PREVIEW: New ARCHIBUS V.20.1 Offers New Applications

The evolution of ARCHIBUS continues with the upcoming release in March of ARCHIBUS V.20.1, which will offer more Web-based solutions to help you achieve your real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management goals in a variety of areas relating to environmental applications, BIM integration, commissioning, space management and more.

ARCHIBUS V.20.1 delivers, for example, a new suite of applications within the Environmental & Risk Management domain that include:

• Clean Building, for easily identifying, tracking, and abating hazardous materials in the built environment, such as asbestos, lead paint, radon, and mold
• Waste Management, for providing closed-loop, auditable processes for tracking, managing, and reducing both hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams
• Environmental Health & Safety, for tracking and managing workplace incidents, safety equipment / training, medical monitoring, and work restrictions to avoid regulatory fines and liability
• Material Safety Data Sheets, an application that simplifies the storage and retrieval of information on hazardous substances intentionally stored and used within a facility

Also featured in V.20.1 is the improved ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for Revit, which bi-directionally integrates facilities and infrastructure data with BIM models over the Web for comprehensive building lifecycle management and reporting.

In addition, the new ARCHIBUS Commissioning application enables the seamless transfer, retention, and access of space information, equipment schedules, and COBie data automatically from a BIM "as-built" model to ensure that all systems operate as intended, throughout the lifecycle of a building. It can generate commission surveys and also allow review of advanced submissions for early-stage corrections.

Other new V.20.1.enhancements can be found in space management with new Workspace Transaction functionality in the ARCHIBUS Space Inventory & Performance application. The Workspace Transaction capability tracks space trends with new time-based features and statistics, and now also unifies hoteling, partial occupancy, multiple room occupancy, moves, and split-allocations to provide valuable metrics and accurate, defensible information for chargeback or strategic space planning.

The Enhanced Global Feature Set adds a comprehensive multi-currency functionality that captures international cost transactions. It enables you to operate in multiple local currencies, with the flexibility to adapt to local VAT requirements as well as localized units of area expressed in a local user's units, the common project units, or both.

These new applications and features of ARCHIBUS V.20.1 (Web Central & Run Anywhere Smart Client) ship simultaneously in six languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and Simplified Chinese) on March 30, 2012.

There is much to look forward to in ARCHIBUS V.20.1. And you'll learn much more about it at the 2012 International ARCHIBUS Users' Conference in Boston in April.

2012 International ARCHIBUS Users' Conference: More Great Presentations Added

Boston - April 29 - May 2.

There's still time to register for the Users' Conference and there are still more presentations coming online to pique your interest, inform your work, and improve your operations and career prospects. Check out these new additions:

• University of Massachusetts Medical Center Plans "One-Stop Shop" Portal for Moves, Mapping, and Robust Space Survey
• Unum - The BIM to FM Journey: Integrating BIM with ARCHIBUS
• Federal Aviation Administration - Doing More with Less: Using ARCHIBUS for Capital Budgeting, Projects, Space, Moves, and Building Operations
• Northrop Grumman Aerospace System's Continuous Improvement Strategies Help Leverage Full Potential of ARCHIBUS
• University of North Carolina-Charlotte: Powers ARCHIBUS-GIS-BIM-BAS Platform for Campus-Wide Infrastructure Performance/Efficiency Management

And there are many more stimulating presentations waiting for you when you attend the International ARCHIBUS Users' Conference.

Time is running out. Register today.

Training Sessions: April to June

Now is the time to sign-up for a little ARCHIBUS professional enrichment with these upcoming training sessions in our Boston office. Register today for:

• April 2-5
  EU101 - Fundamentals
• May 15-17
  SA201 - System Administration
• May 21-22
  SI302 - System Integration: Web Central
• May 23-24
  SI303 - System Integration: Web Central - Advanced
• June 19-22
  EU101 - Fundamentals

For complete course descriptions and to register, click here.