Estimating and scheduling are included in Revit as feature topics, yes.

The question is how useful and ideal that is for professional quantity surveyors and schedulers who want to have item-based actual figures and detailed simulations for materials, resources and scheduling.

(And then also want to provide the information to the site management and backoffice accurately and in time).

Sina, it would be interesting to hear more about your thesis on BIM/QIM.

Why don’t you drop me a line. You can find the contacts through “about”.

Exactly what are the lacking features or features that are not working properly in Revit?

I’m going to be doing a masters thesis in BIM (well QIM to be exact), and i can also write software code (good thing they’ve opened up Revit so you can extend its functionality). My background is building construction, so i am fully versed should you like to get technical.

Thanks!

I agree with you, completely.

I just wanted to make this “pictures” provoking simplification because with BIM is considered by many as the ultimate solution to all construction information management problems.

As far as I can see BIM always requires a graphical presentation. Accounting and procurement people are not most effective digging tendering information from a BIM model. They rather have a dull but functional list refined for their purposes.

This is a never-ending discussion, which should continue.

Timber the one commodity if you like that all of us would have thought would be the least of our worries is being sent to landfill because the current system cannot cope with the quantity thrown at it.

In construction there is a vast amount of timber being used and needing to be recycled. Take timber road profiles, mile after mile of them along our new roads delineating line and level, after two uses the timber splits and is no use and so is thrown in a skip. The Cross-Bone I discovered, which has been around for a while is made from recycled plastic and is a 100% reusable profiling system – but know one is using them -are they mad it saves money in all directions -materials, disposal, labour etc.

When will the site management open their eyes to what is available to them and stop being so stuck in their ways – they can’t afford to as the world and environment around them is changing – for the better!!