Too few AEC professionals have developed a strategic idea of how BIM can and should re-shape professional practices and drive dramatic improvements in both creativity and production, according to Scott Simpson, FAIA, senior director of KlingStubbins in Cambridge, Mass., and a senior fellow and co-chair of the Design Futures Council, Washington, D.C.
BIM enables the exploration of design ideas quickly and in new and different ways, but it can lead people to think they’re making more progress than we actually are.
Sometimes, he says, a simple adjustment in perspective is all it takes to put things right.
Source: Design Intelligence
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