Building Magazine ~ The use of force: Building Information Modelling

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Further to my posting London BIM Conference and the UK Government about the Paul Morrell at the need for IPD and BIM, Building Magazines Stephen Kennett gives his take on the future of BIM short extract below:-

Building information modelling may make everything better, but most firms don’t want to use it. But that might change now the government plans to make it compulsory on all public projects. Stephen Kennett reports

Not many technologies can point to a global financial meltdown as their saviour. But building information modelling just might. Earlier this month Paul Morrell, the government’s chief construction adviser and the man tasked with improving the return on taxpayers’ investment, indicated that the government intended to adopt building information modelling, or BIM, for the procurement and management of public assets. Morrell is convinced the technology could unlock new ways of working that will reduce cost and add long-term value to the development and management of public sector buildings.

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