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BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice
"Ready or not, it’s high time to make BIM a part of your practice, or at least your vocabulary, and this book has as much to offer beginners as it does seasoned users of building information modeling software."—Chicago Architect 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
Effective learning strategies for fully understanding BIM software and its use 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.
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
Effective learning strategies for fully understanding BIM software and its use 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.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 10, 2011
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July 6, 2018
Overall the book brings up great points, but with a title that includes "Strategies for Architectural Practice" I was hoping for more implementation strategies and more of the "how to" and less of the "why you should". This book includes a lot of real-world examples and interviews with professionals within the industry that have been using BIM for a while.
We have recently begun using Revit in our Architectural office, but we still draft a lot in AutoCAD and I was hoping this book would give me enough information and motivation to fully convert our office to using Revit and include more "best practices" information on managing our own side of things.
It's an interesting read and has a lot of information to convince you why you should be using BIM and what BIM really is, however I felt the book was a little too fluffy and didn't include enough of the specific information that I was hoping to find.
We have recently begun using Revit in our Architectural office, but we still draft a lot in AutoCAD and I was hoping this book would give me enough information and motivation to fully convert our office to using Revit and include more "best practices" information on managing our own side of things.
It's an interesting read and has a lot of information to convince you why you should be using BIM and what BIM really is, however I felt the book was a little too fluffy and didn't include enough of the specific information that I was hoping to find.
February 27, 2012
The entire A/E/C industry is in the midst of a transformation. The roles, processes, responsibilities, deliverables, and interaction between architects, engineers, construction professionals, and their clients are being forced into more complex and integrated relationships. This revolution among interrelated professions has not yet seen a group fully take charge of the movement and lead the others into the next paradigm of building design and construction.
Although this resource is specifically directed at BIM and Integrated Design in the A/E/C industry, it is really a comprehensive manual on “change management” within professional service firms. Despite some technological glitches with current BIM technologies, the real challenges for design teams are the retooling of the design process into a holistic progression and the restructuring of the hierarchy of human interactions required to make it successful. New skill sets are required for top project managers right down to the entry-level software operators.
Deutsch’s book is a comprehensive practice-based (people-based) guide to where the industry as a whole is going now, not a technology-heavy manual on CAD-to-BIM upgrades.
There are no excuses for being left behind…..This book needs to be on the shelf of every A/E firm.
Although this resource is specifically directed at BIM and Integrated Design in the A/E/C industry, it is really a comprehensive manual on “change management” within professional service firms. Despite some technological glitches with current BIM technologies, the real challenges for design teams are the retooling of the design process into a holistic progression and the restructuring of the hierarchy of human interactions required to make it successful. New skill sets are required for top project managers right down to the entry-level software operators.
Deutsch’s book is a comprehensive practice-based (people-based) guide to where the industry as a whole is going now, not a technology-heavy manual on CAD-to-BIM upgrades.
There are no excuses for being left behind…..This book needs to be on the shelf of every A/E firm.
September 25, 2011
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