Over the last week or so, there has been a new trend sweeping through the BIM community on twitter. The idea; sharing your opinions on the most important rules to follow when working with BIM. The #BIMandments as they were so named by @AYBABTM from @case_inc has seen over 50 BIM crazy users tweeting their advice for others, with well over 500 tweets in total.

I tried out Project Storm with Revit structure for the first time last week. I was impressed at the simplicity of the program. Just like most user friendly BIM software packages, your work load has been cut and for a structural engineer Project Storm can give a solid interpretation of the structural/static analysis of a project.

Just a quick post to let you all know that I will be uploaing a starters guide to Project Vasari and Project Storm over the next few days. If you have not already experimented with them, I will be giving a simple tutorial to follow to get to grips with the programs. From what I have seen both programs are extremely user friendly, working in the Revit Architecture / Structure 2012 interfaces. Look forward to hearing some responses about how everyone else is getting on with Vasari and Storm, and to what practical uses they have been applied! Hope you all have a great day and report back tomorrow for more!

McGraw Hill construction have released another industry report about the trends and financing of construction projects. The 2009 report was an influential part of my university dissertation, with a wealth of knowledge and case studies about how BIM was effecting the construction industry.  

Hey guys, hope you've all had a great weekend. Today I finally got round to writing and uploaded a short beginners tutorial to using Autodesk's Project VasariV2.1. To view the tutorial click this text to be forwarded to the correct location.

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Today I will be rounding up some of the key points and questions raised during the #BIMseries event yesterday. Overal the event was a great success with a lot of valuable information being discussed. Over 800 live viewers tuned in to watch, with the conversation flowing on Twitter. I would just like to personally thank the organisers and all of the guest speakers for putting on a great event and very much look forward to the next episode in March. 

"In honor of Valentine’s Day, Cannon Design is launching a creative writing competition for the love of BIM. Everyone in Cannon Design is invited to submit a short piece extolling their love and affection for building information modeling (BIM). The most compelling piece penned by an employee of Cannon Design will win a trip to the Revit Technology Conference (RTC) USA in Stone Mountain Georgia. Those outside Cannon Design are ineligible to win the top prize but are still encouraged to send in their prose. The best submissions will be featured on our firm’s blog."

Firstly I'd like to let you know about the upcoming blog posts which I will be writing next week. I will be writing a review of the BIMSpectrum event which took place this week, I will discuss my favourite presentations and my general thoughts on the event. I will also be posting a blog about ImaginIt's Clarity for Revit server. I have also discovered some great BIM projects over the last few weeks which I am planning to discuss on this blog.