List of Contributions

From a recent meeting of major building owners , " Until BIM can demonstrate improved AEC efficiency productivity , better TCO demonstratively reduced Risk ,soft cost it has limited value to the client Heard the same comments at Zurich on the Re Insurance view. -- Pete Baston Sent from Gmail ...

At the risk of sounding like an echo Any AEC improved methodology whether IPD whatever must demonstrate the following in a transparent and verifiable way in real time 1 . It will improve total efficiency / productivity 2. It will improve TCO 3 . It will reduce soft costs 4 ...

Comment from a group meeting of large AEC clients I thought was enlightening. " Until BIM or any proposed tech upgrade can lead to measurable drastic improvement in Efficiency / Quality / Improved TCO with reduced soft costs and lower master risk it has no value to us. " With AEC Tech are we ...

It is indeed a quandary . From the teacher and student view it's probably determined by which field of engineering they are headed for and where the jobs are . In AEC at the middle and top end BIM is certainly a requisite but at the lower end as Nathan points out its not so clear . CAD teaches how to ...