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08 February 2014
Dear ,
Wish you a Happy New Year...!
First, my apologies for long silence... It was not intended, but many circumstances moved away my focus out of my own research work. However, during the time I paid more attention to my undergraduate research students (who were the first very few in BIM from Sri Lanka) to get them complete with something valuable. You can find their interim publications in my publications page. I will update you once they made their final publications.
There were some key developments during the last year.
BCIM Initiative
 Building Cost Information Modelling (BCIM) Initiative was novel concept brought into the BIM world. It was a concept born within the BIMLab Net. We consider it to be very important to bring best value for money through BIM adoption.
It was well received when we presented the concept at Hong Kong QS BIM Conference in November last year; but we honestly had to agree that it was long way ahead. However, someone has to take the initiative. We took it, and we hope that QS and Cost Engineering community will take it forward with enthusiasm.
Access BCIMI website here.
iBIM²
 I created the open website for Innovative Building Information Modelling and Management (iBIM²) internet group as a portal to bring together the Sri Lankan individuals who are keen on bringing in BIM and related concepts and technologies for the benefit of Sri Lankan building (construction) industry.
The website was setup using free Google tools (blogger and Google groups) which makes anybody be able to become a member and to actively participate (of course you’ll need a Google account which is free). The primary reason was that BIMLab Net is with limited resources that I would not be able to sustain it with a large number of registered users within it.
Please use the forum to discuss issues and ask questions. If you are interested in authoring short articles, please let me know your Google ID so that I can add you as an author.
Access iBIM² Website here.
The New Look
I transferred the BIMLab Net site to a new server expecting better performance (not sure if I actually got it though). Updated the site with a new look replacing the less performing earlier template. Hope you like the new look.
I’ve now added a twitter feed. Check that out regularly (or follow us) as I will tweet interesting feeds as and when I find them.
I got good feedbacks for my article “BIM for DIM” last time. Thank you all. I hope now you are quite knowledgeable in the subject by reading more and (some) with real life experience. Find few new (and not so new) articles below.
Have a joyous weekend and a wonderful week ahead.
Kind regards
Suranga
onbehalf of
BIMLab Network
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