P4–Final Papers Comments

The overall quality of the papers was good, with a considerable range of topics – see below.

Strengths

• You collectively examined a wide range of topics – we’ll hear about many of them in class.
• Several people pushed Revit a long way
• Several wound up questioning how easy this conversion to BIM really is

Problems

• A few people still had papers that were too general
• There were a few problems of lack of citations to support assertions
• A few people didn’t proofread very well and thus had silly grammar errors

 

Topics

01 Tannenbaum, Matt and Milligan, Kevin - BIM Creating Intelligent & Green Buildings
02, Drogalis, James and Young, Charlie - Drexel Smarthouse BIM Modeling
03 Glencross, Brandon and Patel, Neil - Revit Architecture and Structure
04 Belardi, Robert and Mahon, Bill - Robotic Applications in Construction
05 Kahn, Matthew and Regnier, Adam - The Ideal Sensor
06 Jurgelwicz, Kyle - Building a Family in Revit
07 Lin, Shuiqiang - BIM for Suppliers: how adapt in the transforming industry
08 Ferraioli, Michael - Revit Architecture and Structure
11 Matthews, Peter - Revit and Bentley Interchange
12 Donovan, Mark - Website Database Design
13 Brown, Lemond - Robotics in Construction
15 Auman, Jonathan - Safety and Efficiency Improvements with Robotics in Construction
17 Reiter, Squibb, Thorley - Using Revit to Redesign Myers Hall
18 Guarneri, Joesph- BIM Technology in the Construction Industry
19 Vu, Lynn - Cloud Computing & BIM
20 Day, Corey  -  Robotics In Building Automated Systems

P6 Finding Your Team Number

Question

“I was wondering where we find out what team number we are for the week 10 presentations? I read on the blog that you broke the class in to groups that are composed of teams, I just do not know which team number I am.”

Answer

If you go to the P5 Assignment submission you'll see that the line at the top gives your "Term Project - xx" where xx is your team number. I checked this as a student so I know it works.  It's much more evident when I look as a teacher – sorry it's hidden away in that manner.

Smart Buildings = $$

Dr. Haas circulated the following article.

IBM Officials See New Jobs Stemming From Smarter, More Efficient Buildings.

Computerworld (3/2, Thibodeau) reports, "The need to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and the reliability of utilities has created a multi-billion dollar market opportunity for IBM, along with new job opportunities for IT professionals, executives say." The company is busy "developing systems that can turn vast amounts of data collected by sensors, GPS and RFID systems in buildings and infrastructure systems into information that can be acted on to save energy and improve efficiency," which it is marketing as part of its "Smarter Planet" campaign. Officials said the integrated infrastructure and IT systems will require professionals skilled with both. Such programs already exist. "In 2004, Carnegie Mellon University has created a graduate program on advanced infrastructure systems," which exposes civil engineers to research "that requires collaboration with the school's computer science and electrical engineering department."