The concept of building information modeling has been around since the 1970s. It only seemed to have a relatively huge acceptance in the construction industry in the early 2000s. Since then, BIM ...

In 2008, the American Institute of Architects released its first BIM contract document—AIA E202 Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit—which outlined five “levels of development” (LOD 100-500) ...

In today's fast-paced competitive construction market, it's no longer enough to execute a project in the real world of girders, sheet metal, pipe, and racks. These days, requests for proposals (RFPs) ...

In most architectural projects, budgets far exceed projections. The eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge notoriously cost $5 billion more than projected and a new transit hub near the World ...

In Part 1 of ISO 19650, BIM is defined as the “use of a shared digital representation of a built asset to facilitate design, construction, and operation processes to form a reliable basis for ...

3D modelling and BIM software can bring designers and contractors together to simplify complex railway station projects. Chris Lo talks to Neil Sharpe of design studio Weston Williamson about the ...