Industrial plants are dynamic environments where layouts constantly change due to innovation, technology wear-and-tear, as well as changes in regulatory measures. Traditionally, facilities managers had to maintain as-built or as-maintained plans, product information, and maintenance schedules separately. With the arrival of…
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BIM for Facilities Management
Tagged with: As-Built, as-maintained, BIM, emergence management, facilities management, facility maintenance, scan-to-bim
Augmented Reality to Showcase Your BIM
Like all marketing professionals in the AEC industry, I’m always looking for innovative ways to showcase our models. Recently, I experimented with using augmented reality apps for displaying our models and the results blew me away. In the past year,…
What is not BIM
BIM is an acronym for Building Information Model. BIM is not a program. You do not get BIM just because you have a file that can be opened by a “BIM” program like Revit. Information is critical to the Building Information…
Glorious Gadgets
One of the most inspiring lectures I attended at SPAR this year was Jim Balding’s and John Russo’s 30 minute lecture titled “Glorious Gadgets” in which the two presented a series of videos and asked a simple question – tool…
Real time engine explained
If you want to see your computer model in a virtual environment, you have to use a real time engine. The real time engine allows you to move fluidly through the computer model and look in any direction. Most engines…
3D Laser Scanning Basics
Three Dimensional laser scanning is very fast, accurate, and useful. It is not necessarily a new technology, but has only recently become a practical economic choice. There are two types of scanning we will focus on – site scanning and…
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