BIMarabia first issue

Introduction

BIMarabia is the first E-magazine intended to spread awareness of BIM tools and workflows across Arabic region. BIMarabia is written and edited by users, targeted to be beneficial to practitioners and researchers in the field. For more information, please go to
http://bimarabia.com

This is an English version of BIMarabia magazine, which is specialized in Building Information Modeling (BIM). We found that the construction industry need it. When we published the Arabic version, many readers ask us to translate it to English. Or any other language, Thus, we decided to translate it to English language.
If anyone wants to translate it to any other language or to join our team, please don’t hesitate to contact us :

[email protected]

Finally, i apologize for any mistakes, and thanks for Wonderful BIMarabia team, I’m honor to be one of them.

Editor
Omar Selim

download it from here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-NxSgLL8AgiSnRabkRRNlZodFE/view?usp=sharing

Contents

INTERVIEW WITH BIM  4
BIM between the acceptance & rejection  8
Interview with Dr. Bilal Succar   11
BIM implementation in infrastructure projects  14
BIM Execution Plan   17
Fourth dimension of BIM  21
Open source solutions available for parametric design  25
Quotes about BIM  31
BIM and Eighth Dimension  33
Contracts issues for BIM  35
Design technology  41
Case study  46