buildingSMART International Forum in Brisbane

The week starting 12 November, 2007, saw the Australasian Chapter hosting the latest buildingSMART International Forum in Brisbane, and it was a huge success!  Delegates from Asia, Europe and North America joined us for five days of meetings, and it was considered one of the best meetings, with substantial undertakings that will see buidlingSMART dramatically increase funding, to tackle implementation and promotion programs, as well as launching a new initiative to promote development and uptake of IFC-enabled environmental tools.

We had two industry days, both very well attended, and very successful.  The half-day Government session, called "Enabling National Productivity in the Construction Sector", provided insights, details, and lessons from a number of initiatives directly relevant to the role of Australian Governments in industry performance, including eDA, Australia's new electronic Development Application program.

The Industry Day, called "Working Smarter in the Construction Sector", included presentations from International and Australasian members about the uptake of IFC-enabled tools, and the implications for a range of industry players.  There were presentations from Australian users of IFC-enabled tools about the work they're doing locally, as well as speakers from major property and asset managers in Europe and the US describing how focusing on users needs and outcomes helps them refine their operations and deliverables, and how IFC-enabled tools are a critical part of their planning.

Video presentations of three interviews from the forum are linked below.

BIM to support strategic management of assets

David Hammond, Senior program Manager, Office of Civil Engineering, US Coast Guard, Washington DC

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The HITOS multi-disciplinary pilot: objectives and outcomes

Ole-Kristian Kvarsvik, Senior Engineer, Statsbygg, Office of public Construction and property, Oslo, Norway

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Government and Industry programs to support model based working

Arto Kiviniemi, Research Professor, ICT for Built Environment, VTT, Technical research Centre of Finland

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Introduction to buildingSMART

The use of BIM is gaining significant momentum. BuildingSMART is integrated project working and value-based life cycle management using Building Information Modelling and IFCs. In the last two years IAI has turned its attention to the broader issues of achieving beneficial change in industry, using Building Information Models (BIMs) and IFCs as the trigger to smarter ways of working.

This is the origin of the branding of IAI as BuildingSMART. Smarter ways of working will directly affect the processes and skill sets used in industry and indirectly other issues such as contracts, payment systems, insurance, education and training. Under the BuildingSMART banner, IAI is seeking alliances with other similarly motivated organisations to support processes which deliver faster, better, less expensive and more predictable results than can be achieved with traditional methods. BuildingSMART = BIM + IFC

buildingSMART Sponsors

We are pleased to acknowledge the support of our sponsors.  They are key to the success of buildingSMART, and provide a very large part of our operating revenue.

Gold Sponsors

          

                    

buildingSMART joins ASBEC

buildingSMART was asked to join the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council, an advocacy and policy group.  This is a key part of buildingSMART's strategy to develop stronger, more collaborative relationships with key industry groups.  IFC-enabled tools can help provide significant improvements in building environmental outcomes, and we are working with ASBEC to help promote improvement and use of these tools.