Skyjack has announced the availability of Building Information Model compatible image and data files to assist architects and engineers with their digital project plans. BIM technology digitally constructs an accurate virtual model of a project. This model can be used for planning, design, construction, and operation of the facility. These models help architects, engineers, and construction companies visualize their project in a simulated environment which, in turn, enables them to identify potential design, construction or operational issues.
“Rental companies work closely with the architectural, engineering and construction community and we see value in providing those companies with Skyjack BIM compatible models so the specification accuracy of their Skyjack fleet in work and maintenance projects is increased,” said Malcolm Early, vice president of marketing at Skyjack.
Skyjacks products currently available as models include:
- SJ12 and SJ16 vertical mast lifts;
- SJ3219, SJ3226, and SJ4632 scissor lifts;
- SJ6832 RT, SJ8831 RT, SJ8841 RT, SJ9241 RT, and SJ9250 RT rough terrain scissor lifts;
- SJ46 AJ, SJ51 AJ, SJ63 AJ, and SJ85 AJ articulating booms;
- and SJ30 ARJE DC articulating booms.
The BIM library will be expanded to include Skyjack telescopic booms in 2018.
“It’s been a pleasure to work alongside Skyjack to develop their BIM offering, and we will continue to create the most sophisticated access system models that are available,” said Connor Laing, content specialist at bimstore. “We have enjoyed helping Skyjack stay at the forefront of their industry and build high-quality BIM components for specifiers to utilize in their Building Information Models.”
Skyjack models can be downloaded from www.bimstore.co.uk or www.bimstore.us.
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Michael Roth
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.