Whitestone Facility O&M Cost Forecasts Featured in BIMStorm LAX
Santa Barbara, CA – February 28, 2008 - Whitestone Research recently participated in BIMStorm LAX, a 24-hour rapid design exercise for over 420 new buildings in downtown Los Angeles. Whitestone generated life-cycle operations & maintenance (O&M) cost profiles based on preliminary designs, which were then fed back into the design process. The profiles came from MARS Facility Cost Forecast System, one of a collection of software tools used in BIMStorm.
Organized by by ONUMA Inc, the demonstration brought together 25 teams that collaborated on planning and design, while 700 people participated as on-line observers. BIMStorm’s purpose was to demonstrate the potential of Building Information Modeling (BIM), an emerging process for electronically sharing life-cycle building information.
For more about BIMstorm, see Michael Tardiff’s AIArchitect article, “BIMStorm Hits LA.”
Whitestone Research specializes in applied policy research and life cycle cost modeling for large facilities. Whitestone products and services are used every year by hundreds of major corporations, government agencies, and institutions. Whitestone has offices in Washington, DC and Santa Barbara, CA.
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