SIRAP's Pakistani night

It was about two years ago when I joined SIRAP's (Stockholm International Researchers' Association) board since I had found the group an amazing multinational team with members from different universities, scientific backgrounds and nationalities. I was keeping an eye over their activities these years and even planned  to rejoin them several times but could not make it until quite recently.

My first collaboration with the group at Pakistan Cultural Evening last night was incredibly joyful and rewarding. Guys from Pakistan Student Association joined us at Studentpalatset with impressive presentations on Pakistan, its people, art and nature followed by superb Pakistani dishes. I met a dozen of friends from school and got a glimpse of Pakistan's culture, past and present; things that you never notice if you just follow the news.

I am sure about and also look forward to having immense opportunities of fun and delight in the future by contributing to SIRAP's ensuing educative and recreational activities. You are all also welcome!

BIM Collaboration Lab

KTH BIM Collaboration Lab is located at Stockholm, KTH main campus, Brinellvägen 1, 1st floor. Here are the initial sketches for the lab that I made according to Väino's drafts and how it looks like at the time. The interior will be completed in near future and the number of seats will be increased to ten during workshops. The lab will be transferred to a more spacious room when the basic activities are practiced for a while and further requirements for an ideal functionality are determined.

The lab will be a meeting place for all interested actors in ACE/FM industry and BIM experts for sharing their points of view and experiences on application of BIM, gains and losses, opportunities and hinders also for contributing to discussions on standardization of data formats used within the wide variety of ACE/FM branches.

SUCH -, the Sustainable Urban Collaboration Hub - will be developed here based on empirical requirements for an integrated, standardized and neutral information system that facilitates smooth and steady flow of information through different phases of program, design, construction, administration and recycling of the building also among the variety of participating groups. To explain the aim of such a platform in a clear and concise way: SUCH is expected to help optimizing planning and design procedure, minimizing loss of information and redundant work, increasing the profit, reducing design and construction time and promoting an integrated and environmental-friendly approach towards planning and design.


The aforementioned are in fact often mentioned as advantages for use of BIM - Building Information Modelling in general. Nonetheless, those objective would have never been fulfilled unless ubiquitous adoption and seamless application of BIM  is realised. This is in fact the main inducement of the escalating tradition of establishment of BIM labs by schools and ACE firms.