Last Night at the Legal Seafoods outdoor bar a Few Architects from Different Firms around the City met up to Discuss Revit (BIM) and how this Shifts in Deliverable Technology is affecting our industry. It was a insightful discussion that looked at how BIM is used on both Large Scale and small scale projects.
http://cad.amsystems.com/products/docs/autodesk-revit-building-9-whitepaper-Worksharing_Jun05.pdf
Larger Projects being Broken down into Multiple models due to the scope being so big, and Smaller scale residential projects and how the Architecture, Strucutral, and MEP models all get linked together to Coordinate and do clash detection. It was discussed how Contractors can use of Navisworks Freedom to Review Architectural Revit Models, and coordinate them with Structural, and MEP models to avoid these same revisions down the road in the field where they are much more expensive to all parties to accomplish.
Everyone had questions about what is the motivation of the Architect to provide some of the takeoff information for Contractors, and why would we as architects spend more time building these models if a good portion of the benefit goes to the contractor?
http://www.constructionsoftwarereview.com/learning_center/buyers_guides/introduction-bim-building-information-modeling/how-does-3d-virtual-mod
that is where we started looking into IPD and how some of the contractual relationships in the profession may be changing as we move forward into this different technology in the upcoming years.
We will be meetin again September 2nd 630pm at Legal Seafoods in Harvard Square again (John Harvards if the weather is bad) all interested parties are welcome to join.
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