Today, BIM is regarded to be on the same digitally “disruptive” plane as big data, robotics, and Virtual/Augmented Realities (VR and AR).
Bigness meets “BIMness.” 1īIM “7D” graph, from Cameron Richard, “7D 6D 5D 4D 3D bIM Dimensions bIM Services ESTIMATING,” found on Slideplayer. New modes of representation have emerged to support ever tighter synchronizations of building information, across ever larger surface areas of spatial management.
BIM takes on an increasingly credible vision in search of greater construction efficiencies, error reductions, labor savings, and other frontiers of optimization. In the last two decades, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as a de facto industrial-strength medium of the global Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Digital information has never been more closely coupled with the material logics and deployable flows of construction and operations across a building’s life. But something has fundamentally changed in the ambitions of architectural visualization, and with it, relationships between representation and reality. Modeling software, like any other tool in history, helps architects depict, design, and produce drawings for construction. On the surface, the way we document buildings may still look the same.
