Section 15Where will BIM go in the future?
The political landscape
Mainstream practice in the UK is beginning to enjoy a level of evangelism and enthusiasm for BIM that has been extant in the USA for some time. America benefits from a larger scale of market, larger projects and vast public procurement agencies that the UK does not. As early as July 2009 the State of Wisconsin declared all new building with a capital value in excess of $5m should ‘begin their A/E design processes with BIM and 3D software’. The stimulus for this came from an earlier Executive Order which required state agencies to conform to higher environmental and energy efficiency standards. The UK is now catching up, not only in terms of championing BIM, but also using environmental ...
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