At last some European based research on the adoption of BIM for the skeptics. McGraw Hill Construction recently published their 2010 Smart Market Research Report: “The Business Value of BIM in Europe: Getting Building Information Modelling to the Bottom Line in the United Kingdom, France and Germany” Download a copy…

Our construction industry is in crises, and yet key industry players remain blissfully unaware, or disinterested, in developments taking place in other countries around the world, where the industry are facing up to meet similar challenges. If anyone is willing to pull their head out of the sand of recession…

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.” Stewart Brand. There is a global trend to working in BIM, that has been developing for about 20 years, but has really come into it’s own in the last 5 years.…

“... it’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change...”. Charles Darwin Architects are in danger of making themselves more irrelevant by ignoring very real developments in technology, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), as the new paradigm for…

“...the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results...” Albert Einstein The days of large practices with all resources in-house, are over in Ireland, and if our recent experience has taught us anything, it’s that the model of creating large inefficient and…