About Us
The CAD/BIM Technology Center for Facilities, Infrastructure and Environment
Computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) are creating new opportunities for architects, engineers, and building owners. The CAD/BIM Technology Center explores new CAD and BIM technologies for facilities, infrastructure, and environment within DoD.
Comprehensive CAD/BIM Services
Center activities runs the gamut of CAD and BIM, including setting standards, promoting system integration, and providing assistance for the installation, training, operation, and maintenance of CAD and BIM systems.
The Center staff consists of professionals with extensive experience in the use of CAD and BIM technology for solving complex problems related to:
- Facility management
- Natural and cultural resources
- Planning
- Civil works functions
Staff members also assist sites in implementing the Architectural/Engineering/Construction (A/E/C) CAD Standard, as well as the Corps’ Corporate Template Dataset for BIM.
The Center has received two Vice President’s Hammer Awards for Excellence in Reinvention of Government. We have also shared in earning a Fully Integrated and Automated Technology (FIATECH) Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation (CETI) award in 2008 for the project “U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Moves Forward with Building Information Modeling.”
Advancing Geospatial Integration
The CAD/BIM Center offers a full range of technical and professional services for geospatial technologies including computer-aided Design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM), geographic information systems (GIS), and computer-aided facility management (CAFM) systems. The Center also provides centralized procurement vehicles for products and services to agencies and users of these systems.
Strategy for Technology Integration
The Tri-Service CAD/BIM/CAFM Technology Center develops and supports a DoD-wide strategy and tactical plans for the integration of CAD, BIM, and CAFM technologies in the following mission areas:
- Role in acquisition: Defines the technical requirements for acquiring and/or accessing future large centralized CAD and BIM acquisitions for USACE and the Army.
- Applications development: Acts as a focal point for consolidation of CAD, BIM, and CAFM automation products.
- Promote communication: Provides a clearinghouse to share information, programs, processes, techniques and available training programs. The TCX records ideas and needs of the DoD and other agencies and coordinates with vendors and users in industry.
- Promote standards: Plays a key role in developing logical and portable standards, making them available, and facilitating their sharing. The TCX educates management by marketing the benefits of standardization.
- Furnish technical advice: Acts as a clearinghouse for both hardware and software issues. The TCX establishes objectives to maximize the benefits of consolidated acquisitions and promotes an integrated data structure.
- Interface with professional organizations and industry: Maintains working relationships with professional organizations and industry to aid in the coordination of standards for CAD, BIM and CAFM (e.g, National Institute of Building Sciences, buildingSMART alliance).
- Evaluate technological developments: Evaluates software improvement submissions from vendors, determines compatibility with existing systems, and coordinates changes in data exchange standards and related features that would impact interoperability with DoD and other agencies.
- Recommend necessary CAD, BIM and CAFM policy: Aids in the development of policy, with the goal to create policy that is consistent across DoD and other participating agencies.
