This posting is composed of two parts.
First, I'd like to thank the aCADemy. I've been having a great time promoting, educating and evangalizing Revit, BIM, Sustainable Design and Collaboration for the last 2 years and specifically, since May of 2006 when I first started my original Revit website www.bimwit.com. I've gone a little overboard adding website names linking to the main site www.revit3d.com. Names like abcddd.com (it's a easy as ABC and 3D), bimbeau.com, cad3po.com and r3d2.com (star wars references), ddduuuu.com (3d for you), gotrevit.com, JoinTheRevitlution.com, RevitBorg.com (you will be assimilated), Revitect.com (no more archaictects), revitrevit.com (sounds like a frog, but you can leapfrog over your competition), runrevitrun.com (thanks Forrest Gump, Revit Plans, Revit Sections, Revit Interference Detection, Revit Gumbo, Fried Revit, Revit Renderings) and revituniverse.com because soon, everyone will be using Revit, even on the Moon. Other names just for fun: www.revitgeek.com (for you Ara), revit247.com (because once you get hooked on Revit 24/7 you just can't stop.
So, I'd like to thank the AIA's Building Connections website for noticing my little blog 2 weeks ago with a posting on their website in the same paragraph as HOK (who we've just completed training for in Florida). I finally feel like I've made it when the AIA recognizes my hard work to help spread the word about current technology, Revit, BIM and sustainable design.
So, here's the post and some information about the AIA's Building Connections website. As a side note, please take into consideration that the AIA is promoting the interoperability of digital data for the AEC industry and for all of you out there who would rather send a PDF or fax instead of a DWG or DWF. It's time that we all work together and share the data to really embrace partnership, technology and quality architecture and construction and focus on 3D coordination, automated construction document creation and not focus on layers and lineweights.
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More BIM blogs http://www.building-connections.info/news/weekly_link.html
posted August 27, 2007
The field of blogs dedicated to BIM-related topics continues to grow, with new appearances every week. Here are a few of the notable blogs that have emerged since the last weekly link on this topic. Two blogs maintained by HOK address BIM topics: HOK CAD Solutions touches on practical CAD topics with a strong emphasis on Revit, and HOK Green BIM covers a wider range of topics including software, standards, and events. Revit Zone is a UK-based site with good, current tutorials and an active blog; and Revit3D has an actively maintained collection of links and frequent news postings.
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And now, if you've never seen or heard of it, here's AIA's Building Connections website.
http://www.building-connections.info/ and http://www.aia.org/tap_building_connections
The International Clearinghouse for Interoperability Standards and Activities in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Real Estate Industries
The AIA Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community created
www.building-connections.info/ to serve as a clearinghouse for information about design and construction industry initiatives to promote interoperability and data exchange standards.
Many groups within the building industry are working on this common issue: how can we agree on standards for data exchange so that real collaboration can occur throughout our fragmented industry? These groups are competing within a small community. No one gets sufficient funding or attention to be effective. And none has the funding to market the message to the professional user communities so that the value of interoperability becomes widely understood.
Interoperability: The ability of software and hardware from multiple vendors to communicate seamlessly across diverse systems, platforms, applications, and networks using open, public standards for data exchange
Now that the potential of intelligent building modeling is recognized as a means to integrate design, construction, and operations, we must have open, nonproprietary standards to enable software interoperability across platforms, disciplines, and applications. We believe interoperability is critical to process improvement throughout the building industry. Until now, efforts to develop standards have themselves been fragmented and uncoordinated, and the value of interoperability has not been effectively "sold" to stakeholders.
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