With the
main focus on promoting new features and capabilities of Autodesk products for
architects, engineers and contractors (in particular in the realm of BIM), the
AU also included a series of seminars and innovation forums that dealt with BIM
culture, process and implementation strategies in practice.
I’ve
predominantly been attending these less technical and more management oriented sessions
in order to investigate BIM directions globally. I heard from other Design
Technology leaders about the progress they are making and the challenges they
are facing in the transition from CAD to BIM.
Overall my
impression was that the problems outside Australia are very much the same we
face here. Even further, I got the impression that Australia is actually on par
if not ahead of other countries when it comes to the BIM implementation effort
across our industry. The reasons for
this are as follows:
