The Old Order Changeth Yielding Place to the New: Think Big; Think BIM!
Since time immemorial, civilization has progressed steadily by following a single principle—the principle of change. This change has, at times been rather sudden, forceful, and violent and at other times, it has worked slowly and steadily so that in the end, the tentacles of the change proved to be too strong to be ignored and avoided. Thus, while the extinction of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric life forms came as a sudden jolt that paved the way for humans to rule the roost on earth, the slow and steady change brought about by the spirit of science helped us to shed the ignorance of a life that was clouded by religious indoctrination. Although religion has not deserted us completely nor have we been rid of myth and superstition, yet it has ceased to exert the same asphyxiating influence on human beings as it did centuries ago. Building Information Modeling , or BIM in short, has had a similar impact in the world of architecture and construction. Slowly and steadily it h...