Proto-Building: To BIM is to Build
John Tobin, Principal, Einhorn Yaffee Prescott Architecture & Engineering PC

AECbytes "Building the Future" Article
May 28, 2008

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Article Summary

In this article, John Tobin, who spearheads the BIM implementation for EYP’s five A/E offices, suggests that even though many designers continue to use BIM to produce drawings, we would be better served by looking beyond using BIM merely as a more powerful representation tool, and instead to treat the models we create as “proto-buildings”—a term he has coined as in the word “prototype,” which suggests something that is a first version of an entity which will later be replicated. He also presents the current state and the likely future trajectory of BIM by looking at it as three different generations, which he calls BIM 1.0, BIM 2.0, and BIM 3.0.

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