Below is a listing of the stories in this month's DATELINE, organized by categories. The full text is available to DBIA members through the mail.
Featured Stories
Directory of Design-Build Technology Solution Providers
BIMplementation Basics
By Michael LeFevre, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
In recent travels around the BIMosphere, I’ve observed (in spite of the positive momentum and growing number of Building Information Modeling users) many owners, designers, constructors and other members of design-build project teams still wrestling with BIM.
BIMposium
By DBIA Mid-America Region
Paul Brion, BIM Coordinator and Structural CAD Designer with DLR Group opened a session at the September Mid-America Design-Build Chapter Breakfast in Kansas City to hear industry professionals discuss “The Benefits of Building Information Modeling in the Design-Build Arena.”
Development Cornerstone
By Jason Reece
Many design and construction firms are just getting their feet wet in the Building Information Modeling (BIM) world — going to conferences, buying software and getting trained to use BIM tools.
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DBIA News
Team Player
By Christopher Prawdzik
If there’s a word that Barry Bannett, the recipient of the DBIA’s Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award, would use to describe his view, approach and conception of the right approach to building and construction, it’s “team.”
2008 National Design-Build Award Winners
2008 Designated Design-Build Professionals
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Departments
Letter from the Editor
The end of the year for many is one of reflection, some relaxation and optimism looking ahead. For design-build, that reflection has almost a sense of urgency this year. With an unpredictable economy and a soured building and construction outlook, it might give some design-builders pause.
Board Reflections
By Tom Porter, DBIA
No one reading this column can have overlooked the changes happening of late. Our global economy has descended into a troubled period of unknown duration. There was a tendency for many, myself included, to at first deny that the changes would really impact my business. But now we are past that point of denial; all thoughtful business people — particularly those of us at Ground Zero in Detroit — recognize the seriousness of the economic crisis.
DBIA Book Club
By Patricia Carpio
Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) are now indispensable tools in design-build. Though not as new a concept as some may think (the use of BIM was first suggested more than 30 years ago), it become widely used in the design and construction industry.
Members in the News
Projects to Watch
New Members
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