BIM and GIS Integration Workshop for AECs

[ErikaBocian]

Hi AECs. I am part of the Esri Professional Services team that is supporting the AEC industry. We are finalizing a new offering - a 2 day BIM and GIS Integration Workshop. Integrating BIM and GIS has been quite a hot topic for quite a while now in the industry but for some, it's been hard to know where to start. The thought behind creating the workshop is to make the integration more real. We wanted to give our customers an understanding of what is available for them right now to help them drive their integration workflows in practical ways.

This workshop is different than a traditional Esri training offering in that it is a consulting engagement that will be delivered to a group of people within an organization. The first part is an overview of the technologies. It is delivered in a presentation format and is an introduction to BIM and GIS integration providing an overview of the business, integration patterns, and technologies. The second part of the workshop is hands-on training, working with BIM and GIS data, Autodesk and Esri software via remote desktops that will be set up for the purposes of this workshop. We will set aside time for Q+A and discussions about roadblocks our attendees see in their workflows.

Our target audience is practice leads and project managers responsible for the successful delivery of AEC projects and services, architects, engineers, landscape architects, other designers, and GIS professionals who use BIM and GIS technologies to support AEC projects.

Would an offering like this be useful for your organization? Would you like us to cover a specific integration topic in this workshop?  You can contact me if you have any questions or use our AEC consulting email address: AEC_Consulting@esri.com

[Rushdie_Tazeroualti]

Hello,

I hope you are well.

I am working for esri Belgium and I think that what is missing is a overview of typical applications by user type.

An engineer would be interested in calculating slopes from models, create digital terrain model, …

An architect would be more interested in assessing different location scenarios for a design, deliver solar radiation analysis, shadow analysis, sight lines, viewshed analysis,...

This is not an absolute truth because depending on the nature of their activities, engineers and architects could need only some or all of the analysis tools mentioned above.

I am looking for a full list of GIS tools (analysis, visualization and are there others?) likely to be used by AEC actors. I think this is a powerful way to demonstrate the added value of integrating GIS with BIM, knowing that most of AEC stakeholders do not use and know GIS technology.

Your assistance here would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Rushdie