BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
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The first book devoted to the subject of how BIM affects individuals and organizations working within the ever-changing construction industry, BIM and Integrated Design discusses the implementation of building information modeling software as a cultural process with a focus on the technology's impact and transformative effect—both potentially disruptive and liberating—on the social, psychological, and practical aspects of the workplace.
BIM and Integrated Design answers the questions that BIM poses to the firm that adopts it. Through thorough research and a series of case study interviews with industry leaders—and leaders in the making out from behind the monitor—BIM and Integrated Design helps you learn:
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Effective learning strategies for fully understanding BIM software and its use
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Key points about integrated design to help you promote the process to owners and your team
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How BIM changes not only the technology, process, and delivery, but also the leadership playing field
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How to become a more effective leader no matter where you find yourself in the organization or on the project team
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How the introduction of BIM into the workforce has significant education, recruitment, and training implications
Covering all of the human issues brought about or exacerbated by the advent of BIM into the architecture workplace, profession, and industry, BIM and Integrated Design shows how to overcome real and perceived barriers to its use.
--This text refers to the hardcover edition.From the Back Cover
The first book devoted to the subject of how BIM affects individuals and organizations working within the ever-changing construction industry, BIM and Integrated Design discusses the implementation of building information modeling software as a cultural process with a focus on the technology's impact and transformative effect―both potentially disruptive and liberating―on the social, psychological, and practical aspects of the workplace.
BIM and Integrated Design answers the questions that BIM poses to the firm that adopts it. Through thorough research and a series of case study interviews with industry leaders―and leaders in the making out from behind the monitor―BIM and Integrated Design helps you learn:
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Effective learning strategies for fully understanding BIM software and its use
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Key points about integrated design to help you promote the process to owners and your team
-
How BIM changes not only the technology, process, and delivery, but also the leadership playing field
-
How to become a more effective leader no matter where you find yourself in the organization or on the project team
-
How the introduction of BIM into the workforce has significant education, recruitment, and training implications
Covering all of the human issues brought about or exacerbated by the advent of BIM into the architecture workplace, profession, and industry, BIM and Integrated Design shows how to overcome real and perceived barriers to its use.
--This text refers to the hardcover edition.About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B005J576GC
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (August 15, 2011)
- Publication date : August 15, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 5255 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 272 pages
- Lending : Enabled
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Many of the diagrams and thoughts represent current industry best thinking. And they have been made very clearly - potentially quite helpful for re-use in making presentations, in training or in communicating with your company management. Whether you are a beginner or expert, an owner, architect, contractor, or anyone contemplating how to advance Building Information Modeling in your organization - I think you'll benefit from reading BIM and Integrated Design - a wonderful text book `how to' manual for the `soft' side of BIM. Which might just be the `hard' part.
The book does not provide futile, one-size-fits-all recipes or answers. Instead, it guides you through the most important questions/topics to ponder/work on. Furthermore, it distills several years' worth of content from some of the best online resources, implementation practices and leaders opinions. It is a high level introduction to BIM and Integrated Design best suited for decision makers. However, it is also a great introduction for more technically oriented beginners who may wonder "Why?"
It would be great to follow this book up with a more detailed version that covered more specific but also more inclusive technology. However, the size and effort would grow exponentially and the result would have a more finite useful life. Rather, this book will encourage you to plan and conceive new and better ways to work. Don't expect simple, static reading, but more of a reference material to revisit more than once.
Finally, this book asserts that it is people who matter most, not technology. You might buy this book looking for software tips and tricks, and it does contain a few indirectly. However, you will find something even more important: How to start to re-invent yourself and your practice, not only to survive but to thrive and succeed. This can easily become the best investment you make in yourself this year.
Sound familiar?
Moving away from CAD to BIM (Building Information Modeling) software takes courage. It takes great leaps of faith that BIM will actually help your firm be more efficient. More accurate. More profitable.
If you are one of the many architects ready to take the leap to BIM adoption, but are not quite sure how or when to do it, Randy Deutsch, AIA, LEED AP has written a book for you.
Despite its technical sounding title, BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice is much more about people and your firm's culture than it is about the software. He leaves the business implications, technical requirements, tips and tricks to other authors and discusses, in great depth, how BIM will directly affect your firm... in both good and, possibly, bad ways.
The book is loaded case studies and conversations with leaders in the profession. As an Entrepreneur Architect constantly experimenting with the idea of taking back control and responsibility of the complete design and construction process, the sections dedicated to how BIM and Integrated Design may usher in the return of the Master Builder were especially interesting to me.
Whether you are fully BIM-friendly or waiting for your expensive "shelfware" to load itself on to your server, BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice should be added to your Amazon Wish List.