News

• buildingSMART alliance Announces Participation with McGraw-Hill Construction in Industry-wide Survey of Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  (June 11, 2009)
• IFC2x4 Beta1 Available
  (June 9, 2009)
• APPA Facilities Manager Features Articles of Interest
  (May 27, 2009)
• Journal of Building Information Modeling (JBIM) Spring 2009 Issue
  (May 12, 2009)
• The BIM, Issue 2 (PDF 9 MB)
  (April 29, 2009)—buildingSMART Korea issues the second version of their BIM journal. Many of the articles are in Korean and English.
• Sutter Medical Center Castro Valley: Case Study of an IPD Project
  (AECbytes / March 6, 2009)
• Engineering News Record: Virtual Design and Construction
  (March 2, 2009)
• Organizations to Look at BIM for Cost Engineering, Estimating Projects
  (February 26, 2009)
• Doer's Profile: Terry Beaubois, AIA
  (February 20, 2009)
• Square Feet: Frank Gehry's Software Keeps Buildings on Budget
  (February 10, 2009)
• The Institute's Letter to Congress (PDF 41 KB)
  (February 4, 2009)—The Institute coordinates organizations in letter to Congress for buildings industry support of Economic Stimulus.
• The Buzz — Have you heard about COBIE?: NMFT Conference Blog by Bob Wisniewski
  (January 15, 2009)
• CONSTRUCTECH: Interoperability on Display (PDF 96 KB)
  (December 15, 2008)
• The Institute's Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama (PDF 168 KB)
  (December 11, 2008)
• McGraw-Hill Construction BIM Report Shows Growing Demand for Digital Models, Training
  (December 2, 2008)
• Daily Commercial News: AGC Leads agcXML Initiative (PDF 24 KB)
  (November 26, 2008)
• AGC Announces Release of agcXML (PDF 36 KB)
  (November 17, 2008)
• buildingSMART alliance™ Announces First Board of Direction
  (October 9, 2008)
• Alliance Reaches 200 Members
  (September 15, 2008)
• The BIM, Issue 1 (PDF 5.3 MB)
  (July 18, 2008)—buildingSMART Korea launched the first issue of The BIM this week.
• From Blueprint to Database
  (The Economist / June 5, 2008)—This article is a good example of how our message is beginning to transcend our industry technical market.
• Building Information Models in New York City - A New Group is Formed
  (May 23, 2008)
• Interoperability Workshop Brings Together Technologists from Europe and North America
  (May 13, 2008)
• OGC® and buildingSMART alliance™ Release RFQ/CFP for AECOO Testbed
  (May 2, 2008)
• VA to Adopt BIM Starting in FY 2009
  (April 15, 2008)
• Fiatech CETI Awards
  (April 10, 2008)
• The Summer of BIM: A counterculture design festival breaks down the usual barriers.
  (Cadalyst / April 1, 2008)
• An International Agreement Supporting Building Information Modeling
  (March 1, 2008)
• OGC® and buildingSMART™ alliance Tackle Interoperability Across the Building Life Cycle
  (February 11, 2008)
• National BIM Standard Version 1 - Part 1 Released
  (February 7, 2008)
• buildingSMART National Conference Presentations Available Online
  (February 1, 2008)
• New National BIM Standard Released
  (December 27, 2007)
• NIBS and NBIMS Release First Issue of the Journal of Building Information Modeling
• AIA and AIA California Council Partner to Introduce Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide
• McGraw Hill announces it's Interoperability in the Construction Industry Smart Market Report (PDF 1.4 MB)
• buildingSMART alliance formed
  (February 28, 2007)
• AGC to Sponsor Development of Universal Document Exchange Standard for Construction Industry (PDF 68 KB)
  (June 22, 2006)