We’re about to kick off this year’s CE News webcast series. The first webcast features and interview with David Kasha of Stantec.
Create with Vision: BIM for Infrastructure on the South Fraser Perimeter Road Project
Thursday, May 31, 2012, 2:00 PM ET/1:00 PM CT/11:00 AM PT
Join us in a conversation with technology manager David Kasha of Stantec and learn how their organization implemented BIM on a large infrastructure project, the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) project, a Public Private Partnership funded project near Vancouver, B.C. ⇒ Click here to register today!
When Dave and I were planning the interview, he said something that made a lot of sense. He was talking about how Civil 3D training and knowledge are important for users, but it was most important to win their hearts and minds. If engineers, surveyors and designers don’t see the value in changing the way they work, it will be a difficult battle.
I’m out of the office this week for a bit of a family reunion at the beach, so I picked up a book called The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business to read when I am not preparing three meals a day for fifteen people. The more I get into the book, the more that Dave’s “hearts and minds” idea makes sense. Even when we want to make a change, our brains can be working against us. No matter how much good change will do, the old habits feed our cravings.
If I can break my habit of not finishing books, maybe I can come up with some interesting insight into BIM adoption for Infrastructure.
One thing that I can do right now is work on breaking my habit of working while I am theoretically on vacation. Someone said to me yesterday that I was on the wrong side of this glass door. You know what? They were right. See you Monday….
You can learn more from David Kasha and David deJong of Stantec and their involvement with the South Fraser Perimeter Road project in their recorded class from Autodesk Unversity 2011. South Fraser Perimeter Road: A $1 Billion Transportation Project in AutoCAD® Civil 3D®



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