The Digital Built Environment Institute (DBEI) is born!
If you attended the BILT event in St Louis this year, and were in the room and awake on Friday morning(!), you heard me talk briefly about DBEI, and about some of the possibilities that the establishment of the Institute will provide. Over the coming months, I want to write a series of blog posts that begin to set out my thinking on what this means, and that also solicits your input and involvement in defining the possible structure and role that the institute may take on.
Because, and this is truly critical…. the only way for the Institute to truly fulfil its potential is for it to be broad-based, inclusive, open, and have the buy-in of all members of the broader AECO community. Not just architects or engineers, not just Revit users or ARCHICAD users, not just North Americans or Europeans, this community must be globally broad, and full industry representative. It must be built by us all, not by any one interest group,…