BIM in the years to come...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is definitely going to be the main stream method used by architects and engineers for building projects for many years to come in the future. But being on the same boat as Rita Pauliushchyk of being new to the subject matter of BIM and in the process of training myself to become proficient with all the tools which are incorporated in BIM it is hard to accurately predict where BIM will stand 5-10 years from now as she mentioned in her blog post. The reason I am confident that BIM is the future of architects and engineers is because firms which have already implemented BIM in their projects resulted in achieving decrease time, cost reduction, facilitating documentation, greater quality of visualization, allowing better integration, and facilitating sharing and transferring of information as Maria Gonzalez stated in her blog post has all allowed more and more people to gain confidence in the BIM process as a whole. One of the main reasons it is difficult to predict where BIM will stand 5-10 years from now is as the speaker Eric Kuszewzki from our previous mentioned the learning curve for BIM is very high for the architects and the engineers in the field today. Therefore it is difficult to predict how quick that learning curve can be decreased in the future before BIM becomes main stream for projects.  

Based on an article I read “BIM’s future up in the cloud” by Dominic Thasarathar, I believe the learning curve for BIM will decrease in the years to come. One of the reasons the learning process of BIM has been so slow is for the roadblocks consisting lack of computing power and high cost of hardware which sets many limitations for training in BIM. So the article talks about how BIM is in the works of major integration with cloud computing to turn these roadblocks into “sidesteps”. BIM’s integration with cloud will able its users to use BIM from an average computer from any location on the earth with unlimited computing power to make BIM accessible to wider range of users. Additionally more and more institutes, colleges, and universities are enforcing their scholars to use BIM software in their curriculum which is helping again to decrease the learning curve. For instance I as an architectural engineering student here at Drexel University am required to use Revit for design purpose and SAP2000 for structure analyses, both of the software are incorporated with BIM. So lot of investment and effort is being place in the architecture and engineering industry to switch over to encounter projects using the BIM process conventionally.

Thasarathar, Dominic. "BIM's future up in the cloud." BIM's future up in the cloud. 08 Aug. 2012. 29 Jan. 2013 <http://www.bdcnetwork.com/bim%E2%80%99s-future-cloud>.