Architecture Software (Archicad BIM)

1. Open BIM supports a transparent, open workflow, allowing project members to participate regardless of the software tools they use. 2. Open BIM creates a common language for widely referenced processes, allowing industry and government to procure projects with transparent commercial engagement, comparable service evaluation and assured data quality. 3. Open BIM provides enduring project data for use throughout the asset life-cycle, avoiding multiple input of the same data and consequential errors. 4. Small and large (platform) software vendors can participate and compete on system independent, 'best of breed' solutions. 5. Open BIM energizes the online product supply side with more exact user demand searches and delivers the product data directly into the BIM .

We are pleased to share with you the first in a series of GRAPHISOFT user case study videos, shot during the Kyoto KCC event earlier this year. This interview was conducted with William Cheung, Director of Hong Kong-based LWK & Partners whose firm is in a transition to BIMcloud and ARCHICAD. In the interview, Mr. Cheung introduces the 600-person architectural office and gives a short insight into their ARCHICAD implementation process. With more than 30 years of experience, LWK & Partners is known as one of the key architects in the high-end residential development found in Hong Kong and China. LWK & Partners is among those architectural practices that have multiple designs among the world’s 100 tallest buildings. The firm was one of the earliest in Hong Kong to convert to BIM more than 10 years ago, but after facing various usability obstacles with the chosen software, they suspended the process for years. Last year, they started their ARCHICAD pilot with the help of GRAPH...