News Archive


Weekly Link: Autodesk and Bentley Announce Interoperability Agreement. | posted July 11, 2008

Weekly Link: Edges Newsletter for Summer 2008. | posted July 04, 2008

Presentations from the Building Connections 4th Congress are now available online. | posted June 26, 2008

Weekly Link: IFD Library continues to Grow. | posted June 20, 2008

A recent STAND-INN newsletter features case interoperability studies related to innovation and the use of standards in the construction and ongoing maintenance of buildings. | posted June 20, 2008

Applications Available for AISC Faculty Fellowships. The Faculty Fellowship is a four-year, $30,000-per-year award for promising faculty members. Applications are due September 2. | posted June 20, 2008

Weekly Link: AECOO Testbed Launched by OGS, buildingSMART. | posted June 13, 2008

Weekly Link: ISO Announces Release of New Standard for Sustainability in Building Construction. | posted June 06, 2008

Weekly Link: Public Review of Open Automated Demand Response Communication Standards. | posted May 26, 2008

Weekly Link: ICC Tutorials on SMARTcodes. | posted May 09, 2008

Weekly Link: CEC Report on Green Building in North America. | posted April 18, 2008

Weekly Link: Vela Systems and Tekla Announce Software for Supply Chain Management. | posted April 11, 2008

Weekly Link: National Green Building Standard Nearing Completion. | posted April 04, 2008

Weekly Link: BimStorm in Journal of Building Information Modeling. | posted March 28, 2008

Weekly Link: TAHI Interoperability Framework Initiative Launched. | posted March 14, 2008

Weekly Link: COBIE Implementation Meeting Report. | posted March 07, 2008

Weekly Link: OGC Approves Sensor Web Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard. | posted February 29, 2008

Weekly Link: BIMForum Meeting in Miami. | posted February 22, 2008

Green Building Studio has announced Autodesk's intention to acquire its assets. The announcement states that the gbXML schema, an integral part of the Green Building Studio products, will remain an open standard. | posted February 22, 2008

Weekly Link: Articles on BIM Management. | posted February 18, 2008

Changes have been made to the AIA Standard Form Design And Construction Agreements - an explanantion of notable changes (and non-changes) are listed in this blog post. | posted February 09, 2008

Weekly Link: Articles on Liability and BIM. | posted February 09, 2008

ASHRAE Publishes an updated version of energy efficiency standard 90.1, 'Energy Standard for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings'. | posted February 01, 2008

Weekly Link: AISC/SSPC Draft Certification Standard Available for Public Review and Comment. | posted February 01, 2008

Weekly Link: E-Leasing with Adobe Intelligent Documents. | posted January 23, 2008

Weekly Link: Case Study on Archiving of Digital Design Files. | posted January 18, 2008

Weekly Link: Articles on CAD Data Translation. | posted January 11, 2008

Weekly Link: McGraw Hill Construction Publishes Interoperability Report. | posted January 03, 2008

Weekly Link: PISCES Publishes Lease Delivery Standard. | posted December 18, 2007

Weekly Link: Interoperability Case Studies from Harvard's Berkman Center. | posted December 12, 2007

The AIA Archiblog has posted an interoperability survey, the results of which are due to be posted soon. If you haven't already, please take a couple of minutes to answer the survey questions. | posted November 28, 2007

Weekly Link: The Future of Professional Practice Conference. | posted November 28, 2007

The call for entries for the 2008 BIM Awards has been posted on the AIA Technology in Practice web site. The recipients of the 2007 BIM Awards can be seen here. | posted November 14, 2007

Weekly Link: Gehry Technologies Digital Project: Case Study. | posted November 14, 2007

Weekly Link: Nemetschek Allplan BIM 2008. | posted November 08, 2007

A recent article on AECbytes described the results from a survey of 651 AEC professionals, who were asked to rank the relative importance of several different criteria related to the adoption of BIM software. | posted October 29, 2007

Weekly Link: Zigbee Alliance Announces New Standard. | posted October 28, 2007

Weekly Link: Cadalyst article 'Standards Evolve Slowly'. | posted October 16, 2007

Weekly Link: AECbytes Survey 'Top Criteria for BIM Solutions'. | posted October 11, 2007

Weekly Link: Report on the ISO 15926 Semantic Web. | posted October 03, 2007

Weekly Link: General Buildings Information Handover Guide. | posted September 24, 2007

Weekly Link: Bentley’s Integrated Structural Model. | posted September 20, 2007

Weekly Link: Discussion: Autodesk's Acquisition of Navisworks. | posted September 10, 2007

Weekly Link: More BIM blogs. | posted August 27, 2007

Weekly Link: GSA paves way for IT-based buildings. | posted August 20, 2007

Weekly Link: Two articles touch on standards in Intelligent Buildings. | posted August 13, 2007

Weekly Link: STAND-INN Project Reports and Newsletter. | posted August 07, 2007

Over two months after Autodesk announced its acquisition of Navisworks, the process of acquiring the company is complete. For comment on the acquisition see cadalyst and bim(x). | posted August 27, 2007

Presentations are now online for Building Connections 2006 - The 3rd Congress on Digital Collaboration | posted February 22, 2007

First Annual buildingSMART Awards Announced at Washington D.C. Ceremony | posted January 14, 2006

Speakers announced for CABA's Connected@Home 2006 Conference | posted August 14, 2006

Second Workshop for the 1st Step of IFC2x3-Certification held in Munich May 4-5 (IAI) | posted July 28, 2006

Addenda Supplements to ASHRAE Code-Intended Standards available | posted July 28, 2006

Nominations Sought For 2007 T.R. Higgins Award (AISC) | posted July 20, 2006

10 Addenda Proposed to ASHRAE Energy Standard | posted June 10, 2006

Presentations are now online for Building Connections 2005 - The 2nd Congress on Digital Collaboration | posted March 20, 2006

TAP Holds Second Annual BIM Awards Competition | posted February 10, 2006

Article: Is there a person missing from your building project team – the Interoperability Consultant? | posted January 20, 2006

AIA TAP Presents First Annual BIM Awards| posted June 8, 2005