Faith in the quality of structural-steel building-information-model file transfers between different BIM platforms increased recently, thanks to a series of digital-data-exchange validation tests ...

Scan to BIM is the process of converting laser-scanned point cloud data into a Building Information Model (BIM), most commonly created in Autodesk Revit. BIMPROVE delivers Scan to BIM models at LOD ...

Will Ikerd maintains it will take less than 10 years for building information modeling to transform structural engineering. He’s helping that happen as co-chair of the BIM committee, formed last year, ...

Like the weather, everyone in the AEC industry is talking about using BIM models for operations and maintenance, but no one—well, almost no one—is doing anything about it. That’s because there’s a ...

In 2008, the American Institute of Architects released its first BIM contract document—AIA E202 Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit—which outlined five “levels of development” (LOD 100-500) ...

Trimble today introduced the 2026 version of its Tekla ® software for constructible Building Information Modeling (BIM), structural engineering and steel fabrication management, delivering data-driven ...

While mass timber and off-site construction remain in the foreground, the associated digital technologies for architects have had a quieter evolution. Aiming to bring these issues to the architectural ...