Autodesk InfraWorks 2014(AIM)

http://www.autodesk.com/products/autodesk-infraworks/overview


http://youtu.be/FIpq6wTGLlI

ExplainingTheFuture.com by Christopher Barnatt

http://explainingthefuture.com/

The Importance of BIM in Structural Engineering The Greatest Change in Over a Century

.....Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a building design method that uses a database of coordinated, graphically rich, internally consistent, computable information in three-dimensional models for design, engineering, construction and facility management. In varying ways, in less than ten years, BIM will permanently change the structural engineering profession and its universities, firms, clients, markets, design codes, digital tools, contracts, insurance policies, global recruitment of staff, work process and many other aspects. The evidence suggests that those who do not take a reasonably sober view of this disruptive technology will have a hard time recognizing the typical structural engineering firm of 2015. Such bold claims of the importance of BIM may appear to be overstated and warrant some justification......


http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=773