The problem with building information modeling (BIM) has always been a lack of reality. On the computer screen, even a just-hatched BIM model can look plenty real, thanks to productivity-enhancing ...

Hikvision, a multiple award-winning innovator of video surveillance products and solutions, now presents a new line of BIM security cameras that can be integrated seamlessly with specifiers’ and ...

Whether you are an owner, design professional, design consultant, construction manager, general contractor (GC), or subcontractor it is almost inevitable that you will encounter the use of Building ...

As AEC firms dive deeper into BIM/VDC modeling and simulation workflows, the number of software tools put into play on a given project keeps growing exponentially. Firms recognize the value of ...

GOING OUT ON A BIM While consulting engineers are leading the BIM drive, the technology has had mixed success for the mining industry in South Africa so far While consulting engineers are leading the ...

GRAPHISOFT recently announced the release of the next upgrade to its BIM design software; ArchiCAD 16. This version of ArchiCAD provides solutions that respond to some of the most dynamically ...

According to the Construction Financial Management Association, the average pre-tax net profit for general contractors is between 1.4 and 2.4 percent and for ...

Hochiki Europe has become the first company of its kind to provide Building Information Modelling (BIM) components to the NBS National BIM Library. The company, which was founded in Japan in 1918, has ...

Earlier this month, the Bahrain Society of Engineers (BSE) organised a seminar aimed at improving the knowledge of building information modelling (BIM) in the Kingdom. Jointly hosted by Mercury MENA, ...