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“Ready or not, it’s high time to make BIM a part of your practice, or at least your vocabulary, and this book has as much to offer beginners as it does seasoned users of building information modeling software.”
—Chicago Architect
The first book devoted to the subject of how BIM affects individuals and organizations working within the ever-changing construction industry, BIM and Integrated Design discusses the implementation of building information modeling software as a cultural process with a focus on the technology’s impact and transformative effect—both potentially disruptive and liberating—on the social, psychological, and practical aspects of the workplace.
BIM and Integrated Design answers the questions that BIM poses to the firm that adopts it. Through thorough research and a series of case study interviews with industry leaders—and leaders in the making out from behind the monitor—BIM and Integrated Design helps you learn:
Covering all of the human issues brought about or exacerbated by the advent of BIM into the architecture workplace, profession, and industry, BIM and Integrated Design shows how to overcome real and perceived barriers to its use.
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
PART I
BIM As Though People Mattered 1
Chapter 1
WHAT YOU ADOPT WHEN ADOPTING BIM 3
Chapter 2
THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF IMPLEMENTING BIM 29
Case Study Interview with Paul Durand, AIA, and Allison Scott, Winter Street Architects 46
Case Study Interview with Aaron Greven, BIM Consultant 53
Chapter 3
WHO WORKS IN BIM AND WHO DOESN’T 63
Case Study Interview with Jack Hungerford, PhD 69
Case Study Interview with Kristine K. Fallon, FAIA, Kristine Fallon Associates 76
PART II
Leading Integrated Design 89
Chapter 4
WORKING WITH OTHERS IN BIM 91
Case Study Interview with Rich Nitzsche, CIO, Perkins + Will 111
Chapter 5
BIM AND INTEGRATED DESIGN 127
Case Study Interview with Andy Stapleton and Peter Rumpf, Mortenson Construction 140
Case Study Interview with Jonathan Cohen, FAIA, Architect and Author 148
PART III
Leading and Learning 157
Chapter 6
LEADING FROM THE MODEL 159
Case Study Interview with Bradley Beck, Architect and BIM Manager 171
Case Study Interview with Charles Hardy, director, Office of Project Delivery at U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service National Capital Region 191
Chapter 7
LEARNING BIM AND INTEGRATED DESIGN 201
Case Study Interview with Yanni Loukissas, PhD, Postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 209
Case Study Interview with Phil Bernstein, FAIA, vice president, Autodesk 218
Epilogue 235
Index 237
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“Ready or not, it’s high time to make BIM a part of your practice, or at least your vocabulary, and this book has as much to offer beginners as it does seasoned users of building information modeling software.”
—Chicago Architect
The first book devoted to the subject of how BIM affects individuals and organizations working within the ever-changing construction industry, BIM and Integrated Design discusses the implementation of building information modeling software as a cultural process with a focus on the ...