Changing Perspectives: BIM as a Virtual Community
We are all familiar with using BIM to report on the information it stores; passive data. In the very near future, data will be used to inform designs with the help of advancements in generative design, software algorithms, and robotic construction; active data. There is no doubt that our current information management processes are going to have to change if we hope to leverage this co-creation capability.
- Have you always viewed BIM as a means to an end? What about BIM as the beginning?
- Is the current macro perspective on BIM serving us well? Or is it inhibiting innovation?
- What if we consider the BIM process, from the very beginning to the very end, as a virtual community? A community in which everyone in the process is an active member and the information stored in that…
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