Marek Brandstatter
2004-06-22, 08:53 AM
Interesting article from Information Week
"The writing is on the wall: The building industry is on the cusp of change. And the wall, increasingly, can be found in a 3-D database. "
If the trend gains momentum, the building industry stands to be transformed in ways similar to what supply-chain management has done for manufacturers. "Clearly, the whole idea of developing a design of a building in three dimensions and using a database to document it is going to be the way we do things in the future," says Ross Wimer, a design partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of two architectural firms designing New York's Freedom Tower, to be built on the site of the fallen World Trade Center. "The idea of creating a database and giving it to a contractor will be a much more streamlined process."
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17500908&pgno=1
"The writing is on the wall: The building industry is on the cusp of change. And the wall, increasingly, can be found in a 3-D database. "
If the trend gains momentum, the building industry stands to be transformed in ways similar to what supply-chain management has done for manufacturers. "Clearly, the whole idea of developing a design of a building in three dimensions and using a database to document it is going to be the way we do things in the future," says Ross Wimer, a design partner with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, one of two architectural firms designing New York's Freedom Tower, to be built on the site of the fallen World Trade Center. "The idea of creating a database and giving it to a contractor will be a much more streamlined process."
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=17500908&pgno=1