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• Are you ready for the Digital Switchover? – BIM conference update – September 2011
  NBS teams up with NLA – the centre for London's Built Environment – to host a special BIM conference
• Are you sitting comfortably...? – June 2011
  by James Austin, BIM Leader, _space Group
• BIM: a client/facilities management driven process – August 2011
  by Paul Coates, Architect and BIM Implementation Specialist, University of Salford
• BIM: mapping out the legal issues – February 2012
  by Koko Udom, NBS Contracts & Law Manager
• BIM – measurement and costing – March 2011
  by Dick Barker, Director, Laing O'Rourke, Head of Model Based Measurement and Costing
• BIM – The long view from architectural and design practice – February 2011
  by Robert Klaschka, Principal Director, Studio Klaschka
• BIM... Working without the full picture – February 2012
  by Robert Jackson, Associate, Bond Bryan Architects
• BIM and building properties – March 2010
  an introduction to Building Information Model by NBS Head of Software Development
  Dr Stephen Hamil
• BIM and education – March 2011
  by Prof Steve Lockley, Professor of Building Modelling at Northumbria University
• BIM and the UK Construction Strategy – February 2012
  by David Philp, Head of BIM Implementation, Cabinet Office
• BIM as a mindset – April 2011
  by James Harty, Senior Lecturer at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology
• BIM collaboration and engineering – many heads are better than one – January 2012
  by Hannah George, Associate - ICT & Security, Norman Disney & Young
• BIM from the point of view of a small practice – January 2012
  by David Miller, David Miller Architects
• BIM implementation – HOK buildingSMART – October 2011
  by David Light, BIM Manager, HOK London
• BIM in construction – March 2011
  by Michael Smith, Information Specialist from NBS
• BIM Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work – May 2012
  The BIM Overlay simplifies BIM processes and considers core BIM activities in the guidance for each stage of the plan
• BIM Show Live 2012 – May 2012
  Review of the BIM Show Live 2012 conference
• Building Information Modelling (BIM) – Are you ready for the digital switchover? – October 2011
  Watch video presentations from this special BIM conference
• Building Information Modelling and interoperability – April 2012
  by Dr Stephen Hamil
• Building Information Modelling: the holy grail? – March 2010
  by Sarah Delany, NBS Technical Author
• Building Information Modelling for public procurement – October 2010
  A response from NBS Head of Software Development Dr Stephen Hamil to Paul Morrell's 2010 announcement at the Autodesk Conference
• GetBIM Conference – November 2011
  Dr Stephen Hamil, NBS Head of BIM, contributed to the GetBIM Conference
• Isn't BIM just 3D CAD? – August 2011
  Dr Stephen Hamil explains how BIM is not just 3D CAD and how master specification systems make a huge contribution to the 'I' in BIM
• Launching the NationalBIMLibrary.com – April 2012
  David Light of HOK London interviews Dr Stephen Hamil
• Misunderstanding BIM – May 2012
  by Michael Crowhurst, senior BIM co-ordinator
• NBS at BIM Show Live 2012 – May 2012
  If you're attending the event at the Building Design Centre in London on 9th and 10th May then be sure to come across and see us at our exhibition area.
• NBS National BIM Library launches – April 2012
  Interviews and more from the National BIM Library Ecobuild launch
• NBS National BIM Survey 2012 – February 2012
  NBS's National BIM Survey has been released and reveals the latest BIM adoption figures.
• NBS set to work with BIM Academy – June 2011
  Joint venture between Ryder Architecture and Northumbria University launches
• Point cloud surveys – August 2011
  NBS Head of BIM Dr Stephen Hamil gives his thoughts on generating a BIM using point cloud surveys.
• Putting the 'I' into BIM – March 2011
  Richard Waterhouse, Chief Executive of RIBA Enterprises, introduces the Building Information Modelling Report March 2011
• Ryder Architecture and BIM – August 2011
  by Peter Barker, Architectural Director, Ryder Architecture and Operations Director, BIM Academy
• Standards in construction – April 2011
  by Nick Nisbet Technical Coordinator buildingSMART UK & Ireland
• The Collaboration Engine: BIM and the world after June 22nd 2011 – June 2011
  by Richard Saxon CBE, former RIBA Vice President for Practice and chair of BDP
• The National BIM Library – September 2011
  NBS is pleased to announce the development of the National BIM Library for the UK construction industry
• The rapid acceleration of BIM – February 2011
  an article by Dr Stephen Hamil RIBAE Director of Design and Innovation on the BIM developments seen throughout 2010
• The top 10 BIM questions – April 2011
  by Dr Stephen Hamil, RIBAE Director of Design and Innovation
• What BIM is and how it is being used – January 2011
  Download the presentation Dr Stephen Hamil, RIBAE Director of Design and Innovation, gave to the CIBSE 2011 BIM conference
• What does Building Information Modelling (BIM) mean for specifications? – March 2011
  by Ian Chapman, NBS Head of Specification
• What is COBie? – September 2011
  COBie and the role of CAD and master specification systems in creating this data model
• What will BIM mean for design fees? – March 2012
  NBS Head of BIM, Dr Stephen Hamil, discusses what BIM will mean for design fees
• Why do we need BIM? – April 2011
  by John Lorimer Capital Programme Director Corporate Services, Manchester City Council