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When Speed Counts: EPCM Delivery for Industrial and Manufacturing Projects

Civil + Structural Engineer

Owners building complex industrial projects face a wide range of risks in delivering their projects as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible. This is a major departure from traditional design-bid-build delivery where the team only sees lump sum costs with various contingencies and, of course, large margins.

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BIM for FM – What is COBie – A Section of Roadmap for Life-cycle Management of the Built Environment

Building Information Management

(Source: A report for the Government Construction Client Group Building Information Modelling (BIM) Working Party Strategy Paper March 2011). The aim is to structure and rationalise the information for re-purposing and use downstream. Classified by building type. What is the occupancy level of my estate/per building?

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Adopting Integrated Commissioning for Greater Project Success

In Eight

Most likely, it was because we started with the end in mind, the commissioning , and we built from that end to the beginning as a team. But what if we started as a team, defined our completion criteria and sequencing, developed our processes, constructed our databases, system boundaries and metrics together with an integrated project team?

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How Owners Can Create a Winning Combination for Successful Project Delivery

Autodesk Construction Cloud

While data requirements can be defined without adopting any of these industry standards or specifications, doing so creates a common language and understanding within an organisation, across different systems and applications, through the supply chain, and cross-industry teams. It is also a key element in building trust in the data.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVAC) – A Important Standard? – HVAC information exchange – HVACie

Building Information Management

Open information exchange of Heating, Ventilating and Cooling systems (HVACie), released by the Engineer Research and Development Center for public review. HVACie extends the existing Industry Foundation Class Coordination View including equipment and system information streamlining construction shop drawing and fabrication.

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BIM Glossary Terms and Definitions – NBIMS-US – 2013

Building Information Management

Building Information Modeling Model Management. BIM is a term which represents three separate but linked functions: Building Information Modeling: Is a BUSINESS PROCESS for generating and leveraging building data to design, construct and operate the building during its lifecycle. Attribute. Weight=7300, etc.