
buildingSMART Canada (bSC), a council of the Institute for BIM in Canada (IBC), has released a new practice manual to serve the design, construction and operations sectors of the Canadian built environment in the adoption of lifecycle Open Building Information Modeling (BIM).The Canadian Practice...
RedCage recently released a mini documentary early last week on the Bergeron Centre to promote the use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) for Planning, Design and Construction industry. The Bergeron Centre is a prime example of the use of BIM to construct world-class buildings in Canada [watc...
David Rekker, senior account manager at Bluebeam Inc., a software firm for design and construction professionals will be presenting a talk at the next Toronto Regional Session & Technology Exhibition to be held on September 28-29 at the Beanfield Centre, Toronto.Presentation OutlineAs firms of va...
IntroductionIn 1998, while Visio was preparing to be acquired by Microsoft, there was a debate at Visio about a small CAD toolkit that Visio had recently purchased. Microsoft did not want the toolkit. Rather than selling or retiring it, Visio helped to create a non-profit technical consortium cal...
George Brown College’s Angelo DelZotto School of Construction Management is proposing to offer a Graduate Certificate program that will train students to deploy Asset Information systems in the management of new and existing facilities and infrastructure.In this regard, George Brown College is in...
I often hear Revit, and by extension BIM, accused of being slower than CAD, particularly by those who are new to it. Those that have been using CAD software and methodology for a very long time, in particular, have some pretty strong opinions on the matter.“Revit is 4x slower than CAD” is one of ...