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Why It’s Time for Contractors to Adopt Collaborative BIM

Viewpoint Construction Technology

Building Information Modeling (BIM) isn’t a new concept in construction. Many contractors have been using this 3D design method for years now to improve collaboration, often with impressive results for efficiency and ROI. The 2017 report found the industry hasn’t made much progress in this regard.

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2015 BIM Experience Survey - Preliminary Results

Construction Dive

Building information modeling (BIM) is a controversial topic. BIM champions have been extolling its virtues of design efficiency, construction cost and time savings, and maintenance economies for owners. Yet BIM has not become as widely used as expected in the United States. Read more.'

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Is a BIM Mandate Coming to the US?

Viewpoint Construction Technology

As we discussed in a recent blog post , the JBKnowledge 2017 Construction Technology report found that building information modeling (BIM) adoption in the United States has been fairly slow, with only 27 percent of construction companies having a BIM department. BIM Adoption Abroad.

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Asite acquires 3D Repo

Extranet Evolution

Independent L ondon, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology developer Asite has announced ( 5 April 2023 ) the acquisition of 3D Repo , also London-based, and a pioneer in cloud-based BIM collaboration software. 3D Repo has continued to push ‘Open BIM’ research boundaries.

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Reality capture, BIM and AI – Imerso, XYZ Reality and PointFuse

Extranet Evolution

Nemetschek has led a financing round for Norway’s Imerso, whose platform combines reality capture, AI and BIM – areas also targeted by UK players XYZ Reality and PointFuse. Imerso’s cloud-based platform automatically analyses the captured 3D scan data against the plan in BIM.

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Previewing Digital Construction Week (DCW) in London

Extranet Evolution

Among the DCW 2021 exhibitors… 3DRepo 3DRepo have been busy lately, running their own British Information Modelling event in London earlier this month, then appearing at AEC Magazine ‘s NXT BLD conference, and now at DCW.

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Evercam raises €8m to revolutionise reality capture market

Extranet Evolution

As previously covered in EE (read April 2020 post: Evercam : site imagery, AI and BIM ), Dublin, Ireland-based company Evercam provides cameras for construction sites to provide regular feeds of images that can also be used to create time-lapse and project management video sequences.