I believe that stating and continuously working on a position or a view on one's subject matter of work is fundamental to build a consistent boddy of work.
This time I will review something I wrote some time ago and that I had shared via Linkedin on my personal account. This is my BIM Manifesto, version 2.0
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Risking that it may be too cliche for today’s standards and political correctness, I have to recognize I was due to declare my views on Digital Design Technologies / BIM and Architecture.
I’m not saying you have to agree to all of it or most of it. I don’t even know if in the future I would have to come back and review it. But for what I know as per today, this is what I think.
So without more preamble, here it is, my BIM Manifesto:
The background of this.
I was recently re-visiting the book BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design by Francois Levy, when I stumble upon a chapter named “BIM for the rest of us”, and that triggered a sequences of thoughts that eventually took the shape of this Manifesto.
The phrase BIM for the rest of us, expresses unintentionally one of my long standing beliefs: Building Digital Design without having ties to an exclusive software brand or file format; some sort of BIM by all means instead of BIM by prescription.
I may not be alone in this experience: not every project has every discipline modelled, not everyone is using the same software as you are, and not everyone is working live in a “cloud hosted multi disciplinary model”. Then what? Should we “throw the baby out with the bathwater”? I think not. I think we can still create quantifiable value by using different platforms and collaborating within the spirit of a Integrated Design.
It may not be perfect, and not even complete. But it is how I see it at this time: Nov 2018.
If you have any comments, please let me know on the comment area below, I really want know your opinions on it.