在最近的许多演讲中接受有关构建信息建模工具的许多演讲Bimforumconference in Dallas is to see first-hand the velocity of change arriving on construction jobsites, along with the upward move of the BIM adoption curve each year.

的负责人Chris Heger(特纳构造tion, talked through how BIM tools are changing the pace of construction with some keynote examples among many. Modeling tools give his team the ability to create construction patterns and then mine for repeatable patterns, or to look for interchangeable parts from one job's similarity to another. Teams then put those parts to re-use on other projects.

What we're seeing in the construction trades, many attendees said, is that BIM is making information a bigger part of the project's supply chain in order to build at faster rates. Big Data is about thinking of the model as the database to mine, other attendees said.

BIMgives Heger's teams the ability to put work in place in much tighter areas, because they're "synchronizing men and machines faster than ever. We're pushing the edge of fatigue," he added. On some jobs with BIM integration, the firm is erecting steel at twice the normal rate. Project teams are also saving more information that was once tossed away, creating information supply chains that compress time.

Contrast the quickening pace with larger gains in networking speeds, sensors and processors that can render files on a jobsite and it's easy to see why paradigm shift is a hot term again, along with Gigabit Ethernet. ENR breaks down some of the big ideas from the event:

Networking, Sensors and AR

Three big trends will make Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality tools more common with collaboration, says James Benham, founder of software development and consulting firm JBKnowledge (which specializes in AR and VR with apps such asSmartReality）。

First, pay attention to the growth in fiber to the home, which promises to bring upstream and downstream speeds of 1 gigabit per second to homes via gigabit ethernet and gigabit internet. From there, it's not a big leap to add speeds like that to a jobsite. But it is early in the rollout of gigabit internet networking speeds.

Still, South Korea, a leader in wireless networking technology, has succesfully tested 5G networks, he continued, and "that's a really big deal." Benham cited estimates that 5G (and by that he means true 5G) will be in North America by 2018. The ability to deploy gigabit speeds of data transfer on a smart phone will transform how workers use them on jobsites.

其次，处理器正在迅速发展，为iPad和其他平板电脑带来了主要的电源，这将帮助它们在平板电脑上呈现更大的型号，“还有大型的机械材料，”他打趣道。第三，便宜的传感器在这里，这里，这里。新利18备用网址VR工具是因为传感器增加了AR应用程序可以呈现多少。

Finally, keep an eye on quasi-secret projects with AR technology, such as Google's Genie project, details of which大约一年前泄漏,谷歌的Project Tango, which, the site says, is about incorporating 3D motion and depth sensing to applications.

根据网站：“项目探戈设备包含定制的硬件和软件，旨在跟踪设备的完整3D运动，同时创建环境地图。这些传感器允许该设备每秒进行超过2500万的3D测量值，实时更新其位置和方向，将数据组合到周围空间的单个3D模型中。”

Design Intent as a Declining Term

During a Q&A session with attendees, Turner's Heger noted that, as BIM adoption spreads, Design Intent is not a term that he hears as often as he once did. "And I think it's s indicative of what BIM is doing and transforming."

毕竟，在承包商采用BIM之前，他们的工作是采用设计师的3D想法，并使用2D介质来创建该3D对象。他说：“翻译失去了很多。”设计师和承包商之间的设计意图讨论通常是深深的困扰时刻。“这是一次对话，通常会导致成本上涨。借助BIM，该术语[设计意图]消失了。”新利18备用官网登录

贸易承包商，BIM知识和RFP

During a panel discussion, one specialty contractor asked: What makes a trade contractor attractive? Many specialty firms do not have their own BIM departments. How do general contractors wade through this when selecting trade contractors?

Heger noted that he currently only takes RFP responses from trade contractors who work with BIM tools "because it's got to be fair."

Mortensen Construction综合建筑总监Ricardo Khan表示，该公司将可以通过BIM模型进行制造工作的专业承包商高度优先考虑，因为它可以确定工作的坐标。他补充说：“这也与该贸易合作伙伴的信任，团队合作和经验有关。”

时代已经到来

莫滕森（Mortensen）的汗（Khan）指出，该公司已经在收养的BIM难题中工作了16年，并且直到现在看到世代相传的转变与BIM和协作工具之间的跨越。新利18备用网址几年前与工具无奈合作的项目经理现在是负责人，与此同时，他补充说：“我们开始看到文化的转变，因为机构正在培训他们的学生进入劳动力并准备好[对于BIM]。”

Added Heger: "Once you've done it and it works, you'll never go back."

艾琳·乔伊斯（Erin Joyce）is managing editor of ENR and covers technology for the enterprise. Her Twitter handle is @erinjoyce. To read more Twitter coverage of the BIM Forum, check out the#bimforumed井号。