It is important to ensure that the upcoming National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) benefits many people and not just a few, Kimon Onuma, president of Onuma Inc. and a participant of the team developing the new standard, told CPC/BIM. Onuma said he is uncertain how much time his company will invest in helping to develop NBIMS, "but we definitely will be reviewing it. We're going to be giving input. There have been discussions recently about the connection between the CAD standards and the BIM standards that interest us a lot. If anything, we're focusing on the simple aspect of BIM because there [are] sexy models that are very dense and detailed, and they look great on paper, and they present well, and they're very valuable, but there's a lot of value even in the simple models, so in order to get the industry going, we feel we have to get into the shallow end of the pool and get more people involved versus making it extremely complex [whereby] only a few people can do it. You can't have this kind of exclusivity that only certain people can do BIM. It has to be BIM for everybody." The next version of NBIMS is expected to be released in the third quarter.

In this edition of CPC/BIM, there is other BIM news to report, including a new document on MEP spatial coordination requirements for BIM as well as new developments involving InPro Corp., Lochinvar, and Ameri-Cad. Also in this edition, John Jurewicz probes three-dimensional printing, Doug Findley asserts that contractors often fail to realize their projects' true critical path, and Gordon Aronson examines the Enterprise Project Structure.