All articles by James Austin – Page 2

  • building a mini
    Blogs

    Managing change

    2011-05-31T12:16:00Z

    With costs rising faster than in any other manufacturing industry, construction is ripe for a change

  • Avoiding the drop
    Blogs

    Avoiding the drop…

    2011-05-23T15:27:00Z

    A lot of people have used the betamax analogy with regard to BIM - it drives home the momentum that it is gathering across the industry but it also highlights some of the problems

  • Scanning
    Blogs

    Now I see the point

    2011-05-16T11:03:00Z

    As scanners and software become more sophisticated, the potential of the point cloud is growing

  • The flying house from Up
    Blogs

    Flying Buildings

    2011-05-09T10:48:00Z

    The construction industry can learn from airplane manufacturers’ mistakes

  • Fallingwater as envisioned by Lego
    Blogs

    Lego BIM

    2011-04-18T10:18:00Z

    Has Lego found the key to delivering BIM?

  • horse racing
    Blogs

    Always back a niche market…

    2011-04-11T10:27:00Z

    Backing a winner with bim

  • Bim dagram
    Blogs

    Opportunity knocks

    2011-04-05T10:29:00Z

    Bim is a no-brainer for us, but it gets really exciting when you start to talk about the ’what-ifs’…

  • 2012
    Blogs

    2012

    2011-03-28T10:33:00Z

    To some 2012 means the Olympics, to others it means the end of the world. To me it means new software.

  • learning
    Blogs

    Learning Revit, understanding bim

    2011-03-21T10:49:00Z

    When I talk about learning BIM, I could just as well be asking people to refocus their attention to collaborating better…

  • Blogs

    Down Turn: Up Skill

    2011-03-15T09:52:00Z

    I seem to have heard a lot of people talk about jobs in the past week. And I don’t mean projects that they are working on, but the type of ‘jobs’ that you can’t talk about at work – the ones that aren’t where you are currently working…

  • Jamie Oliver
    Blogs

    Bim School

    2011-03-08T09:58:00Z

    When it comes to learning about bim, we need to think more like Jamie Oliver and adapt our attitude to education

  • Oxen
    Blogs

    Modernise or die

    2011-02-28T10:48:00Z

    BIM is a process - so it is pointless creating an institute, using the ’right’ software, and thinking it will save your job.

  • Apple water
    Blogs

    Installing updates complete...

    2011-02-21T15:18:42.487Z

    Two new free products from Autodesk and Tekla whet the bim geek's appetite.

  • a BIM project
    Blogs

    Dammit, I do bim…

    2011-02-14T11:31:00Z

    Bim is becoming a buzzword, but the real message is being lost amongst the hype.

  • Fear
    Blogs

    Kainotophobics Anonymous

    2011-02-07T10:15:00Z

    Fear is the main obstacle to BIM uptake in the UK

  • z car
    Blogs

    Struggling for a link…

    2011-01-31T11:01:00Z

    How long before we stop lamenting the threats to our profession and start to see opportunities for innovation?

  • Rivet
    Blogs

    My new blog is the bim

    2011-01-24T15:32:00Z

    Introducing BDonline’s latest blogger…