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The American Institute of Steel Construction now endorses BIM file exchanges using buildingSMART International's Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). New Millennium supports this decision, as we have been using the IFC format with great success on many BIM-based, IPD projects over the last year.
An early impediment to BIM and IPD adoption was to decide which software to invest in, with the risk that your choice would not prevail in the marketplace. When we developed our own digital steel joist design component in early 2010, it was based on one of the leading structural steel software platforms; yet we needed our component to be universally sharable, regardless of what structural software another company was using on the same BIM project.
We found that the most frequent solution came by way of buildingSMART International and their Industry Foundation Classes (IFC). We soon began to exchange files using IFC, and it no longer mattered whether your brand of software did not match ours. We could still readily exchange files.
The steel industry is now recognizing and endorsing the IFC format. In addition, many of our customers now prefer to receive an IFC file, even if they are using the same modeling software that we use. They are more comfortable with our generating the IFC file for the steel joists; and we prefer doing so, because we too want to insure the accuracy and integrity of the joist information.
View AISC's press release regarding IFC adoption for BIM/IPD.
New Millennium can share structural steel design files with other BIM project participants using several industry standard file formats. Along with many of our collaborating participants, we now prefer IFC, the buildingSMART International Industry Foundation Classes file exchange format.
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NEW! Dynamic Joist™ v2.0 is compatible with Tekla Structures v17.0 SR1
Dynamic Joist™ v1.1 is compatible with Tekla Structures v16.0 R1
New Millennium's Dynamic Joist® digital steel joist design component has been downloaded by hundreds of structural engineers and detailers since it was released in early 2010. The component is an add-on to Tekla Structures and our latest versions are available as a free download.
About a year ago our parent company, Steel Dynamics, Inc., acquired three, strategically located, steel joist production facilities in the western US. These plants have since been revitalized and optimized, and are ready to serve you.
The three facilities, acquired a year ago, are located in Hope, Arkansas; Fallon Nevada; and Juarez, Mexico. The Juarez facility began production in November 2010 with immediately successful penetration of the steel construction market in the southwest. The Hope and Fallon facilities have meanwhile been extensively upgraded and now bring increased operating efficiency and capacity, based on the same flexible manufacturing model experienced by the company's steel construction customers across the eastern United States.
The second largest manufacturer of steel joists and metal decking in America, New Millennium brings progressive engineering, manufacturing and service support to all steel construction segments nationwide, while continuing to introduce such advancements as the industry's first digital steel joist design component for 3D BIM-based project collaboration.
According to Gary Heasley, President of New Millennium, the official opening of the three plants has completed the company's promise, made a year ago, to its expanding customer base within the structural steel sectors:
“A year ago we announced by these facility acquisitions our intent to support new customers in the southwest and western markets,” said Heasley. “We have now established this nationwide service capability and are excited to bring our brand of highly proactive, innovative steel joist and metal decking supply to owners, major retailers, structural-steel fabricators, and design-build firms all across the country.”
Quick facts regarding new NMBS plants:
New Millennium Building Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Steel Dynamics Inc.
