In 2008, the American Institute of Architects released its first BIM contract document—AIA E202 Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit—which outlined five “levels of development” (LOD 100-500) ...

Years ago, GS&P’s architects, engineers and interior designers started talking about the many benefits of transitioning from 2D modeling to 3D building information modeling (BIM). These days, BIM is ...

The problem with building information modeling (BIM) has always been a lack of reality. On the computer screen, even a just-hatched BIM model can look plenty real, thanks to productivity-enhancing ...

Contractors have no way of knowing whether they can rely on the designer's LOD 300 information for layout in the field, for example. For the LOD spec, "we tried to be specific per element, regarding ...

In my job as BIM Manager for the Construction Piping Services department at Victaulic, I work with many contractors who know all there is to know about Building Information Modeling (BIM) … and I work ...