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AECbytes.com (13 September 2007)

In an AECbytes.com "Building the future" article, 2007 Third Annual BIM Awards, Part 2, Lachmi Khemlani discusses projects that won BIM Award citations, including HOK's work on the Royal London Hospital. This project saw deployment of Autodesk Architectural Desktop (ADT - now AutoCAD Architecture), and its object-based capabilities were used to achieve BIM-like benefits.

... what was really unique about the Royal London Hospital project was the integration of a software called CodeBook, which encapsulates key government-sanctioned medical information and requirements. This software is linked to the principal ADT models, allowing the designers to constantly check that room layouts and services fulfill the requirements of medical need (see Figure 3). It is this integration of the program requirements into the design process, facilitated through BIM, that won the Royal London Hospital project the BIM Award for the category of Support for Human Use and Innovative Program Requirements Using BIM, which requires evidence of the application of user or occupant-based rules to developing and refining a design.

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