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aecinsight simulation comes not from Digital Project or Vectorworks Architect, but from Green Building Studio’s gbXML, IES’s Virtual Environment, or Square One Research’s Ecotect. Accuracy in owner requirements and code compliance comes not from Revit or ArchiCAD, but from Solibri Model Checker, Trelligence Affinity, or from CodeBook International. Similarly, although model-authoring tools provide core geometric and data representations of buildings, the integration of designs with specifications comes from companies such as Architectural Data Systems and e-Specs. BIM-ready models of real-world building products come via FormFonts, Tectonic Partners, and CADalytic Media’s SpecifiCAD. Model-authoring vendors such as Autodesk, Bentley, and Gehry Technologies offer platform products that allow for coordination across architectural, structural, and MEP trades by keeping the respective discipline models in the same software family. Other vendors rely on an interoperability strategy for coordination. Builders’ Information Modeling An illustration of growing diversity in BIM automation is the split between designers and constructors. Architects and engineers are somewhat concerned with coordination, but constructors rank constructability and schedule simulation among their primary areas of interest in BIM process improvement. Many BIM-automation projects rely on Jetstream from Navisworks for trade coordination across multiple models. Autodesk recently acquired Navisworks, so the industry is waiting for other independent players to emerge (perhaps Solibri or Enterprixe). Schedule simulation (the integration of 3D geometry plus time, sometimes called 4D CAD) is another BIM automation tool of more interest to builders than designers. Common Point Project4D was an early leader in this technology, followed more recently by Vico Software Constructor, Innovaya Simulation, and a Primavera Systems plug-in for Gehry’s Figure 1. Tools such as Gehry Technologies’ Digital Project. Digital Project help architects and engineers better (left) analyze and (right) visualize their As Autodesk building designs before construction starts. digests its Nav- (Copyrighted images courtesy of Swire isworks acquisi- Properties) tion, I expect that Revit will sprout new 4D capabilities as well. Integration of estimating and procurement with models/ drawings also is critical to contractors. Automation tools for these functions include Beck Technology’s DProfiler with RSMeans, Innovaya Visual Estimating linked with Sage Timberline Estimating, Vico Software Estimator and 5D Presenter (figure 2, p. 48), and 1st Pricing’s eponymous product. The Ownership Society Even paper-based representations of drawings, specs, and schedules can attain accuracy, consistency, integration, and coordination, but that result only occurs at the end of the construction phase after all the addenda, requests for information (RFIs), value engineering, allowances, alternates, substitutions, change orders, sketches, contingencies, as-builts, In this article 1st Pricing Enterprixe Nemetschek North America www.1stpricing.com Architectural Data Systems www.enterprixe.com e-Specs www.nemetschek.net Primavera Systems www.architecturaldatasystems.com Autodesk www.e-specs.com FormFonts www.primavera.com Sage Software www.autodesk.com Beck Technology www.formfonts.com Gehry Technologies www.sagetimberlineoffice.com Solibri www.beck-technology.com Bentley Systems www.gehrytechnologies.com Graphisoft www.solibri.com Square One Research www.bentley.com CADalytic Media www.graphisoft.com Green Building Studio www.squ1.com Tectonic Partners www.cadalytic.com CodeBook International www.greenbuildingstudio.com IES www.tectonicnetwork.com Trelligence www.codebookinternational.com Common Point www.iesve.com Innovaya www.trelligence.com Vico Software www.commonpointinc.com www.innovaya.com www.vicosoftware.com www.cadalyst.com | cadalyst | November 2007 47 http://www.1stpricing.com http://www.enterprixe.com http://www.nemetschek.net http://www.architecturaldatasystems.com http://www.e-specs.com http://www.primavera.com http://www.autodesk.com http://www.formfonts.com http://www.sagetimberlineoffice.com http://www.beck-technology.com http://www.gehrytechnologies.com http://www.solibri.com http://www.bentley.com http://www.graphisoft.com http://www.squ1.com http://www.cadalytic.com http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com http://www.tectonicnetwork.com http://www.codebookinternational.com http://www.iesve.com http://www.trelligence.com http://www.commonpointinc.com http://www.innovaya.com http://www.vicosoftware.com http://www.cadalyst.com

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