ABSTRACT
BIM fits a well-established pattern known to business scholars as a disruptive innovation. 1 As a technology, BIM has created entirely new “value networks” – a combination of capabilities and expectations – for the design process. In the same way that the cellular phone disrupted fixed-line telephony, the “disrupted” is not just CAD documentation, but more so the means by which design is created, delivered, collaborated, and extended. The attitudes and capacities presented in this book, be it case study, technological plug-in, academic speculation, or that of a seasoned practitioner, are a learned reflection on where the discipline at large currently stands with BIM and the transitional phase of technology it presents. As a whole, these projects have been made different (and arguably better) by their undertakings with information model innovation.
