BIM education

There are various educational license programs for BIM authorizing softwares. These programs are useful for universities, colleges, schools and other educational organizations.

Tekla educational license program

Tekla's exclusive building information modelling (BIM) program will focus on the significance of collaboration and the advantages of allocating project data correctly at the beginning of a project lifecycle.

Every student will learn each stage of a design project ranging from conceptual design all the way through to erection and construction planning. The student will also get an insight on the value of a constructable 3D building information model.  

Tekla’s educational license program is available at very nominal charges and utilized by major educational institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology, Helsinki University of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Wolverhampton University, Stanford University, and many more across the global.

Subscribers to this program will get both Tekla Structures license and Tekla software maintenance agreement.

The educational license program includes

Tekla Structures software

Annual license subscription

Annual software maintenance agreement

New version updates

Interactive training material

Use of Tekla Extranet

Support from experienced industry specialists

A guaranteed future in the construction industry

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http://www.pacificcomputing.com/training_educational_license_program.html

Solibri License program

Solibri Inc, a leading company in providing software for checking & analysis of BIM model and model based design. Solibri provides licensing of some high tech softwares.

Solibri Model Checker

Solibri Model Checker facilitates users to provide rule based analysis of the quality of BIM files and designs. It maintains visualization of the building and walks around the result of the model checking. The users can avail several license program which are described below :-.

Workstation License

Floating License (Given number of concurrent users)

Educational License (Lower price floating license)

Training License (Short period floating license)

Trial License (Short period evaluation license)

Solibri Model Viewer

This version is useful for project managers, construction work supervisors, and management to visualize the building and search the outcome of the model checking.

Free License

Solibri IFC Optimizer

It is utilized to optimize IFC files.

Free License

Solibri Issue Locator

It is a complementary product facilitating CAD user to get the issue list directly in the CAD tool.

Workstation License

Professional

Graphisoft offers several licensing program for ArchiCAD           , a BIM based 3D architectural design software for architects and interior designers.

ArchiCAD software can be obtained all through the world for Professionals, Students, Teachers and Schools in the following localized versions:

English (International), US, Australian, New Zealand, German, Swiss, Austrian, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Finnish, Czech, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Korean.  

ArchiCAD for Professionals

A 30-day Trial Version of ArchiCAD alongwith BIM Experience Kit is available for download.

The prospective buyer can contact with near his locality to purchase a license and go on with applying the software exclusive of any further installation:

Africa / Middle East

Asia / Pacific

Europe

Latin America

North America

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Student
ArchiCAD Education version

Architecture and design students can avail the fully functional education version of ArchiCAD for free. They can download the 30-day version and request for full year extensions before their study get completed.

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Teacher
ArchiCAD Education version

Teachers engaged with architecture schools and educational establishments can get a fully functional education version of ArchiCAD along with a total BIM Curriculum. Download the 30-day version and request for yearly extension.

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School
ArchiCAD Academic version

Architectural schools and educational organizations are allowed to provide their computer labs with the free academic version of ArchiCAD. The network installation option is useful for organizing ArchiCAD to several computers in a quick and user friendly way

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ArchiCAD Trial version

The fully functional 30-day trial version of ArchiCAD offers straightforward pathway to experience the premier BIM design tool for architects. Download a whole series of interactive training guides for an effortless learning experience.

GRAPHISOFT also arrange an unique certification program facilitating users to determine their Archicad knowledge against a global standard and expand their skills & get better chances of finding ArchiCAD jobs all over the world.

Autodesk Education Community

Autodesk has an unique education community. There are more than 3 million members all over the world. One can freely download 35 software products with a 36-month license. This education community is very useful for architects, engineers and digital artists. One can also have the training materials to get the product knowledge useful for designing, visualization and simulation.     

Join the Education Community Now

2013 product lists containing 3 years licensing available for free download

AutoCAD® AutoCAD® for Mac® AutoCAD® Civil 3D® AutoCAD® Electrical Autodesk® Alias® Design Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis Autodesk® Inventor® Professional Autodesk® Maya®  Autodesk® Mudbox™

Autodesk® Revit® Architecture  Autodesk® Revit® MEP  Autodesk® Revit® Structure Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow® Adviser Ultimate Autodesk® Simulation Multiphysics  Autodesk® SketchBook® Designer  Autodesk® Smoke® Autodesk® Softimage® Autodesk® 3ds Max®

Advantages for Students and Educators

The students will be greatly benefitted by knowing latest industry trends with Digital Prototyping, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC), and sustainable design Information Modeling (BIM), Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC), and sustainable design.

AGC BIM education program

Associated general contractors of America (AGC) also arrange for a certificate program known as Certificate of Management-Building Information Modeling (CM-BIM). It is an assessment-based certificate credential that stands for knowledge and understanding of concepts concerning BIM adoption, practice and process transformation.

CM-BIM candidates have to complete the four AGC BIM Education Program courses. They have to give AGC with record to completion and approved application beforehand of exam administration. The willing candidates can easily access the CM-BIM application online.

Exam Information: The CM-BIM Candidate Guide covers brief information essential for making preparation for the CM-BIM exam.

Fees: All fees total $550 (break up as $100 application and technology fee and $450 exam fee)   will be charged one time after the application is being scrutinized and approved.

Testing Centers: At present there are twelve approved testing centers:

·         AGC of DC

·         Nebraska Building Chapter AGC

·         San Antonio AGC

·         AGC of Wisconsin

·         AGC of St. Louis

·         Houston Chapter AGC

·         AGC of Michigan

·         Maryland AGC

·         MBA of Western PA

·         AGC Florida East Coast Chapter

·         Construction Employers Association- Cleveland Branch

Builders Association (Chicago, IL)




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Building Information Modelling Standard

A complete consensus open BIM standard should be developed for every construction projects to discuss, organize, share, reuse and apply digital information between AEC and owner / operator competently throughout the life of the facility from the commencement of a project through to the decommissioning of a structure. This digital information can be characterized in contract language.

The BIM standard can be useful to enhance the efficiency virtually of commercial and public activity that includes planning, design, construction, management, renovation, repurposing, decommissioning and final demolition of facility.

With the execution of this Standard, information interoperability and reliability will develop considerably.

The BIM standard facilitates project stakeholders to make a huge savings in money and superior quality of life for facility.   

The BIM standard also comprises of technical standards work. In order to ensure interoperability, the encoding schemas, software service interfaces, application programming interfaces (APIs) should be settled mutually.

There are various types of BIM standard available in the market among them major are - The National Building Information Model Standard™ (NBIMS), The National CAD Standard (NCS), The American Institute of Architects (AIA) standard, Precast Concrete National BIM standard, sponsored by the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) etc. There are also some other standards like Standards of the National Institute for Building Sciences, ISO standards, Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate (OSCRE) standards, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, The FIATECH capital investment roadmap, CSI OmniClass taxonomies, COBIE (Construction to Operations Building Information Exchange), etc.

NCS

The NCS (National Cad Standard) is a product from the cooperation of the AIA, CSI, and NIBS serving CAD community through the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) NCS Project Committee to discover, recognize, preserve and share information in every set of drawings at every phase of the project.

NCS is a language widely approved by more than 5,000 workplaces across the country and overseas as the "language" of design data. 

Today's NCS is seamlessly integrated with building information modeling (BIM) and is available in an online, easily searchable format.

NCS involves a mechanism to modify the constituent documents to fulfill the requirements of the broadest probable range of users.

NCS consists of the NIBS' Foreword, Administration Guidelines, AIA CAD Layer Guidelines, and the CSI Uniform Drawing System, DWG files of the Uniform Drawing System symbols, Microsoft Excel files of the AIA CAD Layer Guidelines, Uniform Drawing System terms and abbreviations, schedules and regulatory information, and tables of the plotting guidelines, appendices including the Statement of Conformance, Optional and Recommended Items, Rules of Governance, and Implementation Guidelines etc.

NCS provides a common understandable standard containing common terms, symbology, and naming conventions across the board. Information is accumulated in the same place in all drawing sets consequently translation among formats can be predicted easily. Time required for file formatting and error checking is minimized to a great extent.

NBIMS

The National Building Information Model Standard™ (NBIMS) set up standard definitions for building information exchanges to maintain significant business frameworks with standard semantics and ontologies. The standard works in tandem with software to create the basis for the accurate and well-organized communication and business necessary for the building industry and industry transformations.  The Standard allows all participants in facilities-related progressions to gain more consistent results from commercial agreements. 

National BIM Standard is valid to all global countries and almost common in nature. There may be some marginal changes to make the standard country specific.

The first consensus version of National BIM Standard-United States (NBIMS-US) Version 2 is awaiting for arrival soon. The new standard will focus more on the Reference Standards, Information Exchange Standards and Practice Standards.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA)

The American Institute of Architects has characterized BIM as "a model-based technology linked with a database of project information”. This reveals the general dependence on database technology as the basis.

AIA developed “The Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit Document E202” which is a useful document compatible with Building Information Model (BIM) technology addressing the BIM standards for forming and sharing BIM model. The standard is also vital for model requirement and model management.

The AIA standard is a helpful resource to generate valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings with better design.

Precast Concrete National BIM standard

Precast Concrete National BIM standard is developed through a committee of the Precast/Pre-stressed Concrete Institute (PCI) and the Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) to maintain the significant information exchanges surrounding for precast concrete.

The standard contains a complete Information Delivery manual (IDM) provides  industry-wide exchanges regarding precast pieces like stemmed deck members, flat deck members, beams, columns, load bearing walls and spandrels, piles, and architectural facades and others are all through the product lifecycle. Numerous business cases are recognized involving design-bid-build, design-build and precast as lead contractor modes of project delivery. The lifecycle phases contains architectural design and construction modeling, structural engineering of precast, fabrication level detailing and manufacture planning as well as logistics and erection.

The standard also deals with a variety of contract delivery methods in diverse up-front workflows. The exchanges are connecting different actors in the procedure together with architects, structural engineers, precast engineers/detailers, general contractors/construction managers, precast plant managers and erectors.

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BIM for steel & precast concrete erection

BIM based 3D model provides exact visual representation of the steel sequencing & erection process. A 3D model spatially represents 3 dimensional data which can be utilized to highlights and updates all discussions around erection. The structural engineers will be able to “zoom in” on several structural elements within the model.

  

BIM effectively creates coordination between the fabricated steel and the other building components to minimize the on-site problems and cut down the increasing cost of steel erection.

BIM facilitates structural engineers to observe the status of each of the steel pieces in the supply chain resulting better management of the erection portion of the project as well as just-in-time fabrication, save substantial amounts of time off of erection schedules.

 

A BIM model can be utilized to generate 2D shop fabrication & jobsite erection drawings containing accurate qty's, piece marks and dimensional placement. The model can also be applied to coordinate field layout points detained on the actual jobsite matched up to what was detailed and designed in the model.

A data and information enriched BIM model also produces material lists (ABM), piece counts, CNC files to surpass to the shop to be applied for digital fabrication & erection.

BIM is utilized as a 3D reference and communication tool to better represent and demonstrate design and RFI issues during the fabrication and erection stages of the project.

BIM provides added value to the construction procedures by ensuring that the exact precast elements are delivered and erected on time during the detailing, fabrication and erection phases. A BIM model can also avoid expensive erection delays.

BIM supervise development of detailing, fabrication & erection and also plan for erection coordination and planning to make sure that equipment and fabrication deliveries appear in the right sequence.   

A BIM model plays a vital role to verify probable errors within a plant design before the commencing of fabrication and erection phases. Any comments can be put directly to the 3D model to underscore and expose problem areas.   

BIM presents information in a graphical view ensuring fastest communication among team members and better understanding of overall project status.

BIM provides erection-synchronized steel delivery by assessing and developing atypical connections, observing where and how special load conditions are supported in a superior way, wherever a visual architectural objective is accomplished applying less metal and labor.    


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