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Skill vs Power: Learning BIM

If you have six minutes, please do yourself a favor and watch this video. But instead of thinking about video games, think about BIM adoption in firms. Specifically think about people learning ArchiCAD, Revit, or one of the other BIM authoring tools out there. Here’s the best analogy from the …

BIM Maturity Survey from Purdue University

There are a lot of people out there researching BIM, BIM implementation, BIM maturity, etc. I’d say I fill out three or four of these surveys a month. As long as I have the time, I’m always happy to provide my data points. Since BIM is so much about Information …

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Happy Valentine’s Day: One Simple Diagram

It should be obvious by now that I love making charts, graphs, and diagrams. As a Valentine’s Day present, I give to you a reproduction of a mood chart that lived on the Banks’ family refrigerator for many months last winter. My wife and I found it quite helpful. A …

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Primary Benefits of BIM

This is the third part in a series about demystifying BIM. The first post Why you failed at BIM (you were impatient) looked at the struggles with BIM adoption. The second post There are Four BIM Flavors clarified the term BIM by looking at two major factors: BIG/little and social/lonely. …

BIM Flavors

There are Four BIM Flavors

“In the short term, we are little bimmers. In the long term, we are Big Bimmers.”                                                                                                      -David “Joshua” Plager, AIA The comment above was posted on LinkedIN in response to my blog post “Why you failed at BIM“. What a great sentiment. In all the back …