an Apple keynote a couple years ago. He said that “We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both, to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but [...]
Yesterday I discussed the first two benefits to the new, improved Revit that ties disciplines together. Today I’ll talk about the third, which is a new direction. The final feature upgrade provides an interesting debate about blurring the lines of responsibility and centers around the new ability to create linked parts models. In the 2012 [...]
In late April, Autodesk released the 2013 versions of the their software. This included major releases for Revit, Navisworks, 3D Max, and AutoCAD. SHP has been Alpha and Beta testing the 2013 software since last December and we have found this latest release to be very exciting. This software update brings many changes to how [...]
