After two years impacted by the COVID situation, the BIM World Fair came back to its usual format, welcoming French and international visitors on 5 and 6 April 2022 in Paris, at Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles.
This was a great opportunity for BIM4Ren to be in the spotlight and present the developments and results obtained in the 4 years of the project to a wide audience of practitioners and local authorities, engaging in discussion on the use of BIM and digital technology in construction and urban development.BIM4Ren had a dedicated stand during the event, where Pierre Bourreau, Antoine Dugué both from NOBATEK/INEF4 and Philippe Alamy from EnerBIM interacted and demonstrated B4R tools and findings with the stakeholders attending the fair.
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Also our project partner Wisebim participated in the BIM World fair withs its own stand, showcasing BIM4Ren through live demonstrations of the Plans2BIM tool.
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In addition, a public workshop “BIM4REN: a tool at the service of renovation” was held on 6 April at 9.30 A.M., with approximately 30 participants, which was the perfect occasion to demonstrate some of the tools developed by the project, namely:
- Plans2BIM, developed by Wisebim and demonstrated by Frédéric Suard, a tool that digitalizes existing assets in BIM within seconds, generating BIM models and quantity takeoffs from existing 2D plans.
- LODlifter, developed by CSTB and demonstrated by Bruno Fiés, a 3D software application that can enrich IFC models with properties relevant for energy renovation, involving product catalogues, and accessible from the KROQI platform.
- BIM2BEM developed by EnerBIM and demonstrated by Philippe Alamy, a software that imports a BIM file, identifies potential geometrical errors, fix it, and then exports it as gbXML for building
- Renovation Manager Developed by Nobatek/INEF4 and demonstrated by Pierre Bourreau, a full web tool that assists project managers and engineers in managing renovation projects at early stage considering energy, cost, environmental criteria
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Feel free to explore our website further for more information on input opportunities and the other B4R tools, which will continue to be demonstrated in a series of final events taking place during the final months of our project. Stay tuned!