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Tag Archives: FIM
BIM and FM who needs to educate whom?
Another resounding success for the CKE ThinkBIM series today that explored Building Information Management and Facilities Management and raised acutely pertinent issues and questions for future debate. There certainly was much learning and sharing, from Deborah Rowland’s keynote, (Cabinet Office … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, facilities management
Tagged 1:5:200, BIM, CKE, construction, design, facilities management, feedbackfeedforward, FIM, FM, FMSystems, Integration, soft landings, thinkBIM
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be2camp north shapes up
Interested in the Built Environment? Not sure about Web 2.0, social media, blogs, Twitter and the like? Then Be2camp North is the event for you. Following on from the world’s first Web 2.0 construction event, in London in October 2008, … Continue reading
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, women in construction
Tagged Ada Lovelace, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, geocaching, jodie miners, Pam Broviak, Paul Wilkinson, second life, social media, Twitter, web2.0, wikitecture
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Facilities Information Modeling
The recent white paper BIM and Facilities Management from Autodesk, makes the case to extend Building IM to Facilities IM(or at least to include) Building information modeling (BIM) is changing the way buildings are designed and constructed-but is it changing how they’re operated … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative working, comment, construction, design, facilities management
Tagged autodesk, be2camp, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, FM
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Will BIM move to FIM? (Webinar 16/4/10)
The concept of a Facilties Information Model as a more encompassing, arching umbrella model to a Building Information Model has been discussed over the last few years, but with little (public) evidence of use in practice. I guess in some … Continue reading →