Date: October 12-13, 7:30am - 5:00pm

BIM Technology presents a solid process for selecting BIM tools. The course explores the major applications and classes of tools across project phases, how BIM processes for QTO, shop drawing and fabrication, and construction scheduling can improve projects, and the significant impact models have for improving estimating, scheduling, and coordinating.The goal of the BIM Technology course is to help participants become BIM champions within their organizations. The BIM Technology course is designed as a highly participatory, team–oriented event that balances group discussion and team assignments in an instructor–led format.

Following BIM Technology, participants will understand and appreciate the:

• Phases of a BIM project
• Classes of BIM technology
• Specific BIM applications
• Need for planning/organizing to use BIM tools
• Requirement to embed tools into process
• Process for selecting relevant BIM tools

Registration fees: $550 before 9/1/10; $600 after 9/1/10

Participants of this program are eligible for 16 AIA Learning Units, 16 Green Building Certification Institute CE Hours and 1.6 ANSI/IACET CEUs.

Date: October 13, 7:30am - 5:00pm

Unit 3 provides an in–depth look for both lawyers and those with no legal background at the ways the use of BIM processes and technologies can impact a project.

Following Unit 3, participants will understand and appreciate how to:

• Explain key BIM terms, roles, and related legal concepts
• Compare contract liability and standard of care for BIM and non–BIM projects
• Evaluate elements of a BIM Execution Plan and its negotiation
• Identify intellectual property rights and legal issues related to model usage
• Recognize limitation of existing insurance products and compare to BIM liability insurance
• Devise fair risk allocation and management on BIM projects
• Use BIM contract negotiation to establish pro–active collaborative BIM

Registration fees: $375 before 9/1/10; $425 after 9/1/10

Date: October 13, 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Tours of three local construction sites and buildings that have used BIM as an integral part of their design and construction process. The tours will depart from the lobby of the W Hotel Midtown Atlanta at 1 PM.

Registration fees: $50

Date:
October 14: 9:00 am - 7:00pm;
October 15: 8:00am - 12:00pm

The BIMForum recognizes that Owners and others in the building industry are struggling to determine if using BIM improves performance on a capital project. Therefore, the October BIMForum meeting will focus on whether real–world evidence substantiates the claims that BIM leads to higher performance in design, construction, operation, maintenance, or use of the completed building. In order to close the gap between theory and reality, the meeting will focus on demonstrable metrics that shows measurable improvements when compared to legacy processes, such as improvements in meeting budgets and schedules or in enhancing building performance related to energy efficiency, sustainability, occupant comfort and productivity, or environmental impacts. Topics will include:

• Is there any evidence that the design/construction teams employing BIM deliver higher performance as a result of implementing BIM?
• What post–occupancy evidence exists that demonstrates that BIM buildings perform as projected?
• What BIM tools are actively being used to predict or to realize high performance building design?
• Does a BIM provide quantifiable advantages when planning demolition and recycling of a building?
• Are there any potential liabilities associated with projected building performance based on BIM analysis?

Registration fees: $350 before 9/1/10; $450 after 9/1/10