INTERVIEW
BIM Creates Sustainable Buildings BIM technology is a vital tool in making buildings green and to tell us more, Frederico Ramos, Aedas Principal in Singapore, shares with us his thoughts on how BIM can be utilized to achieve successful sustainable buildings. Frederico Ramos. Photo: © Aedas
SEAB: How has BIM changed the way Aedas designs and builds its projects? Fred: As a company with a global presence, Aedas benefits from both earlier BIM adopters such as the US, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as more recent players such as Mainland China, Dubai, Vietnam, Philippines, or Malaysia, allowing us to develop an array of bespoke solutions for BIM / VDCO / IDD that address each market and project particular requirements. Our contact with different BIM standards, such as ISO 19650, the UK BIM framework, Singapore BCA BIM guide, US BIM forum LOD and VA Standards, enriched our processes under this wider umbrella that has often proved advantageous to projects and clients. From our initial experiences back in the mid-2000s to today, BIM has played a transformational role in the way we design and build our projects. On its initial stage, BIM allowed a leapfrog in buildings form exploration focusing on buildability and documentation of these new/highly complex forms; with the 2008 economic crisis, BIM focus shifted towards project economics, with more nations mandating BIM and developers demanding for it. While responding to emerging BIM standards, which on its one contributed to increasing models’ quality, our BIM teams started also to incorporate
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Photos 1, 2, 3, 4: Sinarmas Land Headquarters Building in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photos: © Aedas
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