Understanding BIM: The Past, Present and Future

by Jonathan Ingram

Understanding BIM presents the story of Building Information Modelling, an ever evolving and disruptive technology that has transformed the methodologies of the global construction industry. Written by the 2016 Prince Philip Gold Medal winner, Jonathan Ingram, it provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages its effective use can provide to a project team. Ingram, who pioneered the system heralding the BIM revolution, provides unrivalled access to case material and relevance to the current generation of BIM masters. With hundreds of colour images and illustrations showing the breadth and power of BIM, the book Professionals and students in any field where the inter-disciplinary aspects of BIM are in operation will benefit from Ingram’s insights. This book is an authoritative account of and reference on BIM for anyone wanting to understand its history, theory, application and potential future developments.

288 pages, Paperback

Published July 27, 2020

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Recommended if you want to understand the historical roots of BIM. The author details the origins of the BIM concept in modern software from his authored SONATA. Sometimes sounding autobiographical but understandable when you consider the guy wrote an entire BIM (BOM at the time) alone, an effort that ordinarily should take huge software development teams. The third part on Evolution of BIM is very insightful and anyone intending to venture into BIM software development for the future should read it.