We sometimes need to be reminded that we design buildings to be experienced. We use the latest software to visually show our clients what things will look like. We model how well a building will …
FM Systems : Webinar Version 8
Really Cool Timing Larry Lee from Haworth Inc. just forwarded me an invitation to a webinar for FM Systems. It was pretty funny that the email came right after my post about the new features …
FM Systems takes a huge step in the right direction
One small step for owners, one giant leap…. On August 10th, FM Systems introduced a huge breakthrough in linking BIM and Facilities Management. Version 8.0 of their software was released and it featured two new …
Wrapping up at US CENTCOM
Just got back to the hotel room with enough time to bang out a blog post. We had a great two day trip to MacDill Air Force base. Dick, Vern, and I got a chance …
When Personas Don’t Work.
While working on the US Central Command BIM Standards project, we continue to research the idea of personas. We have originally begun most of our BIM Standards discussion with the defining of personas so that we …
SHP and US Central Command (US CENTCOM)
SHP Leading design has been selected to create the BIM Standards and Guidelines for US Central Command. This creation of BIM Standards also includes the definition and creation of personas for the use in linking …
Personas and Managing Facilities
I had an interesting conversation with Chuck Mies from Autodesk the other day about our effort to link building information modeling (BIM) and facilities management (FM). The conversation centered around the idea of creating personas …
Codebook Training
What is CodeBook CodeBook is a bi-directional database software that works perfectly with Revit. It allows you to store a lot of data that is attached to Revit, outside of Revit. This is especially cool …