What is this thing we have been calling BIM “implementation” for so many years? As a professional who has been working in and around the move to Building Information Modeling for over 15 years, I am appalled at how few people I have seen that would really consider themselves successful with the change to it.
Why is this? I would suggest that it is because of this elusive word – implementation. Everybody talks about it, but what they really want is a quick fix to a very complex challenge – a little bit of training here, creation of a little bit of content there, a pretty rendering, some “clash-detection”, some “how to’s” – the challenge of taking a bunch of disparate participants and bringing them all together into one cohesive environment.
So, let’s have a quick look at the meaning of the word implementation and see how it applies to the move to BIM and a true digitally deliverable that provides value to all participants.
“The process of putting a decision or plan into…