Congress of Scientific-Technical Information and Computing in Construction kicks-off today in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 26 (acn) The 10th Congress of Scientific-Technical Information and Computing in Construction (CICONS) begins its sessions today at Havana´s Convention Center and will run until next Thursday.

At least 300 professionals from Cuba, Japan, Mexico and Peru, according to engineer Juan Humberto Valle, president of the Organizing Committee, will attend the event.
CICONS 2019 will promote the diversification of offers of services and products for managers, professionals and technicians of the sector and other related branches, in a program that includes conferences, workshops and round tables, Valle added.
One of the novelties to present at the event is related to the possibilities of introducing the Building Information Modeling (BIM) techniques in Cuba, consisting of a process of generating and managing data of a building during its cycle of life.
According to Valle, it advances the initiative of the Project Front of engineering services and research applied to investments in construction, in the creation of a group of experts for the implementation of BIM through the use of dynamic hardware and software of three-dimensional modeling.
He also mentioned the incorporation in cell phones of Standards and Costs of the sector, the experiences of the electronic commerce of the Escambray Trading Company, with a portfolio of products and materials imported from leading manufacturers, and the technology for laying bridges in Japan, some of which are world celebrities.