Interesting article

[IanMatthews]

Nice article here from someone who's been around the business for a while and echoes the thoughts of more than few of us.

http://www.thenbs.com/topics/BIM/art...tandingBIM.asp

[daniel.morrison]

I used to work with the Author about 10 years ago, and in some ways he is "stuck in his ways" as he said - complains about Autodesk often and loudly in this forum as well . The article is quite good though and they are all points that we are working through in our office/ company. What he was saying about being sued if something slips through the coordination check is very pertinant as it did happen in the US where a model was fully coordinated, but not buildable - as these are two different things.

WRT engineers and BIM, this is (slowly) happening in our office. We must remember that BIM is not about software, and especially not about a single piece of software, but rather about a way of working. We give engineers Navisworks so they can look around the model, and also have started linking in whatever design we are doing to the model. I am doing a presentation at the RTC-Aus about using revit for QA as well.

I think the comparison with CAD is valid as long as we realise that this is a much bigger change.

The way we look at it here is that we will try and push as far forward as we can (within reason) but we do realise, and try to explain to clients, that it has to be baby steps at times. The biggest frustration is that there are companies that claim they do full BIM but dont really understand it at all, then win a job on price and make the whole industry look bad with their performance.

[mattw]

The "Building Services Consultancy sector"?? That sounds like a made up job title.