Inspiring possibilities

The April issue of Building Design and Construction magazine has a pretty interesting article entitled,

BIM + IPD: Three Success Stories, by Jeff Yoders. He writes on some recent projects done using the Integrated Project Delivery approach that uses the Building Information Modeling– leveraging the synched database model inside
Autodesk‘s REVIT and REVIT MEP software–

BIM rendering of live performance hall

This work looks great but these are not just pretty renderings. These are only a “view” of a complete design in a database.

another bim rendering of live performance hall

The industry has really started to take off on this tool. Even the MEP engineers on getting on board. This is an example of a project in the state of the art, designed and built from a database in a software such as Revit.

Clash detection

Now we need to pay for insulating all those uninsulated wall cavities in our nations housing stock that were built before 1980. Residential buildings still account for a large percentage of our energy consumption. We still need to go back and improve tens of millions of buildings that were built before 1980.