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Looking beyond BIM to Business Information

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There is an interesting Blog that I follow called AEC Bytes authored by Lachmi Khemlani. In a recent guest article written by Michael Tardif, Director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems at Grunley Construction Company, Inc. discusses the rationale for the agcXML standard which was developed by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) in collaboration with NIBS as a standard to support the exchange of business information during design and construction. Khemlani states that, “It is important because dramatically improving productivity and efficiency in the building industry cannot be achieved through BIM alone -- we need to look beyond the building-specific and project-specific information that can be compiled in a BIM model to the entire information flow, workflow, and business processes needed to create and sustain the built environment”. 

The article does a great job of making the case for the development and adoption of standards that facilitate the easy exchange of building and project information are essential to increasing the overall productivity in the industry. We will be looking at incorporating these standards into our applications. This link will connect you to the article. http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2009/issue_49.html