Accelerate Your In-House BIM Transition!

Will your next construction project require BIM? Best practices for Building Information Modeling (BIM) starts with understanding what BIM is, where the industry is at this stage of the game and how BIM can be applied in your organization.

The BIM Roadmap 2009 webinar series picked-up where "BIM Implementation Roadmap 2008" left off — bringing you emerging trends from experienced users and leading experts in the Building Information Modeling field. This exclusive series aided those just getting started . . . and those who were ready to further their BIM implementations.

BIM Roadmap 2009 was conveniently held in a webinar forum of xxx attendees – making, the CDs a valuable personal and corporate training tool with strategies you can apply to your organization.

Location: Anywhere. Office conference room or worksite!

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To help you understand the role BIM can play in your company's future, we have teamed up with Kurt Maldovan, Jacobs Global Buildings, and John Tobin, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering PC, to give you a close look at developing standard BIM practices; introducing: BIM Roadmap 2009: Session 1 - From Cutting Edge to Standard Practice: Obtaining Tangible Value From Your BIM Investment Today.

This 90-minute interactive webinar will provide a foundation for establishing practical standards that will work for your organization. It will also provide a basic understanding of how best to apply BIM, setting procedures, utilizing metrics and anticipating the roles that different people will play. Whether you're the Design Consultant, the Contractor or the Owner, this session will help you establish your BIM standards while smoothing the path for the impending trend towards Integrated Project Delivery.

• The no-nonsense case to make BIM standard practice
• Setting up processes and procedures: metrics and learning curves
• Matching staff capabilities to BIM software tools
• Identifying the minimum BIM level for every project
• Facilitating early collaboration with the contractors and subs

From just a handful of players to dozens of companies offering "BIM" applications, where does one start? What do these various applications do? Which one or more applications will benefit you the most? How do you go about researching, selecting and implementing the right tools for your role in the BIM process and what on-staff and outside resources will you need? To help you answer these questions and more, Jerry Laiserin of the LaiserinLetter™ and BIM4Builders™ Conference will relate his analysis and evaluation of many of today's relevant BIM applications.

• What is BIM anyway?
  • BIM = process; BIMware™ automates the process
    
  • From "Legacy Design and Construction" (LDC) to
    Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)
• Classifying BIM software applications
• Choosing and implementing BIM software applications
  
  • What role(s) do you play?
    
  • Which tool(s) do you need?
    
  • How do you connect your tools with the rest of the team?
• Future trends, challenges and opportunities

Handoff, 30-yard pass or fumble? How is the data in the model made available to other members of the project team? Is the data transferred, loaned, exported or shared? What about keeping changes in sync? Who is responsible for maintaining the data and for maintaining the model? What happens when there are multiple models? These are the questions and challenges facing BIM users everyday, and this session will help you understand the mechanics of multiple parties that must share and work with the various models.

• Why transfer models?
• Issues with data?
  
  • Protection of proprietary data
    
  • Sifting through extraneous data
    
  • Temporary construction data
• Developing new models for specific purposes
• Owner deliverables - multiple models or single consolidated model
• Future trends and opportunitie

There's no substitute for experience! This trio of major construction firms has dozens of BIM projects under their belts. They understand the direct benefits of BIM, but more importantly, can relate the value that BIM brings to project delivery, teamwork and collaboration. You'll learn why BIM has become a way of life for these companies, how they manage and use the technology, their cost experiences and the effect on the final product. You'll learn why BIM is increasingly used and funded by contractors even when BIM is not a requirement of the owner, including:

• Using BIM to reduce coordination time among subcontractors
• Using BIM to reduce or eliminate field discrepancies
• Using BIM to reduce cost and schedule risks
• Virtual modeling — using BIM to avoid costly field workarounds
• Using BIM for quantity takeoff and cost estimating
• Specifying more prefab materials using BIM
• Case Studies: Three major commercial/government contractors discuss actual project experience with BIM -- including the pitfalls

Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) encompasses many different concepts; almost all have significant benefits for the parties involved. Which one makes the most sense for your situation? What are the relationships between BIM and IPD? This unique session looks at the different forms of IPD, various contract documents that may play a role, risk issues and practical advice to help you become involved in IPD in an informed and productive manner. Learn more about the risk concerns of BIM and IPD, including:

• What are the fundamental drivers in an IPD agreement?
• How do these differ from the traditional construction agreements?
• How do a project's deep goals affect the IPD agreement?
• What process should be followed when negotiating an IPD agreement?
• What are the key issues in the negotiation?

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Session 1: From Cutting Edge to Standard Practice $246

Session 2: Current Trends in BIM Software $246

Session 3: Multiple Models, Multiple Players: The Model Exchange Challenge $246

Session 4: Contractors on the Front Lines $246

Session 5: Integrated Project Delivery: Contracts, Scope, Risk and Reward $246.

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