How BIM Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions and Create a Sustainable Future
How to reduce Carbon footprints by using BIM-based modern construction technologies In our ever-changing world, technologies are making a big impact on the construction industry. Construction is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, mainly due to the...
BIM and Digital Prefabrication: How to Leverage the Benefits of Both
In the previous blog- BIM and Digital Prefabrication: Benefits and Challenges we explored and looked at the topic BIM and Digital Prefabrication in depth. Here we are with the concluding part of our previous blog addressing How to leverage the benefits of digital...
BIM and Digital Prefabrication: Benefits and Challenges
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a powerful tool in the construction industry, as it streamlines and simplifies the ways projects are managed. BIM is a revolutionary technology that has been revolutionizing the construction industry. It is used in many areas...
Building Information Modeling: Benefits and Advancements for the AEC Industry
What is BIM???? By now, we guess all are aware of what BIM is…are you sure?? Let us look into it once more - BIM is an acronym for Building Information Modeling. In simple words, it means building a model asset with entire useful information. Misinterpreted many times...
BIM Trends Shaping the Construction Industry in 2022 and Beyond
Although the range and scope of construction technology extend far into the future, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of the few solutions that are genuinely at the forefront of the industry's digitization since its inception. A transformative resource, BIM...
Integration of Augmented Reality with BIM
Enabling effective planning between the architects, engineers, and contractors (AEC) to decrease disputes and improve communication efficiency, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has proven to be beneficial in improving project documentation throughout the project...
Are BIM & VDC the same….?
Technology and digital transformation are disrupting the AECO industry with innovations, bringing about constructive changes in their conventional workflows. Along with such rapid developments arise misinterpretations about the concepts and their effective...
Evolution of CAD in the Engineering sector
CAD technology has brought incredible changes in the AEC sector. Computer-aided designs are simple to understand proving of great help to designers, engineers, and contractors for expediting the completion of projects successfully. Every company irrespective of its...
BIM for Façade Design
BIM has sparked several great changes in the AEC industry, and facade design is no exception to this. BIM has triggered several technological changes in the whole industrial chain of façade design, fabrication, and installation. In the architecture of a building, the...
Are BIM and Digital Twin the same..??
Confused between BIM and Digital Twin..? Do these terms seem alike to you..? Don’t worry! This article intends to address such questions and help you understand BIM and Digital Twin Technology in a better way.First, let us understand what is Building Information...
Scan-to-BIM powered by AI and ML
Scan-to-BIM is the term often used these days in the BIM industry. There’s no doubt that Scan-to-BIM has made its way through and has become one of the most demanded and used technologies by the AEC members. Scan-to-BIM has emphatically influenced the AEC industry by...
Here’s how BIM will revolutionize the Water Treatment Industry
“The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water”- growing demands of the global population and increasing problems caused by urban water pollution point out that, the world needs to focus on building pristine and sustainable water treatment plants that...
Copying schedule between different projects in Revit
At times, it might be necessary to use the same schedule in one or more projects. Creating an entire schedule from scratch will be impractical, especially if there are conditional formatting or formulas involved.
The Rise of The Prefab Industry – A Sneak Peek
The global construction industry in the year 2017 was estimated to be worth a staggering $17140 billion, and it was expected to reach $24334.9 billion in the year 2021 with an impressive compound annual growth rate (CAGR). This tremendous growth in the construction...
How to use “Reference Model Scale” in Tekla structures?
Users can more quickly scale reference models and 2D pdfs dynamically within the model. It is especially useful for concrete contractors who insert 2D pdfs and wish to scale them using the dimensions already shown on the pdf.
Biomimicry, Nature’s answer to the betterment of our poorly designed world!
We live in an era where engineers are in constant search for sustainable solutions to tackle the issues that currently plague the world. And there is no place worthier of searching for solutions other than the 3.5-million-year old laboratory, nature! The only way for...
BIM for Smart Buildings
In the present era where more emphasis has been given to sustainability and sustainable buildings, shifting to constructing smart buildings was the paradigm shift the AEC industry underwent. The integration of modern technology & IoT (Internet of Things) was the...
Excluding Group Members in REVIT
Groups are collections of model elements. Groups are treated as a single unit and given a name. Names of all your groups show on the project browser ,
The art of BIM subletting- From a GC’s Perspective
In the 21st century where subletting and outsourcing has become common, the winds of change have hit the AEC industry too. In a recent study on BIM subletting, it was seen that 45% of the general contractors in the US reported outsourcing BIM to some degree to...
Convert Revit Group into Links
A linked Revitfile is an externally referenced Revit project loaded into the main model. As the link maintains a connection to the linked model, any changes made directly in the linked model can be reloaded into the host Revit model.
