In partnership with Stevens Construction Institute, the University of Florida’s Center for Advanced Construction Information Modeling (CACIM) has developed a research questionnaire to assess the maturity and quality of BIM implementation within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) industry. Below is a link to a brief survey of 21 questions hosted on Zoomerang which is divided into three parts:
Part I: Demographics
Part II: Organizational BIM Maturity
Part III: Project-Wide BIM Maturity
All responses will remain confidential and the results will be used for research purposes only. To express our gratitude for your generous participation, you will receive a short summary of the study and its findings via email on March 15, 2012. Thank you for your time and participation. We appreciate your support and look forward to sharing the anonymous results with you!
Survey Link: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22E6WJQ72UV
Hi There Matt,
I just stumbled across this and, Finally, the truth is revealed about antidepressants. Lead researcher, Professor Irving Kirsch from the Psychology department at the University of Hull, said, “The difference in improvement between patients taking placebos and patients taking antidepressants is not very great. This means that depressed people can improve without chemical treatments. Given these results, there seems little reason to prescribe antidepressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients, unless treatments have failed to provide a benefit. This study raises serious issues that need to be addressed surrounding drug licensing and how drug trial data is reported.”
Thanks
It’s amazing to start to see the difference that BIM modeling is making in commercial construction, but I have to say that it seems quite behind the 8ball when it comes to virtual modeling. Several of our manufacturers only recently started offering BIM models of their Bathroom Partitions and Bobrick Bathroom Accessories. To my disappointment, many of these models are low quality, inaccurate and do not allow us to draft a commercial bathroom with realism.
I agree with this.
@One Point Partition Have you tried using Google Sketch up? I know quality and accuracy are important when it comes to drafting
Virtual modelling can be far superior to BIM, but each of them have their strengths and weeknesses.