I attempted to do the survey, but was kicked out after the second question where I admitted to billing less than $1,000,000 annually. At one time, 75% of the licensed architects were in firms of 5 or less employees like us. I assume that size firm would bill at less than a million a year too. So, is BIM only for the 25% in big firms? Maybe BIM is only beneficial on really large projects and our size firms don't do those. One thing I have noticed is the process is about the same on $100,000, on $1,000,000, and on $10,000,000 projects. You deal with more stuff but you go through the same process as project size goes up. Interesting. I wonder if Autodesk agrees that 75% of the architects don't need BIM? Their projects are too simple for the AIA to need their input on this survey of BIM in Architecture. That seems to be the implication here.
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Darrel Odom AIA, LEED AP
President
Odom Peckham Architecture, Inc.
Little Rock AR
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-09-2015 13:02
From: Brian Skripac
Subject: BIM on Complex Building Projects Survey
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