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BIM for designers and engineers

BIM for designers and engineers

From the course: BIM Foundations

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BIM for designers and engineers

- From a point of view of the design team, architects, designer, engineer, BIM is often mistaken with a software. But as we discussed, BIM is much more than that. BIM is a major change, especially for architects and engineers who have been working and communicating in 2D for centuries. It changed the way that an architectural representation is constructed, fundamentally changing the line by line layout and the whole thought processes that go with it. Learning the tool of BIM is just the first step. Design is a team effort, involving the client, the architect, and specialist designers and engineers and more and more others like fabricators, manufacturers, contractors, and sub-contractors are invited to be part of the design process as well. A project realization involves a high level of coordination and collaboration, and this coordination and collaboration involves multiple level of communication. At one level, it involve communication between people. At another level, it involve…

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