Everything You Always Wanted to Know About BIM But Had No One to Ask

Originally published in 2015. References to events, registration, prices and professional profiles in this part of the post belong to that period. EBBIM, Empresa Brasileira de BIM, was known as TI Lab at that time.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the process of creating and managing the physical and functional characteristics of a project using digital representation systems.

The digital construction model resulting from this process becomes the reference for making all decisions throughout its life cycle—starting with its conception, and going through design, construction, maintenance, and eventual demolition.

Our talks count as complementary activities in undergraduate architecture, engineering, and design courses.

Duration: 1 hour

Target audience: professionals and Architecture students from 1st year onward

João Gaspar – Architect graduated from FAU-USP in 1999, gives numerous talks on BIM, technology, and the use of computing for architecture, engineering, and design. He has more than 14 years of experience in teaching, research, and the creation of educational material, heading EBBIM (a training center specialized in BIM) and ProBooks Editora, both headquartered in São Paulo.

EBBIM offered more than 20 at the time training courses, among which the Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Rhino, and SketchUp courses stand out.

ProBooks is a publishing house that was born out of the production of educational content for EBBIM's courses. Our focus is editing and publishing content related to technology and digital design for architecture and design. ProBooks Editora's portfolio includes, among others, the books ArchiCAD passo a passo, Vectorworks passo a passo, and SketchUp Pro 2013 passo a passo; the latter has been translated into English and Spanish.

Would you like to deepen your knowledge of interoperability and information in BIM models? Explore EBBIM’s Curso IFC – dos fundamentos à gestão de projetos e obras. The training covers IFC import and export, properties, classification and data extraction for projects and construction, complementing the topic of this post.