8.4. BIM and the New Team

BIM encourages the formation of new teams in the industry. In the form of more integrated, all-in-one shops and the creation of individual project-driven teams, BIM will continue to drive the industry to refine the way it works. Building information modeling as a technology has the ability to transform our industry and the future of other industries, such as GIS, accounting, project management, emergency response, GPS, and environmental applications. The fact that there are more and more intelligent models created means there is more information. When this additional information is more effectively shared and linked to other systems, additional savings, and reduction in duplicative work, will be realized. Currently, ...

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