LA BIMStorm

Beige 3D massing models of the Corazón home are in the foreground. The modest homes are planned as a hillside community with the LA skyline in color at the far south. The closer, ghost-white buildings are some of the 50 million square feet of buildings placed on Google Earth in one day during the historic LA BIMstorm^TM.

So…What is a BIMstorm?

A BIMstorm^TM is an online brainstorm that allows experts from around the world to share knowledge and information to plan complex projects in a short amount of time.

ONUMA, Inc. has conducted a BIMstorm^TM for many of it's clients. The company has assisted The Netherlands with a national design exercise that greatly benefited from a dramatic, last-minute BIMstorm^TM.

Kimon Onuma, FAIA planned the LA BIMstorm^TM as a demonstration of the surprisingly powerful benefits already available from the many BIM software tools. The tools that conform to open standards guided by the buildingSMART AllianceTM allow substantially improved business processes. Founded in the early 1990s, the Alliance has created a format that allows BIM software to share data.

The ONUMA Planning SystemTM is a BIM program that takes great advantage of the open standards created by the Alliance. OPSTM is highly effective at sharing data with other BIM programs. Additionally, OPSTM can aid the use of building industry data on private or public web sites. On the web, the data can be as easy to access as airline industry data on Expedia.com.

The LA BIMstorm^TM showed that the entire building industry the surprising productivity and profitablity that can be achieved when software providers