Designers becoming Expert Users

An important point, when planning a project, is that the skillsets of the users may be the real driver of success. Software skills by the senior experts helps too. Understanding the database may be as important as understanding the data. Its a bit of a hurdle that most senior professionals will have as much of a learning curve as anyone. Its not CAD anymore.

At a recent RevitDC meeting, Kimon Onuma (Onuma Software) said,
“Its collaboration by experts, not so much the software.”

Now if we can build the skillsets of the best users to match the tools and databases, we can really rock the world.

I have been convinced for years: “How the Data is collected, processed stored and retrieved will change this game.” BIM is light years from CAD. CAD is not about data, its just a drawing. Going forward, I can see CAD as an inconvenient precursor to the building information model.

Thinker/architect Randy Deutsch has this entry on his blog about Building Information Modeling and its application, called BIM challenge of the new Decade Its a good summary of where the information technology of building is in January 2010.