Week 7 - BIM and New Technology

The integration of BIM and its technologies has impacted the Built Environment and the Design industry. It has created new ways of analyzing and collaborating between designers, engineers and clients, becoming a more efficient medium of communicating design between industries and disciplines. This merge of Building information into one platform has become an important aspect in all levels of the built environment. In "Digital Workflows in architecture" Marble S. discusses the inefficiencies that BIM has brought to the design indeustry. "BIM and IPD were not developed to encourage innovative design, but rather to address procedural ineficiencies" (Marble, S. 2012).

Benjamin D discusses the new revolutionized method of the design process, where the traditional design methods have become an "asynchronous manner" (Holzer, D. 2011). The new processes introduced with this method has had designers, consultants, contractors, clients, and trades of the sort to collaborate and synchronize tasks within the design to construction phases through the utilization of BIM. Communication between the industries through BIM has revolutionized the inefficiencies of the Built Environment, from Design to Production. Holzers "asyncrhonous manner" is supoprted by Marble, S statement of "BIM and IPD were not developed to encourage innovative design, but rather to address procedural ineficiencies". The focus of this movement was the integration of "an entire process change that impacts nearly all activities related to the planning, delivery and operation of buildings on a social, a business and even political level" (Holzer, D. 2011). Integrating this can optimize and refine the stages of design and communication.



References:

Holzer, D. (2011). "BIM's Seven Deadly Sins." International Journal of Architectural Computing 9(4): 463-480.

Benjamin, D. (2012). Beyond Efficiency. Digital workflows in architecture: designing design -- designing assembly -- designing industry. S. Marble. Basel, Birkhäuser: 14-25.


Marble, S. (2012). BIM 2.0. Digital workflows in architecture: designing design -- designing assembly -- designing industry. S. Marble. Basel, Birkhäuser: 72- 73.