Do BIM today not tomorrow!!!

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late.’ – MLK Jr

A great reminder about ‘doing’ rather than ‘thinking of doing.’  Go BIM today!! 

Kevin Spacey with some seriously wise thinking

Some wise words from Kevin Spacey that will really motivate you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stA68drYSk

Speed of change!

Mario Andretti said famously: “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough”.

Seems quite apt!

CyArk - Preserving our heritage in 3D

Check out the great work that CyArk are doing to preserve our most endangered sites using terrestrial LiDAR (aka 3D Laser Scanning, aka High Definition Survey) technologies to provide 3D survey data.

http://archive.cyark.org/about

Tocci Quoted in Morrell's Report

Pleased to see John Tocci Snr quoted in Paul Morrell's Innovation & Growth Team report :

“When we have the means of modeling a building in three dimensions digitally, it is perverse to attempt to do so for the first time for real, under site conditions. As John Tocci, an American contractor who makes invariable use of BIM (whether or not the design comes to him in that form) puts it, “Every good building deserves to get built twice”.

John Tocci (Snr) is for me blazing the VDC trail, keep going John!!!

Good to see BIM being mentioned positively several times in the report, looks like any Government manadate will be the lightest of touches (public projects £50M+??).  Still it is up to us in the private sector to demonstrate the value proposition for VDC (and i'm sure we will)

A.U. 2010

Confession time, I have just lost my A.U. virginity (Las Vegas 2010)!

What a fantastic couple of days, it is great to see the thinking going "Beyond BIM" T.M.

Not only was the conversation erudite: BIM to FIM (well done to Brad Hardin), IPD - becoming the norm but the tecnologies supporting our journey have really matured especially the emersive technologies.