Reviewing the First Annual BIM Awards Program
In May of 2005, the Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) Knowledge Community selected six projects as winners of the first annual Building Information Model Awards. Twenty-two submissions were evaluated based on:
• Achieving quantifiable benefits in cost, schedule, or quality
• Using interoperability between software applications
• Supporting effective team collaboration
• “Moving the ball forward” in terms of process change
• Producing cultural change
• Achieving “return on value,” i.e., value achieved for the project divided by value expended in the effort.
The projects, have been available online, for members to review since that time. Looking back two years, it is important to ask how the profession has progressed, from the point in time that these projects illustrate, and are architects content with that progress? Relevant question might include:
• Achieving quantifiable benefits in cost, schedule, or quality
• Using interoperability between software applications
• Supporting effective team collaboration
• “Moving the ball forward” in terms of process change
• Producing cultural change
• Achieving “return on value,” i.e., value achieved for the project divided by value expended in the effort.
The projects, have been available online, for members to review since that time. Looking back two years, it is important to ask how the profession has progressed, from the point in time that these projects illustrate, and are architects content with that progress? Relevant question might include:
- Do these projects still illustrate relevant technology trends, outcomes and changes in the practice in architecture that apply to the industry today?
- Do these projects continue to define how BIM can elevate and expand the practice of architecture?
- Are the criteria being used to evaluate theses projects, still relevant?
- Has technology enriched the collaborative experience?
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