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posted 12/10/07 by Dave Simeone My how time flies

OK, I’ll admit – I’ve been away from this blog for a bit. The bright side of this is that it gives me a chance to look at some of the cool things that have happened in the past few (ok, a bit more than a few) months.

Some things that I’m particularly excited about…

The term BIM is being used in the civil industry
Civil 3D adoption has skyrocketed worldwide
We’ve acquired an incredible Storm water design solution
I finished off the inside of my garage (sort of, anyway)
Civil 3D downloads from the student community site have increased dramatically (15K+ in Oct!)
We had more than 1700 Autodesk University attendees in the Civil/Survey track

I want to discuss a number of these changes over the next couple of weeks… Today, however, I’ll talk about BIM in the Civil market. One of the things that we’ve been discussing internally (and to a lesser degree externally) is how we talk about dynamic modeling in the civil industry. The term BIM is well established in the world of building development, but less so with us civil folks. It’s that dang “building” word. Frankly, I was skeptical that we in the civil space would be willing to latch onto the term, but the more people we talk to, the more people are open to the idea. Rather than the B in BIM meaning “a building”, people are thinking of it as “building something like a road or site”.
I got my issue of CE News the other day and they’ve got a nice article that explains what BIM is all about and how the approach is moving quickly into the Civil space. It also confirms that a pretty good chunk of the folks in our industry are acceptant of the term. It’s a quick read…

Civil Engineering News - BIM and civil engineering

Key takeaway… I get to meet with all types of folks. The concepts that are discussed in BIM – single centralized model that persists through the life of a project, integrated project delivery, parallel work process, etc – is something that comes up in EVERY executive briefing I sit in. Your management team is actively thinking about how to move into this new way of working. My suggestion is that you learn as much as you can as quickly as you can and become an active participant in driving this change.

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