Week-3 Blog Grading Comments

Reading your posts this week was enjoyable and informative.  Almost all of you were thoughtful and appropriately incorporated (and learned from, I believe) the work of your classmates.

As might be expected there were several themes that stood out to this reader:

• The issue of interoperability is clearly one that is far from solved – and is important
• The interaction between all the stakeholders in the building process is increasing and coming earlier in the design process thanks to the tool.
• Question:  Are there stakeholders not yet regularly included?  Code Officials; Users; Maintenance People; Tenants; Fire Safety; Insurance?
• The use of BIM is now concentrated in the design and construction phase, but will probably have major benefits throughout the life of a building.
• Cost, capitalization, investment and other financial measures are extremely important.
• Legal issues haven’t yet become prominent, but may well in future.
• There was only one indirect comment on the age of this edition of BIM Handbook.  Six years is a long time in the BIM world.  Some of what was appropriate in 2007 is no longer true in 2013.

 

Grading Mechanics

• Three of you still did not submit to BbLearn and thus lost 5 points this time (I searched them out despite my threat not to do so).
• Don’t forget to cite your sources, including the assigned book.
• A few people were either rushed or careless and lost points on grammar and/or length.