National Institute of Building Sciences Conference focuses on BIM education
Last month, the National Institute of Building Sciences Annual Conference and Expo wrapped up with a look at how building information modeling (BIM) is being taught to the next generation of building industry professionals. “BIM Academic Education Symposium—Setting the Course for a BIM Educational Strategy” brought together educators for the fourth year to continue their work to establish a common educational strategy for BIM education.
During the morning presentations, professors from several different universities shared their educational curriculum approaches and talked about how they had the various program disciplines — architecture, engineering, construction, project management, interior design and landscape architecture, facility operations, and even communications — participate in the project team during these courses. The second panel addressed the partnership between industry and academia and ways to integrate BIM.