TAP BIM Awards Overview

On June 6, the Second Annual BIM [Building Information Modeling] Awards Competition announced seven citation winners and one honorable mention during its conference, Models for the Future of the Architecture Profession: The Risks, Rewards, and Opportunities of Technology in Los Angeles. Recipients were on hand to accept certificates during a presentation conducted by the Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Committee. Awards were presented in the following six categories—

Creating Stellar Architecture Using BIM
Fredric C Hamilton Building M.A. Mortenson Company







Design/Delivery Process Innovation Using BIM
Flint Global V6 Plant Expansion Ghafari Associates/GM







Inspirational Pilot Projects Demonstrating New Ways Forward
Satterfield & Pontikes Kirksey
Corporate Headquarters














Analysis or Simulation
Library Transformation Leo A Daly
Georgia State University Library Holder Construction

Analysis or Simulation
Herbert C Hoover Building Group Goetz Architects
Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn Architects














Jury’s Choice
Merck Laboratory Boston Kling

Honorable Mention—Academic Program
Elgin Fire Station #6 UIC Architecture

















The competition was juried by a panel of experts in both architecture and technological change.

BIM Jury

Peter Beck
The Beck Group
Managing Director

Charles Eastman
Georgia Tech
Professor, Architecture and Computing/Director
Georgia Institute of Architecture

Stephen Kieran
Kieran Timberlake Associates

William Mitchell
Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
The Media Laboratory—MIT

Martha Thorne
Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize

For questions about the BIM Awards, or the Technology in Architectural Practice Knowledge Community, please send an e-mail to tap@aia.org.