eCollaboration Today and Tomorrow Building Information Modeling: Opportunities, Challenges, Processes, Deployment New Year, New Company, Newforma, New View of BIM Today's Top-Level Take-Away—Innovation > Economist John Maynard Keynes, considering the resistance to new economic theories, observed: > "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." > Or, in the words of science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein: > "The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche." eCollaboration Today and Tomorrow A LaiserinLive™ event hosted online by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Tuesday, January 25, 2005 from Noon to 1:00pm Eastern Time (USA). In this interactive web seminar, or webinar, Jerry Laiserin provides an in-depth look at the evolving capabilities and future potential of this rapidly maturing technology—essential knowledge for owners, constructors and designers of infrastructure and buildings. Full webinar brochure and registration info (PDF). Building Information Modeling: Opportunities, Challenges, Processes, Deployment A LaiserinLive™ event April 19-20, 2005 at Georgia Tech's Global Learning and Conference Center in Atlanta. The Georgia Tech College of Architecture Ph.D. program, directed by Charles Eastman, and the LaiserinLetter, edited by Jerry Laiserin, jointly present a conference to address the important technological, organizational, and procedural issues surrounding adoption of multidimensional, data-rich models and other digital technologies for project design, documentation and delivery. The conference will provide extensive background on the relevant technologies, demonstrations and assessment of existing products, review of integrating and supportive technologies, and methods of assessment and planning for using building information modeling in a project or office. Contact Mrs. Mercedes Saghini or phone +1 404 894 3476 New Year, New Company, Newforma, New View of BIM Several of the AECO software industry's best and brightest—and most experienced—players have formed a new company called Newforma. Defining itself as "a software development company serving architecture, engineering, construction, and owner-operator (AECO) organizations worldwide," Newforma states its vision as facilitating "the seamless flow of information between every AECO role in support of both project and business processes." Newforma's mission is "to work with AECO organizations to define the key areas where improvements in interoperability will provide the most dramatic benefits to the project lifecycle." Because the collective vitae of Newforma's management team spans such AECO heavyweights as Autodesk, Citadon, Marinsoft and Softdesk, the company clearly has the human and intellectual capital to deliver on its vision and mission. Their latest insights are contained in a white paper, "Building Information Modeling Two Years Later—Huge Potential, Some Success and Several Limitations," available exclusively here at The LaiserinLetter™. Go to the BIM page for the Newforma white paper