COBie is the acronym given to the international standard for building data exchange - its full title is Construction Operations Building Information Exchange. The COBie specification captures industry best practice and is most commonly used in the product data handover process between the construction firm and the facility management team. However, it is important to ...
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When it comes to BIM, many construction companies feel that it is an approach that is more commonly used on government projects or larger businesses in the public sector. While this may have been true in the past, as larger companies tended to adopt BIM first, there is a risk that smaller companies may miss ...
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Attaining a certain level of fire safety is a statutory requirement in building design - however, it is usually left up to the designer to decide what fire safety services and design features they use to achieve this. Standard fire safety guidance tends to indicate that there are concessions on other fire precautions when automatic ...
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Big data is big news at the moment as it refers to the huge quantities of information that has been stored in the past and continues to be acquired today. Data can be collected from people, computers, smart devices, machines - basically any device or agent that generates data. The vast availability of such data ...
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An automatic fire sprinkler is used to control or extinguish fires locally through the discharging of water in the location. Detection of the fire is usually done through the use of heat-sensitive elements, constructed from glass bulbs containing oil-based liquids or soldered links. There is also a thermal element which holds a plug which prevents ...
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Despite the fact that as a BIM Company we often talk about the construction industry being slow to adopt digital ways of working, the building industry is actually primed for automation. Already we are seeing more automatic manufacturing of building parts with the increase in the number of prefabricated buildings being made as well as ...
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Construction industry employees make up around 7% of the global labour force, with more than 11.4 trillion dollars being spent on construction-related activities last year. However, despite this depth of resource and cash flow, the growth of the construction industry as a whole has remained flat. Why is that? As a BIM Company, we can ...
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At The CAD Room, we occasionally post BIM Manager Jobs, along with other jobs in the BIM sector - but what is a BIM Manager and what competencies and skills will you need to succeed in this role? What is a BIM Manager? BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the process which generates and manages the ...
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Design and construction of a building used to be based around a fragmented set of tools and processes, but the introduction of BIM has made the whole process more coherent. As a BIM Company, we are well aware of the multitude of benefits that BIM can bring to construction projects, not just in the planning ...
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Nobody designs buildings with the expectation that they are going to go up in flames, but as recent events have shown, a failure to include sufficient fire protection services can have tragic consequences. Defence mechanisms, such as fire sprinklers, and exit routes are essential aspects to include in the design of a building, in order ...
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