The BIM Awards, continued, and the new version of Revit Structure

Last month, I published Part 1 of the article on the third annual BIM Awards hosted by the AIA TAP (Technology in Architectural Practice) Knowledge Community that were announced earlier this summer. This month's issue of the "Building the Future" series, 2007 Third Annual BIM Awards, Part 2, discusses the remaining projects that won TAP BIM Award citations this year, including the Royal London Hospital project in London, which won in the category of Support for Human Use and Innovative Program Requirements Using BIM, and the GSA’s BIM Pilot Project Successes and National BIM Program, which won the Jury's Choice citation. It also captures some of the jury's thoughts and deliberations on the entries that were submitted.

The Tips and Tricks contributions from our experts this month includes a look at the BIM Experience Kit, an innovative interactive tutorial for ArchiCAD that was recently released by Graphisoft, and some tips on how to set up an Apple computer to run both the Windows and Mac OS operating systems on it simultaneously. Hope you will find them useful.

Last but not the least, we will take an indepth look at the latest release of Autodesk's BIM application for structural engineering, Revit Structure 2008. While it has many improvements in common with Revit Architecture 2008, which was reviewed a few months ago, it also includes many more enhancements that are specific to structural design, analysis, and detailing including including the ability to model curved beams, a dedicated truss element, slab modification tools, the ability to cut holes in beams and columns and add stiffeners, and rebar improvements for concrete construction

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Thank you!

Lachmi Khemlani

Editorials > September 2007