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BIM for Infra at ICE south region meeting - Plymouth University

Hi,

I stood in for a colleague this week and presented at the ICE south region meeting. There was a good turnout and some engaging discussion around what BIM means to Civil Engineers in the current UK context (see http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/ if you don't know what I'm referring to). Anyway, I've been getting some requests for the slides I used, so I thought I would ask Jack if it was OK to use this as a distribution mechanism so anyone can grab them. Ian McGregor

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RISING TO THE CHALLENGE WITH BIM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE – Webcast with NCE Magazine

Join us, online, for our discussion webinar with Q and A at 2:30pm GMT on
Thursday 22nd November

Join Mark Hansford, Deputy Editor of NCE and Jack Strongitharm, BIM industry expert and Autodesk Transportation Industry Solutions Manager, for a look at how BIM is helping civil engineers tackle the follow challenges that many of us often face:

• You need to balance a number of objectives such as safety, cost, environmental impact, client standards, and more. This requires time-consuming manual validation of designs against local standards and constraints.
• Design changes happen every day. With every change, engineering teams can spend hours updating affected parts of the project.
• Analysis is often disconnected from design, and evaluating the impact and feasibility of changes can be time-consuming and lead to missed deadlines.
• Delivering construction documentation for a transportation project has traditionally been a time-consuming, error-prone task.
• Powerful visuals are a key component in creating competitive differentiation and more quickly capturing the necessary project approvals. But communicating project proposals and design intent to stakeholders can be time-consuming and is often disconnected from the design process.

Register now to watch as Autodesk and NCE consider and address these challenges and understand how Autodesk® BIM for Infrastructure can help you create better performing designs in a fast-paced, budget-constrained environment.

This webinar will also have a question and answer session which will provide you with a chance to give your view and enter the BIM debate!

Autodesk licenses technology for borehole field data from Keynetix

We have some exciting developments underway with Keynetix www.keynetix.com that will help automate the process of importing borehole field data into a project model.

I am here at the #geotechnicaME conference in Doha this week

where I will be demonstrating with Keynetix a technology, which we have licensed, for AutoCAD Civil 3D and to use the data throughout the Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite and for use with model devices.

 

We hope to deliver this technology sometime next year.

Also there will be a class presentation at Autodesk University #AU2012 which will be presented by Gary Morin Director of Keynetix and special guest Dave Simeone (AutoCAD Civil 3D Product Manager) which will also preview this technology.

CI4020 - Using Geotechnical Data in AutoCAD® Civil 3D.

Jack Strongitharm