{"id":5331,"date":"2014-09-18T12:13:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2016-12-19T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:52:36","slug":"proposals-sought-for-masonry-bim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionspecifier.com\/proposals-sought-for-masonry-bim\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposals sought for masonry BIM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The International Building Information Modeling for Masonry Initiative (BIM?M) has issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) to lay the groundwork for a best practices guide.<\/span> Photo \u00a9 BigStockPhoto\/Ronald Hudson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The International Building Information Modeling for Masonry Initiative (BIMM) is looking for proposals from architects, engineers, contractors, and other design\/construction consultants for projects involving the creation of models and details of masonry buildings using Autodesk Revit 2014.<\/p>\n

The goal is to include the modeling in an overall plan to develop a Masonry Best Practices Guide<\/em> to provide design professionals with detailed instructions demonstrating how to use Revit to create models that depict masonry in typical scenarios. According to BIM-M, BIM authoring tools are not fully developed for use with masonry; often \u2018work?arounds\u2019 are required to depict masonry properly in models, elevations, and sections. The group is also aware many design practices use BIM to represent masonry only at the most elemental level, and transmit the more detailed information about masonry construction in conventional 2D drawings neither generated nor tied to BIM. However, it expects the proposed guide will contain directions to the profession as to these situations and to how the models might be applied.<\/p>\n

The two projects for this work are:<\/p>\n