by Brianna Crandall — September 7, 2012—ARCHIBUS, developer of solutions for real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management globally, has just announced that its affiliated ARCHIBUS Solution Center-China-Chengdu has been chosen after a highly competitive selection process by the China Ministry of Housing and Urban/Rural Development as a research partner for the implementation throughout China of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) standards for building lifecycle management.
ASC-China-Chengdu will work jointly with China software company PlantSoft Beijing, an engineering and technology company providing computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) products and services, to advance the ministry’s National BIM Standards program (NBIMS-CHN). The program focuses on refining and implementing BIM standards that follow best practices and produce greater cost-efficiency in the areas of space management, building operations, and asset management.
The NBIMS-CHN program has been widely recognized as one of most significant milestones in the architecture, engineering and construction (A/E/C) industry in China through its promotion of BIM to standardize and consolidate all A/E/C and building operations and asset information into a single database.
The NBIMS-CHN program emphasizes four stages of the building lifecycle: planning, design, construction, and operation. The program covers the establishment of BIM standards and best practices, technology development, deployment/implementation methodology, and project planning and lifecycle management. These activities are important in supporting the internationally recognized building information interoperability standards, such as Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie), as well as required workflows, and a range of other BIM application software, such as ARCHIBUS, and future BIM technology development plans in China.
Boston-based ARCHIBUS was listed in the Software Magazine 500 as a Top 50 Company, and is reportedly the second-largest privately held software and services company in the world. According to the company, more than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS users collectively manage over 15,000,000 buildings and properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34 percent. Through effective innovation and business transformation, ARCHIBUS users reportedly save their organizations over $100 billion annually.
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