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We have a number of previous webinars that you can watch back in our on-demand section. We cover a wide range of topics ranging from industry news or information about IFC or OpenBIM to product specific webinars that explain more about our Flex platform and it’s many uses. Click below and you’ll be able to sign up to access our on-demand webinars.
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Thursday 19th October 2pm (BST)
Using Flex Flow to Automate BIM data checks, this webinar will cover some of the basics around creating rules to automate the checking of your BIM specs, uploading this detail to Flex Flow and reading, collaborating and reporting on the results.
Our latest blog posts
We're up for two Building Innovation Awards
xbim has been selected for the Best Use of Information Management Using BIM and Best Asset Management Innovation category at this year's 2022 Building Innovation Awards.
Both awards relate to projects with partners on our Flex platform. The BIM award is relates to the development of Benchmark Estimating Systems new
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Funded by the CIH (Construction Innovation Hub), the i-ReC (Intelligent regulatory compliance) project was a collaborative effort between, BRE Product validation, Northumbria University, and Heriot-Watt University. The UK is heavily investing in MMC (Modern Methods of Construction) and offsite construction techniques. Investment has increased due to the escalating prominence of the benefits of this form
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xbim are sponsoring best technology partner award
At xbim, we understand the importance of emerging digital technologies and the opportunities they create in the construction industry. As the creators of Toolkit, our open-source, Open Standards BIM library we are invested in collaboration and innovation. Our passion for the advancement of the construction industry through emerging tech
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xbim, a leading Newcastle based tech business, has secured £500,000 from the North East Innovation Fund. A fund supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and managed by Northstar Ventures.
Founded in 2016, the origins of xbim stretch back more than a decade. Director, Steve Lockley, began the development of the company’s leading product xbim
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Xbim are delighted to announce that we’re working with Northumbria University, Heriot Watt and BIM Academy on an exciting new research and design project.
The project, backed by Government, founding partners Building Research Establishment (BRE), Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) is part of the ‘Transforming Construction Challenge’ initiative.
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AN INTRODUCTION TO XBIM AND OUR FLEX PRODUCT
If you're interested in developing BIM functionality for a new or existing software we can assist with the help of our Flex platform. Flex is an enterprise level, cloud based OpenBIM platform, designed to assist commercial clients develop their BIM requirements at speed in a scalable and cost
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In the last few months, we had a chance to use the xbim viewer on some of our customers’ incredibly large and complex projects. While the models looked great when stationary, moving about the model was not as fast as we’d like it. So we’ve done some work to handle these mega models better using
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NetZeroFlow is a technology platform and carbon data set that drives the design of new buildings and the refurbishment and re-purposing of existing buildings, to achieve a net zero carbon outcome.
The Landscape
COVID-19 has changed the way buildings will be designed and operated in the future. Design teams need to work increasingly remotely, where they once
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The challenges of doing embodied carbon calculations Last week marked the end of a 9-month long ‘NetZeroFlow’ project part funded by Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund, in which xbim and Circular Ecology joined forces to develop a solution enabling architects and engineers to measure and reduce embodied carbon as their designs evolve. Driving carbon down to ‘net zero’, and improving life cycle assessment, are being addressed by many, but this project has had the combined 60 years’ experience of the xbim co-founders behind it. xbim’s expertise in liberating and improving BIM data means that they are uniquely placed to challenge the existing status quo; carbon life-cycle assessments are hard, often
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