A new website promoting BIM was launched today, Friday 07th December.

The site allows organisations, project teams and professionals to share their BIM learning and experiences in a common location, inspiring further uptake. It's capped at one million places and called 'The B1M' (which stands for the BIM one million).

The Wilmott Dixon BIM team have released an excellent short movie describing BIM and it's benefits throughout the process. Some excellent examples of virtual models are also available to see, with a large selection of #ukbimcrew projects featured. Check it out below!

For me, 2012 has been a great year of researching and learning. Thanks to many contributors who share their knowledge throughout various sources on the internet, this has been a succesful process as far as finding the top quality information which you can use in real life situations for your work.

With the uptake of BIM becoming more widespread, many will embark on a similar journey. Organisations or individuals may come across the same problems or successes, and for many BIM adoption will be a steep learning curve. If we embark upon the journey alone there is no doubt that we’ will reinvent the wheel and miss the opportunity to learn from others. BIM knowledge management is therefore a topic for discussion.

Yesterday saw the launch of the BIM 2050 group. This a government supported project with the focus on young professionals shaping the future for BIM in the UK construction industry. The main aim of the group is to focus on the following areas:

Like it or not, as a technology professional, the cloud WILL become part of our every day work in the near future - if it's not already! Many applications which you currently use may already use cloud technology without you even realising it. Security issues are of course a big concern when moving forward with tecnolgoy and into new ways of working. There are many questions that need to be answered in order to make the cloud user feel like their sensitive data is secure.

The idea for The B1M came from a desire to encourage wide-spread sharing of BIM knowledge and experiences in one location helping people understand it better.

If you are following me on Twitter, or a close follower of this blog - You will have noticed a new link appear in the top menu of BIMopedia. 'Documents' is a public portal area where I will be uploading and storing various BIM Documents from around the web. 

I'm pretty excited to announce - The eagerly awaited new software, VEO by M-SIX has finally been released! This is very exciting news as I've heard a lot of hype about this software without actually knowing too much about the functions.