I picked up this book a couple years ago as I was entering the world of BIM in my professional life. I work for a major construction firm in the United States. This book provided me with a very through overview of BIM. A few points of interest:
1. One of my favorite sections is right at the beginning. It goes through the history of building going back centuries to outline how the building process has become so adversarial and somewhat dysfunctional. Solving this dysfunction is one of the major selling points of using BIM, and it was very interesting to see how we got to where we are today in the industry.
2. This book was published back in 2008, and as we all know, technology moves at a swift pace these days. So some of the references are a bit outdated. However, I still use this as a reference, as the information on the basic concepts and processes are still useful.
3. An architect wrote this book, and it is written more from the design perspective than from the construction perspective. If you work on the construction side like I do, I would highly recommend
BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows
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