One of the major issues with REVIT in its current format is
its lack of interoperability, linking in with my previous blog post. Too much
copying between applications is going on manually, which uses up the valuable time of
employers.
REVIT, in my opinion, has failed to recognize its importance
after construction. BOMA, a company which analyses building areas and locations
to price them for rent etc has been unable to use BIM applications for their
area details. Energy usage BIM applications, on the whole, still lack the
ability to coordinate with each other, so BIM is not as successful once the
building has been built.
We watched an interesting speech by Bill Allen, titled ‘the
future of BIM will not be BIM’ which raises some interesting points. I agree,
that if BIM fails to develop accordingly with the rate of development of AI and
Robotics then yes, we may no longer be using the term BIM in a few years-time.
But, BIM will not stand still. Huge amounts of money is spent every year
updating REVIT and quite frankly, I can’t see smaller businesses being able to
afford AI and Robotic technology for at least a few decades.
Something which I had never fully considered before is the
changes in construction legality that come with BIM. This is because BIM allows
contractors to have a greater say in design, hence is it still fair that they
can still sue the principle designers for due negligence when they too can
alter the model. This is a question that has still not been resolved and is
another major downfall to BIM.
Comments:
Shuster,
I agree, that this technology development is moving fast and does appear very exciting. However, I am not sure to the extent at which this technology will be adopted. It will take time at first for us to gain trust in this new method of design and even once we are happy with it, I feel design still needs a 'human touch'. The surroundings needs to be considered to design a building that fits but is not identical to those next door. Will this development reduce the amount of innovative building designs that stretch the parameters of design, because everything is being done 'by the book'?
Comments:
Shuster,
I agree, that this technology development is moving fast and does appear very exciting. However, I am not sure to the extent at which this technology will be adopted. It will take time at first for us to gain trust in this new method of design and even once we are happy with it, I feel design still needs a 'human touch'. The surroundings needs to be considered to design a building that fits but is not identical to those next door. Will this development reduce the amount of innovative building designs that stretch the parameters of design, because everything is being done 'by the book'?
Sarah, you raise some good points and I also agreed with "The Future of BIM will not be BIM". To me, it seems like we are at some odd point in time where we have the technology to 3D scan every square inch of a building if we wanted too, but a lot of times the benefits don't outweigh the costs and effort to do so. And I'm not quite sure what the issue is that is holding BIM back. Is it the fact that construction is so far behind in regards to the technology used, where the best 3D model in the world couldn't beat a sheet of paper that tells an iron worker what beam to drop where? Is it fact that AI assisted design hasn't fully taken off yet? What is the missing stepping stone that will propel BIM to the next level?
ReplyDeleteSara,
ReplyDeleteI agree with two of your key issues regarding Revit; the lack of interoperability within itself requires too much time from the users to obtain a desired result, but some of the automatically produced sections could compensate, and some of the recent add-on features are addressing these issues. Also, after construction, there is not much of the Revit model of project, I think that this is one aspect that we should invest on because it changes the way we view the life span of a building and how we go about renovation of previous structure.