
Spring Conference 2017
Our conference this year was held at the Building Centre in London and was generously supported by IFS. The central venue, good weather and great agenda all conspired to make this one our most successful conferences to date. In total we had 130 delegates from nearly 70 different organisations, most of whom attended both days of the conference. The snap general election and consequent purdah rules gave us a few last minute issues but we had a strong agenda and some fantastic s

Record-breaking Community Day
More than 90 people attended our Spring Community day, held in partnership with ECI at the Bentley BIM Academy in London

A fundamental problem with most BIM deployments
Congratulations! You have forced your supply chain to collaborate, working together on a common data environment that controls all your data using BS/ PAS 1192 principles. You have set up a working COBie exchange mechanism and secured all your information according to the advice in part 5. The client was enlightened, following the guidelines in the Soft Landings documents and BS8536, ensuring they had libraries, templates and a common classification system. All looked too goo

Asset Tagging - Tracking the Duty of an Asset not the Product
When we talk about asset information requirements we talk about the pieces of information we need to answer critical questions throughout the life-cycle of a “thing”. There will be databases, documents, drawings, metadata, spreadsheets, 3D/4D/5D models and all number of pieces of information generated in many forms before we know what physical thing or product is going to fulfil that role. We identify this virtual need and the space it occupies with a unique identifier that w

Open to All BIM session 23rd March
On the 23rd of March COMIT held an Open to All session aimed at giving a common understanding to all parties about this thing called “BIM”. Even though it was sponsored by one of our technology members, Bentley Systems and we are a mobile technology community, the session was not about software but about the background, reasons, standards, methods and principles that need to be understood and linked together to really understand what it’s all about. The 16 strong audience was