One source of truth… One database… Shared across the web by countless users. Horizontal Glue provides for one… web-accessible… model for all players on a project. I saw a demo of this a couple of months ago. This approach enables architects, engineers, owners and builders across the globe to collaborate in real time in over 40 different 3D formats, while providing a solution to distribute BIM data into external business systems. … Glue brings BIM to the cloud with technology that supports multi-discipline model collaboration and intelligent object data exchange for the building and infrastructure industries. The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” – Brian Tracy (Self-Help Author) At AU 2011 Autodesk announced it’s intent to acquire Horizontal Systems (developers of Horizontal Glue.) The deal is expected to close before the end of Autodesk’s fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, which ends Jan. “Now, lets get the dogs to eat the dog food.” and “They are too busy chasing pigs to mend the fence.”) :)Īutodesk University 2011- approx 7000 folks who aren’t afraid of the Big Bad BIM (not very afraid, anyway.)
Robotic Total Stations, Get-the-Point, Augmented Reality, etc etc.) Digital-to-Analog is the step that takes our Virtual Designs and places them in Reality quickly and accurately.Laser Scanning, Photogrammetry, PKNail, etc…) Many techniques of Reality Capture are gaining ground and influencing how our Virtual Reality designs are interacting with the Actual Reality already in place (i.e.
Efforts to leverage BIM is occurring at the both the front and back end of our processes.The idea of Infinite Computing has the potential to effect our efficiency in ways that we are only just discovering. The Cloud is at the forefront of everyone’s minds and presentations.Attendance seemed to be up from 2009 (the last time I attended.).While I am still processing all that I saw and experienced, here are a few things that stood out (to me anyway.) The Big Bad Bim doesn’t fear the Big Bad Yearįinally home and recovering from a totally packed week in Las Vegas. While I really like the idea of the calendar continuing forward, “business as usual.” This is becoming increasingly less and option for our industry.
Personally, I think the ending of the Mayan Calendar is more akin to the comic below than anything. It remains to be seen what the coming year will bring. Or will we see an Age of Enlightenment in which Designer, Contractor and Owner work together using IPD, BIM and other collaborative tools to create efficient, quality facilities on time and under budget? Will we see an End of Days scenario in which the down economy forces more firms to close up shop, fewer firms taking the “risk” of adopting new technology and process, and a “tightening of belts” that equals razor thin margins across the board? What will happen in the AEC industry this year? You probably were aware of this (unless you don’t have access to The Discovery Channel, BBC, History Channel, NPR, or the Internet.)Īnticipated by some, is a period of enlightenment where people and social conditions change for the better (again tied to the ending of the Mayan calendar.) The most hyped phenomenon related to this event is The End of Days. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar (sometimes called the Mayan calendar) is coming to an end this year.