GRUG 12 April 2013 opening presentation 20130423

2. • Welcome…….Thank you all for attending!
• Please Turn OFF your Mobile phones
• Thank you to Mott MacDonald for providing
the venue for this meeting.
• Housekeeping……. In the event of a fire ….

3. Welcome To GRUG
• Meet with local Revit users to discuss and share the platform's
use for BIM implementation.
• GRUG on Linkedin - Main source of information, events and
discussion
• GRUG on YouTube - GRevitUG
• GRUG on Twitter - @glasgowrevit

4. Meet The Team
• Graham H Stewart
• Technical Associate – Head of BIM – Structures - Ramboll UK
• Colin Hutton
• Architectural Technologist - BIM Consultant – Mott Macdonald
• Allan Brown
• Technical Director – URS

5. Meeting 12 – 23rd April 2013
• 6:20 – 6:30 – Welcome and Introductions
• 6:30 – 7:10 – Adrian Shilliday – Miller Construction
- Scotland Regional BIM Hub
- A Contractors Perspective of Building Information Modelling
• Background to BIM
• Miller Keeping BIM Simple strategy
• Client's requirements
• Contractors requirements - what do we need from the Design team?
• How do we Collaboratively achieve the common goal?
• 7:10 – 7:30 – Break/Networking (Pizza courtesy BIM Tech/Beer courtesy of
GRUG)

6. Adrian Shilliday – Miller Const.
• Adrian is a Senior Design Manager and the Miller Construction BIM Leader. He
is currently developing and integrating their Keeping BIM Simple strategy,
processes, training and software into their management systems and is part of
the UKCG BIM Task Group. He has a wealth of construction industry experience
and understanding having worked for Miller for nearly 6 years where he has
developed Design Management and Sustainable Construction procedures, and
previously as a Project Architect for 6 years at Comprehensive Design Architects
in Edinburgh. Prior to this he worked on CGi modelling using Form-Z and Electric
Image and 12 years ago worked in 3D architectural design using the early
versions of ArchiCAD a small design practice in Belfast.

7. Meeting 12 – 23rd April 2013
• 7:30 - 8:10 – Adam Ward – BIM Technologies
- THE ROLE OF THE INDEPENDENT BIM CONSULTANT/COORDINATOR.
• A look at the role of the Independent BIM coordinator from a
BIM.Technologies perspective.
• We will use live project examples to go through how we create BEPs,
standards and manage the BIM process from start to end, looking at the
tools and workflows at each stage, showing how BIM.Technologies saved
one of our clients over 1million at stage D.
• We will give a firsthand honest 'warts and all' look at how BIG BIM is been
implemented by developers, and contractors on live projects.

8. Adam Ward – BIM Technologies
• Adam’s role at BIM.Technologies is to develop the technologies that help the
construction industry solve complex problems by thinking differently. His role is far
reaching and is currently working as BIM consultant & R&D lead on some of the
UK’s largest projects.
• Before joining BIM.Technologies Adam was a Senor Architectural Technologist at
_spacegroup and a founding director of Bimstore.co.uk which helps integrate the
construction supply chain into the BIM process.
• As a fanatical evangelist of BIM and one of only a handful of Autodesk Certified
Professionals (Revit Architecture 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and Inventor 2013) in the
United Kingdom, Adam has presented BIM and Revit at various industry
usergroups and seminars including Autodesk university. He is one of only a handful
of Autodesk Revit Gunslingers, invited to Autodesk USA to test and give feedback
on future products and ideas.

9. Meeting 12 – 23rd April 2013
• 8:10 – 8:25 – Colin Hutton – Mott McDonalds
Real Time Renderings with Revizto
• 8:25 – 8:30 - Closing remarks
• 8:30 till late –BIMBeers @ The Lab, 26 Springfield Court

10. @BIMDiary
• http://www.bimopedia.com/BIMDiary
• For a full complete list
of all UK, Europe, USA
& Online events,
webinars etc etc
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11. Events Of Interest
• 30th Apl - BIM Show Live 2013
• 10th May – Meet the Experts – Dublin
• 17th June – Crystal Clear BIM
• 19th June – BIM4real
• 11th July - RTCUSA
• 27th Sept - RTCEUR
• 3rd Dec - AU2013

12. Standards
• D-Day has arrived
http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/
http://www.cic.org.uk/

13. Get Involved

14. Possible Topics For Future Meetings
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VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
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Topics for Future Meetings on the GRUG
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15. Lets Get Started!