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EDITOR'S NOTES
In George Orwell’s novel 1984, the government’s Thought Police, more commonly called Big Brother, maintained an all-seeing eye. Citizens were monitored around the clock to ensure conformity of thought. While totalitarian oversight, whether in government or on a jobsite, is decisively oppressive, a contractor wants to keep a finger on the pulse of the project to ensure optimal project performance and delivery. By adding a fourth dimension, time, to building information modeling, a contractor can essentially look into the future and predict the status of the project at any point during the construction process. This month’s BIM feature by John Jurewicz explains the advantages of 4D visualization and schedule-linked modeling. In his monthly project controls column, Larry True touts the cost control benefits of BIM. And, Gordon Aronson offers a friendly warning to schedulers intent on lumping multiple trade tasks into single scheduling activities. Announcements of two new visualization tools and a bevy of BIM-related awards wrap up this issue of Construction Project Controls & BIM Report.
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PMICOS 2008
By Paul Levin
Publisher Paul Levin offers a brief recap of the recent PMICOS annual meeting held in Chicago, along with a look at two visualization tools released by software developers Cascad-e and PMA Technologies.
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