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6 Barriers to BIM Adoption in the Housing Industry

Pro Builder

Cost Cutting and Risk Avoidance . The current environment is challenging for several reasons: . As a result, fewer funds are available to invest in digital innovation , and many businesses are unwilling to take risks in this environment. BIM adoption means moving some tasks and processes to a digital environment.

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Autodesk and AWS are Helping Construction Firms Gain Useful Insights from Their Data 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

And in today’s competitive and uncertain environment, getting your hands on the correct information at the right time is more critical than ever. This allows you to automatically flag safety issues or areas of non-compliance, thus reducing project risk.

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Arrogance or ignorance?

DebunkTheBIM

Can you relate to the sentence:" we'll give you CAD files so that SHOULD reduce your work by half"? Savy CAD managers learned to deal with these issues and many company manuals had systems and processes in place. Even the majority of marketing people knew not to make frivolous delivery promises based on existing CAD data.

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Talent and Tech: The Keys to Unlocking Prefabrication Success 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

In the race to meet surging construction demand and reduce risk, the industry is turning to innovative solutions such as prefabrication and modular construction to increase productivity and protect margins. While it's true that prefab enables you to build a structure in a more controlled environment (i.e.,

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International design firm RKD uses Autodesk Construction Cloud to Drive Innovation, Harness Collaboration, and Adapt Agile Workflows

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Through a mix of one-to-one sessions, small project group training, and wider office continuous process development courses (CPDs), delivered by RKD’s BIM Manager, the organisation has overcome many of the challenges that come with changing long-established workflows and integrating them into a different environment. Reaping the Rewards.

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

DebunkTheBIM

I state with conviction that the people I worked with in the late eighties and early nineties who operated early CAD packages (including DOS based AutoCAD) used the tools to better effect than the ones nowadays sitting in front of hispec-gaming machines armed with smart software. Expectations and budgets got scarily out of synch.

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Level Up Design and Coordination Workflows with Accessible Reality Capture 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

For starters, you’re dealing with an old structure without CAD files and limited documentation. feel that time constraints and urgency present the greatest risk to decision-making. . It’s an exciting project, but it also comes with a host of challenges. It’s no wonder 53% of contractors in the U.S.

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