FIATECH

The FIATECH Streamlining Project is pleased to report a major success in its 2008-09 initiative to develop model regulations that state and local governments can adopt to conduct a single plan review for replicable buildings; buildings, like those of “big box stores,” hotel chains, homebuilders and even Habitat for Humanity that are repetitively built across the nation with little to no variation in their structure, components or configuration.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Austin, TX, October 15, 2009--Software providers demonstrated successful exchange of intelligent engineering data between their systems using ISO 15926 dictionary compliant XML exchange files.

As part of our ongoing effort to provide cutting-edge intelligence on Interoperability and BIM to the industry, McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics has just released the third in its ongoing series of BIM-themed reports, entitled The Business Value of BIM: Getting Building Information Modeling to the Bottom Line.

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The REEB Project is an FP7 Coordination Action led by CSTB in France and developed in collaboration with VTT, CEA, LABEIN Tecnalia, ACCIONA, ARUP, UC Cork and TU Dresden, among the most relevant European organizations in relation with ICT and Energy Efficiency in Buildings.