BIMstorm

[Brian Frels / RTKL]

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 in the audience inserted a spire with 350 floors ...man I wish i would have thought of that.

I haven’t seen the building I created pop up on Google Earth yet.

I think I'll look up this software when I get back to work.

[lesley hayes]

"The purpose of this exercise is not to determine the final design, but "creating train wrecks ahead of time."
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[Andrew Fisher]

What about, "If everything seems to be going fine, you're not moving fast enough."


There's another statement I want to investigate after this conference: 'even Sketch Up has an IFC-in'

[lesley hayes]

My favorite comment of the session:

"If you wait till the technology's perfect then you will just be too late. It's like saying-I'm not using the internet because it's not done yet."

I think this speaks volumes to some of the attitudes I have experienced in the field today.