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A short description of the activities detailed in the BIMStorm BIG BIM Bang White Paper also posted on SlideShare.

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BIMStorm® BIG BIM Bang Summary Available

An illustrated White Paper Explaining the value of participation in BIMStorm® BIG BIM Bang is available at www.BIMStorm®.com

BIMStorm® BIG BIM Bang workshops held on December 7th and 8th, 2011 at he Washington, DC Ecobuild conference demonstrated web-based building industry business processes being used by federal and state building departments to improve building cost efficiencies.

BIMStorm® is the award-winning, learn-by-doing workshop featuring web-based data sharing through Building Information Models and Geographic Information Systems.

Live participants at in the BIMStorm® BIG BIM Bang at Ecobuild 2011 were joined by others online.

The current BIMStorm® BIG BIM Bang has included 6 weeks of webinars and a live series of demonstrations using real building data from Kaiser Permanente and California Community Colleges. BIMStorm® is free for building industry professionals to use the real data and learn from the existing participants. Participants joining the BIMStorm® can be part of final presentations in January and February 2012.

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So far, more than 145 people have used more than 33 building industry software tools to create more than 100 schemes including more than 1,500 buildings totaling more than 17 million square feet valued at more than $1.8 billion in construction. The buildings include more than 12,000 spaces with more than 18,000 pieces of furniture.

"BIMStorm is a sandbox for us to try new things; to take a chance using a process or tool that has not been proven,” says Jason Reece, Sr. Manager, Technology and Process Development at Balfour Beatty Construction “Participation in this event isn't limited by contracts, or fear of failure. There is no reason not to try something new during BIMStorm; it can only teach you something you did not know before." Balfour Beatty is a BIMStorm® Platinum sponsor and had about 50 staff and colleagues participate in the activities.

Hyde Griffith, Vice President at Broaddus & Associates, used the the BIMStorm® to manage data between the ONUMA System web server, Gehry Technology's GTX Server and COBie formats to demonstrate building industry business processes available today. Griffith noted that technology is not the issue – good business processes are the key. “Work flows and business rules are harder to address than software coding,” says Griffith, whose colleague Matt Moore, Broaddus' BIM Manager also participated in the event for Broaddus, also a sponsor. “BIMStorm activities allow building industry professionals to use real project data before they have to work on real projects,” Moore stated.

Griffith concluded, “BIMStorm allows us to find ways to piece together and refine the value proposition to the project and the owner.”

Learn more from the Illustrated White Paper and how to learn how to use web-based building industry building processes with real building data from national owners, go to www.BIMStorm.com/WAS

What California Community College Executives are Saying

Comments on Integration of GIS, BIM and Facility Data.“How to bring it together? We think we have cracked it, we are doing it today. We have taken

FUSION data that is information stored in central repository and rendered it back into BIM, and our existing legacy buildings, by using a product that has opened the world for us, which uses

web services, which uses open standards, and is able to talk to not only standard interfaces, but also using proprietary APIs”. http://vimeo.com/23288637

Lee Belarmino - Former VP of Information Technology at San Joaquin Delta College.

“We achieved the connection between facility data, geographic information systems and BIM and created immediate value for the entire inventory of 71 million square feet. This has allowed us to

achieve rapid, accurate results at a modest cost. The smart, adaptable design of the ONUMA System, has allowed FUSION to make great progress in a short time. This has required far less of

my staff's time than I anticipated--approximately one full-time equivalent spread over three people. This allows me, despite frozen budgets, to offer new features to my college districts at a

time when they need it most”.John Roach - Executive Director, Technology Services

Foundation for California Community Colleges

Preliminary plan for a new Athletic Facility at CostaMesa College by BIMStorm® participant Tim Blatner, AIA.