Last week it was fantastic to see over 400 construction professionals in Newcastle for BIM Show Live. A collection of photographs and videos below from the event...
Space Group Rob welcomes the speakers to Newcastle
The recently refurbished 1820 railway building - 'The Boiler Shop'
Rob explains that this was where Stephen's Rocket was built - the steam engine design chosen in 1829 as best to power the railways
Each room had a North East feel and was named after a famous geordie
From NBS, both myself and my colleague Drew Wiggett presented - to find out more about NBS products and services for BIM - please see below:
- https://www.thenbs.com/services/bim-projects
I've known Mark since the days when he was chair of UK buildingSMART and hosting buildingSMART meetings in the Scott Wilson offices in London. Since then Mark went on to persuade the UK Government that it would be a good idea to 'do BIM' - and then was the driving force behind the BIM level-2 initiative.
Only 50 people could fit in the room. So - a few slides from the presentation below and also the embedded video of the presentation from our NBS youtube channel.
I'd definitely recommend finding 30-40 minutes one lunchtime and watching the video at the end of this blog post...
The first lecture in our new building
Paul Morrell's reflection on the UK achievements
A reflection on where technology was when Mark started out on his career
The exponential growth of computing power
Using the cloud, and apps, and feedback to create a better society based on evidence of performance
The roof top garden, lecture theater and boardroom
The Hub
The decking looking out onto Newcastle Cathederal
The specification for the flat roof above The Hub (specified using NBS of course)
Another roof top garden shot
The ground floor office space
The exhibition space
The facade (as it has been for over 100 years)
Update 26/01 (a couple of pics from the official photographer) - it was a real privilege to the get the chance to show off our digital solutions to the guests :)
Our super new lecture theatre (sits 50-60)
How our digital solutions connect together
You can also see how we used the design model for the building in one of our NBS videos below...
This week I was fortune enough to attend the Pitch at Palace event at Sunderland Software Centre.
In addition to celebrating all things 'Tech' in the North East, it also was a chance for a number of up-and-coming tech businesses to pitch to His Royal Highness The Duke of York at part of the Pitch at Palace initiative.
North East excellence in technology
It was a super day and a bit of who's who in the North East technology industry. Prince Andrew came across really genuinely as really supporting up-and-coming innovations. He was engaging with speakers and even occasionally heckling them :) It was also fantastic to hear the keynote speech from Leighton's Gerard Callaghan. As part of this story was an early extranet/ftp project they did for Taylor Woodrow which eventually turned into 4 Projects.
Prince Andrew supporting technology in the North East
The founder of 4projects Gerard Callaghan
The winners
Well done to Billy Webber for chairing the day - and well done to the winners that have now gone through to present at the actual Palace in London in the final. Also, great to see that one of the winners was Ami Davies who used to work in the NBS team!
BIM Show Live 2017 is fast approaching (1st and 2nd Feb) and it looks like it's going to better than ever.
BIM Show Live
Since BIM Show Live #2 NBS have always played a part in the UK's biggest and best BIM event and this year it will be no different. It's a little bit more special this year of course as the event is only a few hundred meters from our offices in Newcastle upon Tyne!
NBS will be doing technology demonstrations, contributing to panel discussions and running one of the classes. So if you want to catch up with us and know anything more about our products and services, we'll be on hand over the two days.
If you haven't booked your place then you can do so through our NBS portal below. The web article also includes a summary of the great speakers that will be at the event.
I hope to see lots of new and familiar faces over the two days. For those that need a reminder of what BIM Show Live is all about - some of my blog posts from me from 2012 onwards below:
Since 2011 at NBS we have run a national BIM survey to gain a true reflection as to what the industry thinks about the topic of building information modelling.
This will be our seventh annual survey. The majority of questions are consistent with previous years to allow trends to be monitored. Additional questions are also added this year to gain an insight into the industries BIM Level-2 attitudes and also to see which emerging digital technologies will have the biggest impact on our industry.
So please take part in and forward the link below around your colleagues - from the BIM evangelists to the biggest of skeptics. It takes around ten minutes to go through the survey - the final report will be freely available on our website in a few months time.
Please give us your views on the place of specifications in the construction industry.
Our survey closes on Sunday and we've had a fantastic response so far. But this is one final call out to help us push those numbers up even higher so that we can deliver as strong an insight as possible into this topic.
Our Research and Analysis team do surveys and publish the corresponding reports for free to industry throughout the year. Recent examples being our BIM report and Brexit report.
We officially opened our new NBS building in Newcastle this week.
The local media was at the launch...
Check out the following video from our Twitter account telling the story of the building and an amazing story of a couple who met in the building in 1942!
- https://twitter.com/theNBS/status/801459519037603840
Did you catch our new office space on @BBCLN last night? We had two very special guests come along to see the changes we've made ... pic.twitter.com/nvWiNJUQyW
