OK, so maybe the need for BIM content is still a new concept to some people out there, but for many of us however, we have moved onto questions about what it should look like, what it should contain, and what format those containers use. In that regard, we are forever hearing discussions/arguments between designers and manufacturers about how BIM content should look and what information it should contain. We have competing protocols and design guides being promoted in different market sectors and territories, to gain the upper hand and become THE standard.
But perhaps this is all irrelevant. I will tell anyone that sits still long enough to listen to me, that we will know when BIM has been successful, when we all stop talking about it. When we go back to designing and delivering projects, without a press release on the BIM aspects of it. I don’t believe that this tipping point can happen until the FM guy starts to expect BIM deliverables and engages meaningfully in the…