We are often brought into companies to provide what we are told is “BIM Implementation and Integration” and subsequently are asked in interviews and reviews, how can you get our company into the BIM environment? This is such a loaded question, I find myself with a zillion different questions & answers racing through my head: What are your existing conditions of design technologies? What is the knowledge-base of existing staff? What does your Training Program look like? Which

As we all know, this is still one of the biggest “complaints” we all hear on projects. “Why doesn’t it or why can’t it look like all of the typical drafted outputs we have done in the past!?!” For the 2D designer, the non-parametric minded individuals and even the CEO & Partners of the firm – this is a big hurdle to overcome. Which is crazy when you stop & realize programs like Revit, ArchiCad and Bentley have been around for more than a decade at this point and are the sta

I am proud to say that I have been in the AEC industry for 26 years and each day I love to listen and learn about new ideas, means and methods in the BIM implementation process. Yet in those moments where I pause to reflect on all that I have worked on as well as what I am currently working on, it becomes apparent that the real puzzle in a BIM environment is in deciphering the means & methods of all those past and present and what each believes is the “best way to get the p