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BuildingSMART LIVE LIVE develops the ideas & initiatives from Build LONDON Live 2008. It is a virtual engineering collaboration that does not rely on the physical co-location of people and computer equipment.By working across the web, many people from around the globe can participate.

WORLDS LARGEST BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL

The event will be the largest live BIM and engineering collaboration ever to be held. It will span the entire design process and all the disciplines usually found on construction projects.

A COLLABORATION OF PEOPLE AND BIM TOOLS

We anticapte as many as 30 teams forming on six continents and over a thousand participants. As a live event it will showcase how cutting edge tools in the hands of insustry experts can transform collaboration on multi-stakeholder projects.

TAKING PART IN A 48 HOUR EVENT

Allows time for both early stage design and for more detailed design
Gives flexibility in timing of peoples involvement around the world
BUILD LONDON LIVE will give "Seeing is Believing" the time and space it needs to truly demonstrate what is now possible
It will boost the profile of the participating organisations and put them in touch with a network of active users
It will boost the profile of collaborative BIM in general, and give impetus to all those taking part to show their developing skills and capability

WHAT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN?

At midday on Tuesday 15th June, a specially chosen and internationally recognisable site in Thames Gateway don will be announced, along with a brief for a significant multi-use development.

All the key information will be published in interoperable IFC formatsas well as in the proprietry BIM formats. Teams will be free to exploit any interoperable technology and to add updates to a public web-site. All visitors to the web-site will be free to comment. Build London Live will attempt to explore many scenarios, working practices and the use of BIM technologies:

Real time cost and area/program calculation linked to 2D and 3D models
Using web enabled tools to allow for multiple users to collaborate in real time

Massive real-time collaboration

A series of rapid-fire live charrettes or "BIMStorm™ to design the project at warp speed

Making sustainable decisions in real-time

Identify potential errors faster

Using collaborative open standards based exchanges of information and BIM
Make the process transparent and available to be watched and participated on-line

Pushing BIM and collaborative tools to their limits: Asite, Adobe PDF, ArchiCAD, Autodesk ADT, AutoCAD Architecture 2008, ALLPLAN, Cadwork, Calcus, City GML, Data Design System (DDS), Digital Projects, dRofus, EliteCAD, IFC2SKP, IFC, Knowledge, Google Docs, Google Earth, Go To Meeting, Google SketchUp, IFC Engine Viewer, InfoCAD, Bentley MicroStation, Triforma, Architecture & Structural, MagiCAD, MS Excel, MS Word, NavisWorks, NIST CIS/2 to IFC Translator, Octaga, Onuma Planning System (OPS), ONUMA BIMXML Converter, paper, PDA, pencil, Revit Architecture & Structure, Riuska, RYHTI FM, Skype, Solibri Model Checker, StruSoft, Tekla Structures, Vectorworks, Vico Software Constructor, Webex, OGC WFS, 3G cell phone etc.
Demonstrating a new way of working

In a traditional design and construction process, a developer must find an appropriate property and define a program for a project. They must then run through multiple scenarios of what to build to support the changing market and their bottom line. At the same time they may need to negotiate with city agencies and stakeholders, and broker for the various properties they are reviewing. They may bring on an architect at an early stage of development to study several scenarios and create an early plan. All of the above activities and many more are dependent of each other.

In a traditional process much of the early planning and design and is linear and disconnected. The architect prepares early plans and documents and submits them to the developer after a few weeks. By that time the requirements may have changed. There is a constant back and forth between experts, engineers, cost estimators, local authorities and stakeholders to review and approve the next step or in many cases to backtrack and redo work. This is just for the early design process.

The BIMSTORM method

Collaborative working and new tools allows the experts to collaborate in decision making in real time which helps to spot problems and identify patterns and trends as the project progresses. Corrections or philosophy revisions can be undertaken immediately. Experts can be brought in to view the project data and give advice as the design evolves.

Standard office tools

There is no need to be an expert with any software in order to participate. For example cost estimates and area calculations can be viewed in real time on the web or exported out to Excel. The numbers in the reports and Excel file are directly linked to the 3D models so there is no need to manually confirm that everything in sync because it is in sync by design.