Autodesk recently sponsored an exciting event - New York Construction Contractors and Owners Forum. The forum was a unique opportunity focusing on discussing the current state of the building handover process and discovering pathways to improvement through innovative new approaches. Keynote speaker - Bill Bausmith, Associated Director of Construction Management... Read more →

Autodesk University 2015 innovations main stage witnessed some incredible stories about innovation from across the globe. One of the obvious highlights is JE DUNN Construction's innovative cloud-hosted visualization and pricing interface that is helping them shave significant time and cost from the projects. And revealing its potential to unsettle the siloed, incremental way in which buildings are designed and built. John Jacobs, Chief Information Officer, presented how JE Dunn has transformed the preconstruction process leveraging their LENS pricing software, Dunn Dashboard and Autodesk BIM 360 for a seamless, transparent and connected ecosystem. Read more →

Autodesk recently hosted an event on 'BIM for Owners' in NYC at September, 17th. The objective of the one-day workshop was to provide an opportunity for project management professionals within owner’s organizations to discuss and exchange what they understand about BIM, what are the benefits of using BIM for owners,... Read more →

There is a buzz in the construction industry about a new document management solution called Project Alexandria. So what is it and how does it change the construction workflows? Project Alexandria is a purpose-built document management system for construction. Stay tuned to the projectalexandria.io site where we'll be revealing more about it in the coming weeks. Read more →

BIM 360 Glue and REST APIs are becoming very popular among our partners and customers who wants to interact with the project data in BIM 360 cloud. The Glue Viewer allows users to pass some of the parameters to an embeddable viewer to visualize live BIM data through 3rd party applications and browsers. A lesser known fact is BIM 360 Glue's Javascript APIs, that allows users to interact with the Model View for rich bi-directional workflows. Read more →

How to extend BIM’s values from design and construction phase to facility operation and maintenance (O&M) phase? This is a question that many facility owners with pioneering spirits have been asking. All the valuable information captured in the design and construction process does not have to die after the handover – it can connect with existing Facilities Management (FM) applications and serve as digitized data repository to be used for O&M purposes. Read more →

I switched to an Apple Macbook Pro three years back and has been using it ever since at work and home. Running BIM 360 Glue or Navisworks in a Windows virtual machine using Parallels has become such a breeze that I barely have to pause. It took me a while... Read more →

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the event called "CITA Smart Collaboration Challenge" in Dublin, Ireland. Ralph Montague of ArcDox kindly sent us a list of links to the recordings from the event on youtube. In case you are interested in, here is the list: Keynote: Chuck Eastman Keynote:... Read more →

If you are planning a BIM pilot project or looking to review your current workflows, and practices, here are two great resources for you. Happy reading! 1. BIM Deployment Workbook Get the Autodesk® BIM Pilot Deployment Workbook. It’s a step-by-step guide to launching a BIM pilot for construction professionals. 2.... Read more →

In my last post I briefly introduced the basics of Dynamo and visual programming, and shared some video resources. In this post I will conclude the discussion by sharing some my thoughts about the practical uses of Dynamo Read more →