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Sami Boulos

Construction Management

Carl J. & Ruth Shapiro Cardiovascular

Center at Brigham & Women's Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Thesis Research

Survey for Industry Professionals

Sources:

Buckley, Bruce. “Federal Agencies look for speedy BIM Implementation”. Engineering News-Record. Vol. 257 (November 13, 2006): pg. 16.

This Engineering News-Record article provided some insight into the strives that the US government is making to help further adopt BIM practices wtihin the construction industry. At the time of my tesis, the BIM standard had already been approved and was being used, so the article was a little dated, but nonetheless provided another stepping stone for my research.

Buckley, Bruce. “BIM may change project delivery landscape; Building image modeling is changing communications between architects, contractors and subcontractors forever by making communication instantaneous and thorough”. Vol. 10 (July 1, 2007): pg. 19.

Another ENR article that discussed the advancements of the BIM push in the construction industry, specifically in regards to the ways in which BIM is causing an evolution in the communications between architects, engineers, owners, and all other parties involved with building construction.

Gonchar, Joann. “Transformative Tools Start to take hold; A Critical mass of building information modeling projects demonstrates the technology’s benefits and its potential for redefining practice”. Engineering News-Record. Vol. 258 (April 23, 2007): pg. 84.

This article provided some information about the potential changes to the building construction delivery methods as the industry enhances its BIM capabilities. The article talks about the common goals of BIM efforts, and also discussed the changes being predicted to occur in the traditioanl delivery methods of construction.

Gonchar, Joann. “To architects, building information modeling is still primarily a visualization tool; architects surveyed on building information modeling”. The Architectural Record. Vol. 194, Architectural Technology section, (July 1, 2006): 158.

Joann Gonchar's article here provided insight from an architect's perspective in regards to BIM. I particularly enjoyed this article because it allowed me to see some of the questions and concerns that the architecutre profession has with respect to developing a BIM model for the project.

MacFarlane, Candace I. “Building Information Modeling: The Way the Industry is going”. Intermountain Contractor. Vol. 62 (July 1, 2007): pg. 42.

I did not use this resource a whole lot, but I found a couple of interesting things to consider in my overall BIM research in the industry. It discusses the future of the industry with the belief that BIM is the way of the future. It supported this fact by talking about a BIM resource center at the University of Utah-Salt Lake City.

Staff, “First Standard for 3D Modeling due by year-end” Engineering News-Record. 256 (June 5, 2006): 31.

Another article that illustrated the GSA's interest in creating a BIM standard and thereby acting as a catalyst for more BIM support in the construction industry. It provides most of the same information as the Buckley article (first citation above), it was used as a backup resource to supplement the Buckley article.

Staff, “eArchitect: New model for climate change”. Building Design. November 17, 2006: pg. 20.

This article from "Building Design" again offered some opinions about BIM from the design perspective. The knowledge provided in this article is once again an attempt to illustrate the opinions and perceptions of a member of the construction industry that are not engineers or project management.

Post, Nadine M. “Team members seek ways out of the Building Modeling Haze; Designers and constructors struggle to craft kinder, gentler business models”. Engineering News-Record. Vol. 256, (June 5, 2006): 28.

This article provided the most research information for my thesis. Not only did it provide a couple definitions of Building Information Modeling, but it also gave some of the history of BIM efforts, the future of BIM, and also discussed relevant issues for the industry today, particularly current events.

Tulacz, Gary J. “Desogn-Build gets a big boost from new building-systems requirements; cooperation and collaboration is the key to success in BIM”. Engineering News-Record. Vol. 258 (June 11, 2007): pg. 41.

This was another article that was not widely used in my research, but did provide me with some ideas about what other issues to research in relation to BIM. One of the key points that I enjoyed was the discussion about how collaboration is so important, which I feel is something the industry takes for granted. The other key aspect in this article was the inclusion of Design-Build firms and their how their presence is also generating support for BIM in the industry.

Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in‐progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Sami Boulos. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.