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Tag Archives: FM
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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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
Posted in built environment, comment, design, facilities management, web2.0
Tagged BIM, BIMstorms, facilities management, FIM, FM, Webinar
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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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BIM: More than just an information model
Last month I was delighted to present and explore ‘BIM, Building Information Modelling’ with Yorkshire CIBSE members. I wanted to reinforce a few BIM issues, in particular that BIM is just not about buildings – but facilities BIM is about collaborating and … Continue reading →