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The Constructor that was not meant to be.

DebunkTheBIM

When VICO picked up Constructor about 5 years ago, it elected to upscale the reasonably capable but also architect biased modelling software into a complicated construction suite. Get rid of the architectural baggage Archicad was weighed down with, and make Constructor a stand alone, construction focused, modelling package.

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The chicken and the egg.Are software developers supposed to lead an industry or just serve it?

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I observed a phenomena: over the years the number of users of 3D (model) based software in AEC has raised dramatically while their average skill level dropped tragically. Archicad did it for an entire decade through the nineties; Presently, both packages and many more are all plodding along route 2.

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The Caterpillar challenge – Make BIM and the global AEC cool!

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The whole ‘BIM thing’ has been trying to change this trend, entice the elite of the young thinkers, the cream of the technology developers and together shake the industry through innovation into a new, cool force to reckon with. Not only will this model grow into a global industry success, it would make it cool for young and old too!

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