Reading Response

Jordani’s “BIM: A Healthy Disruption to a Fragmented and Broken Process” and Bedrick and Rinella’s “Technology, Process, Improvement, and Culture Change” share the central theme of the importance of BIMs integration into today’s practices.  Jordani explains that BIM is a tool requiring collaboration between all stakeholders in a project.  He expresses that this is a positive step forward for the field of architecture that will result in a more efficient process as well as products of superior quality.  Project participants will have roles that are much more interwoven, increasing the level of communication.

Bedrick and Rinella strive to encourage those in the field to adapt to the BIM technology.  They explain that this step forward, though it may prove challenging, will pay off in the long run not only for the firm but for the profession and “quality of life on the planet.”  Bedrick and Rinella explain that BIM is a tool that is grounded in simultaneity. For instance, cost may be monitored alongside a design’s development.   This eliminates a great deal of backtracking, deciding which cost should be cut, and therefore hindering the original design.

BIM is revolutionary not only on a micro level of the intricacies of the program, but also on the macro scale of how different industries work together. The possibilities presented by these new tools are incredible. The only difficulty lies in convincing all parties to take part.