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Newsletter issues, event recaps, and insights on built-world data.

Simon Dilhas

Will Architecture/Engineering have its Kodak awakening?

I just saw this post by Daniel Schwarz, 15 minutes and the LLM Astra generate a building model in 15 Minutes based on a floorplan. So is this the first steps towards a Kodak moment in our industry?

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Simon Dilhas

From BIM Explanation Plan to requirements you can check

Simon Dilhas on ten years of BIM requirements: Excel and Word in 2015, test-driven data contracts, and the new goal-driven pragmaticBIM release.

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Simon Dilhas

AI in AEC: How to Deploy Agents Without the Change-Order Blowup

The Stockholm AI café experiment shows why blind autonomy fails in AEC—and how bounded authority, project memory, escalation paths, and feedback loops let firms deploy agents safely today.

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Simon Dilhas

Connected Building Data: Application and Economic Viability

Recap of the HWZ workshop on connected building data – projukt, digital buildings, room names, change processes, and machine-readable SIA standards.

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Simon Dilhas

BIM Busters: Why the Prototype Dogma Blocks Construction (And How We Decode Building DNA)

Every building is not a prototype. Form, process, and pattern standards explain building DNA—rooms, separations, connections, and rules—and how the Pragmatic BIM Data Contract unlocks automation.

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Simon Dilhas

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