Products & Services
BIM Education Co-opTM members provide custom products and services that increase education productivity.
1) Membership - Membership is free until members decide to start charging. But you can always give Corazon a donation for their technology program that can teach BIM skills on a modest house build - in one day. Do you think what I think about this being the beginning of a beautiful relationship between BIM and affordable housing?
2) "BIG BIM little bim" buy the book that is guiding the Corazon home "BIMification." Finith Jernigan, AIA, uses plain language in one of the first books to simply state a business case for BIM that you can believe will work…because it already has. Read the many case studies, quickly grasp highlighted examples. US $29.95 Team discounts with custom webinar
3) First edition imprints signed by "BIG BIM little bim" author Finith Jernigan, AIA, and forward author Kimon Onuma, AIA are being auctioned to benefit Corazon. US $29.95 plus a US $100 starting bid for 10 books, a US $150 starting bid for 5 books and a US$ 500 starting bid for one book.
4) Custom webinars from BIM Education Co-opTM members demonstrate the business practices described in "BIG BIM little bim" to classes of 10 or more. Contact Co-op members directly, we wish to understand the heart of the relationship to realize significant education productivity.
5) Onuma Essay - Kimon Onuma, AIA wrote a short, insightful essay for "BIG BIM little bim" that will be available to anyone making the effort to give even one penny through an online purchase. If you bother going through an online payment process, you will probably give at least US $10 for the PDF file of Kimon's essay. But we don't care how much you give, we are counting individual transactions to indicate how many people appreciate Kimon's efforts. So we want a big transaction number, not a big donation. But whatever we get, we are going to give it to Corazon.
6) Levels of DetailTM subscription - BIMtipsTM Chicago Comedians tell BIM jokes that stick. A buck a tip - US $52 annual minimum. Text, Audio and Video library options.
7) BIM History Challenge - Read Mike Bordenaro's Introduction to BIM presentation for AIA Chicago's 2007 Annual Conference and take a test that can be submitted as part of the BIM History Self-certification Assistance package. Download the text for free. Purchase a customized 50-minute webinar at a negotiated price per person with a $250 minimum or a self-certification test for US $15 per test.
Corazon Training Sessions - For 25 years, Corazon has built community by building homes. The non-profit organization will now build community by teaching the Corazon BIM Home Build to online teams of 20 or more.
9) You could always just Donate the US $5,800 needed for materials to build a family home in Northern Mexico. Contact www.corazon.org and tell them your BIM Education Co-opTM Member education team leader of choice.
Verify all education product and service orders at (773) 252 5888 or mbordenaro@cs.com