BIM, the Built Environment and Stuff

Freezing the Federal Footprint #gsa #bim

Jim Foster — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:05:21 +0000

The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management meets this morning to discuss ‘Freezing the Federal Footprint’. This comes from an Office of Management and Budget memorandum that stated “ all Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act Executive Branch departments and agencies (agencies) shall not increase the total square footage of their domestic office and warehouse inventory compared to the [...]

Architectural, Engineering, and Related services: Top 5 Fastest Growing Industry For Small Business

Jim Foster — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:51:56 +0000

A recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine, has Architectural Engineering and related services in the Top 5 Growth Industries for Small Business with growth pegged at 11.4%, #1 was Residential Building Construction. Now this has to be year to year growth but that factor was not mentioned in the article. It also is not so surprising considering the complete ass kicking these industries [...]

Gehry Gets Into The Box : GTeam and BOX AEC Collaboration : #BIM #AEC

Jim Foster — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:08:26 +0000

LOS ALTOS, CA–(Marketwire – Feb 14, 2013) - Sales in this (AEC) segment more than doubled over the course of 2012. Box today announced a new technology partner and preferred Box OneCloud apps to better serve customers in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) services. The new integration with Gehry Technologies‘ GTeam cloud-based BIM collaboration service, together with the [...]

Trimble Acquires Penmap : Customized Software for The Surveying Market

Jim Foster — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:37:12 +0000

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 15, 2013—Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) announced today that it has acquired a suite of software solutions from Penmap.com Ltd. of Bradford, United Kingdom. Penmap.com’s solutions include both office and field data collection software specifically designed for the cadastral and surveying markets. The comprehensive software suite enables Trimble to further address local application requirements and [...]

86% of Building Construction Expenditures Relate to Renovation of Existing Buildings

Jim Foster — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:36:42 +0000

“As ASHRAE President Gordon V.R. Holness noted in the ASHRAE Journal, “Approximately 86% of building construction expenditures relate to renovation of existing buildings, not to new construction.” Holness estimated that “over the next 30 years about 150 billion sf of existing buildings (roughly half of the entire building stock in the United States) will need to be [...]

We Now Have The Time and Inclination To Do Things Right : BIM Adoption Reaches 71% In North America

Jim Foster — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:13:41 +0000

“We now have the time and inclination to do things right,” this phrase was uttered by a client of ours, a construction manager, after the 2008 economic implosion of the real estate sector. The time portion was meant ‘unfortunately’ as few of us were as busy as we wanted, but what he was referring to was his [...]

Reality Capture, for Real. Autodesk Completes Capture of Allpoint Systems : #BIM

Jim Foster — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:40:39 +0000

At the end of this month Autodesk announced it completed the purchase of Allpoint Systems, this adds to the ‘Reality Capture’ stable now including Alice Labs. Although much like the borg, you google Alice Labs and not much comes up as the technology and seemingly most of the talent has been absorbed into the mothership. [...]

5 Firms Converge on New Orleans to Document The Royal Sonesta

Jim Foster — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:09:43 +0000

”Jim your a go….” 2:40 PM, New Years Eve 2012. Text from our client; Mark at Looney & Associates Our work window was January 3rd through January 9 2013. Travel arrangements and team needed to be assembled for flights in two days. The only thread holding this together was PKNail Pro. Team members included individuals from Langan Engineering, Turis, TrueScan3d, [...]

Adopting New Technologies and Business Practices : When’s a good time?

Jim Foster — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:08:42 +0000

Is there ever a good time to adopt a new technology or business practice? No. Yes. Today. First, ask yourself these questions, “Will it make me or our organization more profitable? Will it lead to new business opportunities?” One broad way to measure profitability is ROI in the investment. How much will it cost to [...]

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody…Who Can’t Get Behind That

Jim Foster — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:02:08 +0000

Like I tell my kids everyday, we pick people up we don’t put them down. Enjoy your family and friends, have an extra piece of pie, pet your dog, play touch football. Just take a minute.