BIM expert John Adams, director and head of BIM services at Darlington-based BIM Strategy, recently visited our Teesside offices to learn more about Opentree’s Cabinet. Adams, a qualified architect, has long experience at the cutting edge of building information modelling. He spent nearly five years at Gateshead Council working in its CAD and BIM working […]
International architectural practice, Purcell, opts for Opentree to help manage BIM workflows. Purcell, a 275-strong UK architectural, masterplanning and heritage design consultancy, has selected the Cabinet electronic document management platform developed by Opentree as a basis for its building information management, BIM-driven design processes. One of the UK’s leading heritage sector architects, Purcell has ten […]
In February 2018, Midlands-based but UK-wide NM Group selected Opentree’s Cabinet engineering document platform. In this guest blog post, head of digital transformation Gary Ross explains why NM Group chose Cabinet. I have long been frustrated by the time and costs associated with the administration of design files in AutoCAD and Revit. I look at simple tasks […]
Since 2011 many UK construction industry businesses have been working towards higher levels of BIM competence and BIM compliance, and we have been helping several with that process. Some people’s initial perceptions of BIM focus on choosing and using BIM software tools rather than thinking of BIM as a collaborative process supported by technology. BIM […]
As previously mentioned, Opentree exhibited at BIMShowLive in Newcastle over two days at the end of February and beginning of March. Topically, our fellow exhibitors included Viewpoint, one of the UK’s leading providers of common data environments (CDEs), and industry IT publication AEC Magazine. Viewpoint was mentioned in the January/February 2018 issue of the magazine […]
Nottinghamshire-based NM Group works with Opentree to demonstrate its compliance with UK building information modelling requirements. The 1500-strong NM Group, headquartered in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, has selected the Cabinet engineering document platform developed by Teesside-based Opentree as a basis for its building information management (BIM) processes. With annual revenues of £250m, NM Group provides design, build, […]
Opentree will be exhibiting its BIM-ready Cabinet solution at BIMShowLive 2018 at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 28 February-1 March. The event features a host of keynotes, panels, and interactive seminar sessions from BIM and digital construction experts from across the globe, looking at everything from artificial intelligence to predictive data. The event is organised […]
Cabinet is primarily an internal back-office platform helping organisations manage their office documentation and design information before any gets shared with external collaborators. We, therefore, don’t see it as competing with ‘common data environment’ (CDE) systems. Instead, we see Cabinet as complementary to CDEs – which is why we are investing in integrating our platform […]
Daniel and I were at Digital Construction Week 2017 at the ExCEL exhibition centre in east London last month. We quickly found ourselves enjoying some busy networking amid the widespread “BIM Buzz” there was around the event – BIM being one of the six key trends upon which DCW focused. This was the third edition […]
In construction design processes, “Work in progress” (sometimes abbreviated to WIP) relates to design work which has yet to be completed, checked, approved and released to other parties on a project. Typically, it is design work that is undertaken within a single organisation or discipline. In the 2D world, the status of a CAD drawing was […]
