Software for Veterans Affairs

For 3dBIM - Revit BIM, Bentley BIM, ArchiCAD, Tekla, Vectorworks

For 4d Scheduling - Synchro, Vico, NavisWorks Simulate, Primavera, MS Project, Bentley Navigator

For 5d Cost Estimating - Innovaya, Vico, Tokmo

For Clash/Coordination - NavisWorks Manage, Bentley Navigator, Solibri Model Checker, Horizontal Glue, EPM Model Server, BIMServer

For COBie - Tokmo COBIE exchange

Department of Veterans Affairs releases BIM Guide

The VA recently released its BIM Guide to the public at a meeting of the Federal Facilities Council's Emerging Technologies Committee. The VA Guide includes an Excel file which is an outstanding advancement over previous guides. To locate the document, select REFERENCES, then select OBJECT ELEMENT MATRIX FILE. It shows what information is to be provided by who and when in the overall planning, design, construction, commissioning cycle.

Also happy to report that VA is requiring construction product submittals to use the COBIE Standard. VA is the first large owner to make COBIE as a requirement versus an option even though the savings reported by firms responsible for populating data in CMMS/CAFM systems is about 80%! There is now a reasonably robust set of software applications , a growing set of commissioning oriented firms, and owner/managers adopting COBIE.

Wiley Publishing to Provide Autodesk Official Training Guides for 2011 Products

Sybex, an Imprint of Wiley Publishing, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a global leader in the publishing of educational materials, has executed a brand licensing agreement with Autodesk, Inc. under which ten titles on leading Autodesk products will be exclusively designated as “Autodesk Official Training Guides.” Five of these titles are from Sybex’s Mastering series and have been enhanced to cover the learning objectives for Autodesk’s certification exams.

The Autodesk Official Training Guides and their availability dates are:

* Introducing Autodesk Maya 2011 (Available)
* Mastering AutoCAD and AutoCAD 2011* (May 2010)
* AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD 2011: No Experience Required (June 2010)
* Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011: No Experience Required (July 2010)
* Mastering Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011* (July 2010)
* Mastering 3ds Max Design 2011* (August 2010)
* Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011* (August 2010)
* Mastering Autodesk Inventor 2011* (August 2010)
* Mastering Autodesk Maya 2011 (August 2010)
* Mastering Autodesk Revit MEP 2011 (August 2010)

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