I just read an interesting news report on how Intel has used BIM (building information modeling) for laying out the machinery in its new plant in Oregon (http://www.sparpointgroup.com/News/Vol09No06-Intel-using-BIM-for-tool-install-at-new-Oregon-facility/) BIM represents a game-changing advance in technology, albeit one that has been slow to catch on. It is refreshing to see a world technology leader adopting it….
Listen in on my interview with one of the world’s top experts on BIM (short for both “Building Information Management” and “Building Information Modelling”), Bob Weygant. Bob has authored books on the subject and will be coming out with a new one in April 2011. He has created over FIFTEEN THOUSAND models using BIM for…
President Obama landed in Mumbai a few hours ago. His visit here will be the longest he has ever made to another country, and he is being treated as an honored guest in the true Indian tradition. I expected all interactions between him and his Indian counterparts to consist of the exchange of pleasantries and…
Outsourcing is a hot (and often sore) topic nowadays. Engineers and architects in North America are badly enough off as it is, so it is not surprising that there is often an anguished cry when architectural drafting or engineering drafting is outsourced. But life is not all milk and honey for Indian CAD service providers,…
Our latest guest on TMG’s Engineering and Architecture Video Show was the architect who designed the soon-to-be-opened, spectacular spa at the Trump Soho Hotel in New York City. Anthony J DiGuiseppe, member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and a charter member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) talks in depth about…
