Brian Frels / RTKL's Blog (6)

I've been desperately waiting for the presentations to be available for download so that I can start summarizing the event for an upcoming lecture. Hopefully some of you are doing the same. You can download some of the presentations HERE. Continue

Calvin Kam invited all the bloggers to come up and say a few words. I have to say its a lot easier to hide behind the computer and blog. Here were my closing thoughts. "I’ve been working on coming up with a motivating metaphor for my experiences. Unfortunately the one I’ve come up with involves visualizing all of you in bathing suits. Let me explain: I look out in the audience and I see a few types of people. Many of you have taken a big giant leap into the BIM pool years ago and are now reapi… Continue

We are sitting in the Breakfast Plenary Session: BIM Storm Eco. The presenters have titled the presentation BIMstorm: BIM for the people. The discussion is essentially about Open Standards. Its about people across the world collaborating in real-time. The more and faster you share information with others the more relevant you are. During the session the audience has been logging on to http://BIMstorm.com/mobile and creating BIM models that are being populated live in the Boston area. Someone… Continue

While snacking on some light breakfast fare I reunited with past employers from my internship days in Dallas, and bonded with my tablemates by discussing the trials of transitioning to BIM. The topics of conversation were the same as they have been for the past several years: training and personnel, hardware specs, implementation percentages, etc. However, we agreed the long pole in the tent (as my clients often recite) was the change in workflow. The conversation had a positive overtone that ca… Continue

I’m hoping to learn more about OPS at one of Kimon Onuma’s sessions. Tuesday 3:30 True BIM: Interoperability Case Studies and Industry Initiatives Wednesday 8:30 Breakfast Plenary Session: BIM Storm Eco ONUMA Planning System During early schematics we often create complex relational diagrams. I’ve been looking for a software that will help us create dynamic diagrams that link graphical information to a database that can be imp… Continue

As I was gearing up to head to Boston I received an email from a lady in Dallas who happened upon my Archinect Schoolblog from my terminal year at Texas Tech. It’s interesting to see how one’s web persona can be shaped by a search engine. If you haven’t ever Googled your name…you should. You can bet that if someone is looking for information about you that’s the first place they’ll look. It’s all about the big “I” in Infor… Continue