Technical
Beyond Technology – A look at the disconnect between VDC and business practices in our industry
March 8, 2023 @12pm Eastern The first of a 3-session series by the BIMForum. Over the last two decades the building industry has developed technologies and processes that allow for the seamless integration of building data from conceptual design, through estimating, fabrication, construction, and ultimately facilities management. We now refer to this as Virtual Design…
Read MoreAdvancing Digital Delivery and Open Standards in the Private and Public Sectors
February 8, 2023 @12pm Eastern Join us as we begin buildingSMART USA’s 2023 Webinar Series with insights from exemplary women actively advancing digital delivery and open standards in our industry’s public and private sectors. Karen Kensek (USC School of Architecture) will facilitate panellists Alexa Mitchell, PE (HDR), Cindy Baldwin (VDCO Tech), and Lynn Hiel (Caltrans)…
Read MoreExpanding openBIM Standards and Implementations with openCDE
December 14, 2022 @12pm Eastern Please join us as we explore the new buildingSMART International openCDE (Common Data Environment) family of standards to provide open connectivity and communication between CDE platforms and BIM tools for the building and infrastructure domains in the built asset industry. This includes the Foundations API, Documents API, and the BIM…
Read MoreLinking Design, Construction and Asset Management Data Models using Open BIM-GIS Standards
November 9, 2022 @12pm Eastern Data models are created during planning, survey, design, construction, operations and maintenance phases of the asset life cycle using different modeling standards and practices. This webinar focuses on data models created in design, construction, and asset management systems. The speakers will present how data models created across these systems can…
Read MoreReview of bSI Spring 2022 Virtual Summit Technical Room Discussions
April 13, 2022 @ 12:00 pm Eastern This month we’ll look at the discussions from the Technical Room sessions at the buildingSMART International Spring 2022 Virtual Summit and see how they may impact the implementation, deployment, support, and further development of IFC and related standards in the US market. Speaker: Jeffrey W. Ouellette (jō consulting,…
Read MoreIntroducing the bS-USA Solution Provider Group
Introducing the bS-USA Solution Provider Group January 12, 2022 @ 12:00 pm Eastern Our next webinar will introduce the new Solution Provider Group (SPG) being led by Christian Connor from Procore in conjunction with Jeffrey W. Ouellette as Chair of the US Chapter’s Techinical Committee. The new SPG gives software and hardware vendors the opportunity…
Read MoreIFC Today and Tomorrow: Toward a New Architecture of Interoperability
IFC Today and Tomorrow: Toward a New Architecture of Interoperability October 13 @ 12:00 pm Eastern Join the bS-USA Technical Committee to look at the past, present, and future of the original foundation of buildingSMART’s interoperability standards, Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). As the built asset industry matures in its digitization efforts and the technologies everyone…
Read MoreThe buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) Service & US national standard content (USDD)
The buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) Service & US national standard content (USDD) August 11 @ 12:00 pm Eastern buildingSMART International has built a new platform to serve the information rationalization and cross-referencing needs of the built asset industry, the bSDD. Join Dr. Aaron Costin of the University of Florida M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction…
Read MoreMeet the New buildingSMART USA Technical Committee
Meet the New buildingSMART USA Technical Committee June 23 @ 12:00 pm Eastern The first of the buildingSMART USA Webinar series; join us as the new USA chapter of buildingSMART showcases the Technical Committee with its leaders Jeffrey W. Ouellette and Dr. Dennis Shelden. We’ll see what is in store for the future of the…
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