BIM Tag

04 Jun The Tyranny of Measurement: On Invisible Cities and Unquantifiable Value

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Yes, the fault might be our current project on PowerBI, but this month I've been reasoning a lot around our Illuministic obsession over measurements and how that affects our approach to business intelligence in the era of Big Data. On top of this, I've been...

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28 May Interoperability Is a Cultural Problem, Not a Technical One

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I know, I know. I don't speak about interoperability much, and ya'll know what I think of IFC, but a recent discussion prompted me to submit to you a more articulated argument around the issue, because I do not think, in fact, that IFC is...

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27 May Notes on the Tuscany tour

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It was very fulfilling to bounce around in Florence and hook up with people in my industry. Everyone seems to have a different angle on what's not working in the way we're approaching the digitisation of the construction sector — from norms to interoperability to...

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23 May KPIs and Gaming the Metrics

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Earlier this week I wrote about KPIs and how we're using them wrong, l but I fear I left something out, which is how KPIs are used in education. Nowhere is the distortion of goals by poorly chosen KPIs more visible than in the classroom....

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21 May The KPI Trap

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How the Wrong Metrics Derail Digital Thinking (and What I Tell My Students About It) One of my students once proudly told me their Revit family—a window—had 42 parameters. They had worked hard on it, tuning and nesting constraints, adding types, and connecting dimensions to carefully labeled...

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07 May The Architecture of Memory: Eco, Calvino, Borges, and the Digital Archive

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Last week, I pursued the general hype and went to our local theatre to see a contemporary Opera inspired by Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose, one of my favourite books of all time. And though it was mostly inspired by the 1986 movie, it...

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30 Apr That was never the Destination: 3 Rules for Good BIM

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A few days ago, I encountered a situation in which a group of very wise and very big companies promised a client to deliver practically everything you can do with a digital model (and frankly, beyond). The problem? In their original statement, the client was...

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04 Dec Industry Foundation Classes: risorse per capirci di più (o quantomeno per capirci qualcosa)

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Che io non sia una fan del formato Ifc è cosa nota e risaputa ma purtroppo, per parafrasare una nota massima quantomai attuale riguardante la democrazia, per quanto possa fare schifo è ancora il formato migliore che abbiamo (principalmente perché è l’unico). E siccome avere...

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07 Nov AEC Data Model API: Set Up and First Experiments

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Yesterday, we took a look at a brief introduction to the new AEC Data Model API, which targets data within files on your Autodesk Construction Cloud instead of drawing all of them and sifting through them later (which isn't half bad when a system is...

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05 Nov AEC Data Model API: an introduction

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Autodesk announced lots of news during last October's Autodesk University and, though some of them weren't really new, we do have some interesting development, especially on the cloud services. You can find the full list here. Since I am bound to forget to look into it...

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