BIM Toolkit - Update

Since we started on the BIM Toolkit project six weeks ago, there has been plenty of activity in terms of communicating the developments to the industry. An overview of this is below:

1. NBS Live – presentations
Members of the core team presented the outcomes of the feasibility study at the NBS Live conference. This included presentations from myself, Dave Philp (BIM Task Group), Alistair Kell (BDP), Adam Lamping (Laing O'Rourke), Stefan Mordue (NBS) and Claudio Benghi (BIM Academy).

The BIM Room at NBS Live

A write-up of this session is on the NBS website at:
- http://www.thenbs.com/topics/BIM/articles/NBS-live-introducing-the-BIM-toolkit.asp

All of the presentations from this session and all of the sessions at the NBS Live BIM room may be downloaded below:
- http://www.thenbs.com/nbs-live/presentations/index.asp

2. NBS Live – round table discussions
At NBS Live we also ran a round table discussion session on what the delegates hoped that the BIM Toolkit would provide.

Discussions around the table

A write up of this is below:
- http://www.thenbs.com/topics/bim/articles/BIM-toolkit-NBS-live-roundtable.asp

3. Construction News – webinar
The Construction News webinar on level-2 BIM featuring myself, Dale Sinclair from Aecom and Steve Spark from 4projects can now be viewed online:
- CN webinar on demand

Sinclair, myself and Spark in the studio

4. Building – webinar

The Building webinar on level-2 BIM session can also be viewed now on demand:
- Building webinar on demand

There were some good live polls during the Building webinar of the 600+ delegates watching on. Screenshots of these are below:

Poll 1

Poll 2

Poll 3

Over and above this, there have plenty of presentations and workshops behind the scenes to many different industry groups.

We have also slowly started our beta test activities with the first builds of the software and previews of the content taking place.

Our official web portal for the tool is at:
- theNBS.com/bimtoolkit/

Also, for everything about level-2 BIM, please visit:
- bimtaskgroup.org