Originally Posted by
clawrence.194172
I've been wondering about something recently and hoping to get some disucssion/responses for this. Traditionally, architects would produce drawings that are stamped and have limited ability for others to access, revise, etc. since they are intellectual property and the architect is then liable for the information shown on the drawings. It seems to me with BIM, that the model is created by the architect and engineers and then gets passed down to the contractor and then passed on to the owner. So it seems that the architect and his team put forth all the effort and expense of creating/producing the model (intellectual property) and then it just gets passed on to be used by others. So, I suppose my question is: how to architects maintain rightful liability as well as intellectual property of their services with BIM. It just seems like the value of the architect gets lost in BIM. What do you guys think?