'The AEC industry recently has been incorporating an emerging combination of technology and process known as Building Information Modeling, or BIM for short. When compared to the more traditional approach for designing and building projects, BIM offers many potential advantages in the areas of collaboration, cost and schedule reduction. BIM-delivered projects rely heavily on discipline-based digital models.

Unlike the drawing-centric approach used by the traditional delivery process, BIM project participants will be able to access these digital models throughout the process without having to wait until paper drawings are produced and delivered. This means that a multi-discipline view of the project can be shared with all participants early in the process and continuously throughout the design and construction. Experience shows that collaborating in this fashion produces great results that are not possible by using drawings alone...'