There are No LODs
I tweeted this today and I thought it was worth a repost here for all the Facebook and LinkedIn followers… There are no LODs. There are only: Design Models, Construction Models, and Operations Models …
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A different take on the LODs
Posts and articles about Level Of Development are so prevalent, and they can tend to be repetitive, or controversial, or somewhat tedious (or is it just me?) But recently I thought of a different way …
BIM & Performative Design Resources from AU2013
There is a nice selection of AU2013 videos embedded into a recent post on Form Follows Performance, starting with: AB2947: Applying Open Standards and Levels of Development (LOD) to Building Informati…
What Use is BIM Really? Is there more than one? (PDF)
To oversimplify, this document essentially forms a categorized glossary of terms that show how the BIM process works and what kind of information is generated by it. Excerpt: Download it at:http://bim…
De-Duplicating the BIM process, and a Checklist for preliminary BIM Coordination Meeting
A new challenge faced by collaborative design teams – how to work concurrently, yet not do the same thing four times? Consider these comments from Glenn Jowett:“If you look at the process of designing…
Good RFO discussion on BIM, LOD, Co-ordination and BEPs
I think that every BIM decision, for standards, LOD, deliverables etc will always be project based, and while you can have a preferred company standard and champion it, different requirements will mea…
The LOD discussion (debate?) continues…
Following the release of BIMForum’s LOD spec, there has been a bit of a blog discussion happening, involving at least the following three posts: practical BIM: LOD, are we there yet…using BIM for the …
LOD Specification – 2013 version
EDIT Article about this here Its all over the Twitterverse and Blogosphere, but the magnitude of this document still requires a post here. Download a copy of the August 22, 2013 version of LOD Specifi…