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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.

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The xBIM Xplorer is a free, open-source IFC viewer that comes in two versions: stand-alone and web version. Written in C#, the xBIM Xplorer was created to demonstrate the capabilities of The xBIM Toolkit.  It allows users to: Open and view IFC files. Navigate through a model to see detailed information of the building such as thickness
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DCW As we continue to expand our team and client list we thought it would be a good opportunity to take a stand at this years Digital Construction Week! After such a long time hidden behind a screen on Zoom and Teams meetings we're really looking forward to getting back out there and meeting people! If you're
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THE ROAD TO DIGITAL TAKE-OFF. BENCHMARKS PARTNERSHIP APPROACH TO BIM INTEGRATION BENCHMARK offers globally renowned, comprehensive, cost estimating solutions based on Estimating First Principles. Working within the construction vertical they’ve built an increasingly strong presence in the civil engineering sector with large-scale asphalt and earthworks companies being some of their key accounts. Benchmark offers users the
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4BIM is a £1.2 million project jointly funded by the Technology Strategy Board and its commercial partners. The goal of the project is to provide capabilities that will help the construction sector to meet the UK Government’s target for all public sector construction projects to be utilising collaborative BIM by 2016 (Level 2 on the
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CREATING A FUTURE FOCUSED WHOLE LIFE CYCLE ASSET MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FEXILLON have been in the business of strategic project management within the construction sector for more than 20 years. Predominately working with owner/operators, Fexillon help their clients to manage the transfer of digital data through all stages of construction project, ensuring that relevant and accurate digital
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iCIM is an online collaborative Building Information Modelling (BIM) tool that facilitates the carbon assessment of a building. It does this by informing designers, throughout the building life cycle, of the impact of their decisions on carbon. Through its use it will lead to zero-carbon and low-impact buildings, by compliance checking for energy performance with
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The National BIM Library is a free online library consisting of generic and proprietary BIM objects such as walls, windows, doors, foundations, cladding, roofs in IFC format and formats for use in Autodesk Revit, Bentley, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks and Teckla. The creation of these BIM objects in the National BIM Library in IFC format have been developed by using
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In June 2011, the UK Government announced its BIM Working Party Strategy that states the requirement for all its construction projects to be using 3D BIM by the year 2016. At the beginning of this 5-year program, the total requirement for the first year is that every project should have a "spreadsheet containing as much information
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