Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926
While many projects now "Require" BIM, our industry is slow off the mark in reguards to supplying us with BIM Blocks. That is if you click on the alarm valve say, you should be able to know not only the size and type, but the friction loss, all of it's dimentions, and what trim is being used with it, all of the replacement parts and their part numbers, then you can click on that trim and know what retard setting is right for a flow switch or lets say on a fire pump controller, you could have all the wire3ing diagrams for the alarm guy, all the diagrams for the HV sparky, and the pressure settings for the pump start and shut off. And ton's more, basically the BIM block will have all of the info you would normally put on a drawing plus all of the info you would normally put in the submittial package, as well as co-ordinating all of the 3D space for all systems install. This is the ultimate goal and level of a BIM, right now the software available is not consistent as one package offers one level of info and another offers other info. This is a new tool that is still in the development phase. Craig L. Prahl, CET _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
