BIM Demystified, 2nd Edition

Section 6BIM within the project

BIM within a project can be an agent for cohesion and collaboration. Collaboration can have almost opposite meanings. The Oxford English Dictionary gives its meaning as ‘work jointly with’ or ‘co-operate traitorously with an enemy’. While the latter is a little extreme it does contain a mixture of elements often found in project teams. There are champions of BIM and the sceptics, whose outlook injects resistance at best and can introduce serious information quality problems at worst. Their input needs to be managed carefully.

Technology or methodology?

BIM viewed as technology is a delivery tool, BIM viewed as information management is a delivery methodology. In the former case the team must decide which software ...