WHAT IS BIM?
Information is at the center of the entire building delivery process, primarily for proper communication between the Architect, the Consultants, and the End-users.
Thousands of years ago, this information was in the form of detailed sketches by the Architect — who would likely still be the builder — inked onto a palette, for the communication of his ideas to his Patron, the client. This hand drafting persisted through the various civilizations, until just recently, the advent of the Industrial Revolution — and its modernist movement — birthed the PC evolution, with a much ‘aha!-moment’ in the construction industry, when the revolutionary CAD Technology was borne.
Computer-aided Design largely took over ink and paper, as the primary means of creating information through the building delivery process. The basic ideology behind CAD, however, was using the computer to produce the same result as the old manual drafting — just much faster and efficiently. The monumental pace of technological advancement quickly revealed the vast computer resources can be utilized to do even much better — that is exactly how the story of Building Information Modeling began.
