The National Institute of Building Sciences Building Information Management Council is planning the upcoming release of COBie 3.0 as an update to the Construction to Operations Building information exchange (COBie 2.4) Specification. COBie 3.0 also will be published as an integral part of the upcoming version 4.0 of the National BIM Standard – United States.

Building information modeling is in many ways still a theory and not a reality. What do I mean by that? It’s still all about the data. It’s about data from the specialty contractors, which is the missing link to complete a true workflow of necessary inputs, whether it’s ISO 19650 requirements or working with software like Revit, MWF or LCP payroll tracker.

The National Institute of Building Sciences joined more than 2,000 public sector representatives from 100 countries to form a new Global BIM Network.

Autodesk announced Autodesk Takeoff, a product that empowers estimators to perform 2D and 3D quantification workflows from a common data environment to increase collaboration, speed and accuracy during the estimation process.

Hilti introduced its first robot, Jaibot, for semi-autonomous mobile ceiling-drilling.

The Cohesive Companies, a digital integrator investment of the Acceleration Fund of Bentley Systems, Inc., the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced its acquisition of Professional Construction Strategies Group Ltd, (PCSG). 

If you’re like a lot of busy contractors in the walls and ceilings industry, every day can be bid day if you’re working up multiple bids at the same time.