EMCOR to employ BIM design in Illinois hospital job
The Gibson Electric & Technology Solutions subsidiary of EMCOR Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., will use BIM (building information modeling) techniques for a job it recently won to install the power and technology systems for the Palos Community Hospital ...
The Gibson Electric & Technology Solutions subsidiary of EMCOR Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., will use BIM (building information modeling) techniques for a job it recently won to install the power and technology systems for the Palos Community Hospital Surgery and Bed Pavilion in Palos Heights, Ill. Gibson Electric will install all of the power and technology systems in the new hospital building, a 400,000-square-foot, seven-story addition housing 10 new multi-use surgical suites and 216 private patient rooms. The BIM process will help Gibson generate and manage building data and three-dimensional, dynamic real-time, building modeling to increase efficiency and productivity in building design and construction. Construction is scheduled to be completed in fall 2012. Details
Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.
Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.
