News - 2011

Collaborative Building Information Modeling with Asite cBIM™

13th September 2011

As part of our continued promise to support the Architecture, Engineering and Construction sector in utilizing cloud technology so businesses can share and coordinate information with their partners, customers, and suppliers in a secure environment in the cloud, we are pleased to announce the upcoming beta release of the next generation of Asite cBIM™. cBIM integrates the BIM coordination workflow with sourcing, construction management, and procurement processes within one single easy-to-use platform for delivering collaborative applications via the web and mobile devices.

cBIM will enable you to:

• Selectively share your project model or individual BIM worksets with project partners
• Create a clear audit trail by tracking version control and updates to the model 
• Merge multiple model files and worksets from different project partners and different design tools into one central model
• View the differences between model file revisions
• Collaboratively review, interact and mark up model files in the integrated 3D viewer
• Associate model views, component schedules (lists), and mark-ups with workflows and track actions across your team 
• Tightly integrate your project document control and construction management system with your BIM coordination process
• Automatically generate reports such as Bills of Quantities (BOQ) from the model on a scheduled basis
• Truly connect the commercial aspects of your project to the design itself

The benefits of cBIM:

• Bring visibility and control to shared Building Information Models helping deliver the true potential of BIM and Integrated Project Delivery 
• A truly interoperable and collaborative approach to modelling and model management makes it easier to work with distributed teams and disparate systems
• Eliminates errors from designing in isolation by viewing your design in the context of the overall model
• Reduces the risk of on-site problems with early clash detection – both of physical clashes and specification clashes 
• Immediately review how the design has progressed during development and track critical decision making
• Centralise storage of all versions of your models in a collaborative online environment
• View and walk through the overall project model and access the rich data contained in the project model without expensive software 
• Stores and integrates model files from leading BIM design tools in the market 

“Asite has delivered on my Rethinking Construction vision with the release of cBIM."
Sir John Egan, author of Rethinking Construction

For more information about cBIM, contact us here or meet us at ICE-BIM in London or Ecobuild America in Washington D.C. to discuss this in person with a member of the Asite team. 

You can also follow us on Twitter @asite to receive up-to-date information before the launch.

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