BIM Notebooks - 2017

by Chiara C. Rizzarda

The notebook you are holding in your hands is the annual collection of articles around Building Information Modelling (BIM), written by Chiara C. Rizzarda and published on her blog shelidon.it.This publication has the two-fold aim to provide more practical support for the consultation to those who flicker through the blog regularly, both in digital and physical format, but is also driven by a charitable purpose.According to the World Health Organization, 1 out of three women has been the target of some severe form of violence during her life.As it has been denounced by almost thirty years by anti-violence centres throughout Italy and Europe, violence against women occurs throughout all society, involving men and women of all ages, social background, level of education and/or employment.Cerchi d'Acqua (Circles in the Water) is an anti-violence centre born in 2000 in Milan, Italy. It is active in counteracting gender violence as a they organize campaigns and other actions of awareness-raising and information, intending to trigger a social and cultural change, and they offer free assistance to women for them to transition out of violence predicaments and for them to cope with trauma. In over twenty years of activity, it has welcome over 12.000 women in need.Cerchi d'Acqua works driven by the assumption that every woman has in herself the strength she needs to get out of the distress triggered by violence and that she can do that with the help of other women. They offer shelter and free spaces where she can deal with trauma, guaranteeing anonymity, confidentiality and a judgment-free environment.They also offer aid to family, friends, new partners, so that they can offer positive support to women that are coping with this kind of trauma and they can themselves deal with the indirect distress.All proceeds will be donated to Cerchi d'Acqua, to support them in their extraordinary work.In this volume, collecting all English articles from 2017, you'll find some notes on PAS 1192-2, chronicles from the very first MasterKeen at the AM4 Training Centre, the rising usage of game engines in the AEC industry, an evergreen on Specifications and Classification systems for BIM, notes on the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method, pages from Autodesk University and BILT Singapore, the Evenf Formerly Known as the Revit Technology Conference.On the software side of things, you'll find mentions of Project Fractal, Dynamo, a bunch of articles on the Unreal Engine in architecture and, of course, Revit.

128 pages, Paperback

Published January 7, 2020