This paper argues for the adoption of a single, detailed, component-based, Building Information Model as a strategy for handling all design and construction information about a building at any stage of design. Using the recladding efforts for the Aronoff Center for Design and Art at the University of Cincinnati as a backdrop, the paper frames current issues that plague the building design and construction industry then illustrates how a single, parametrically driven, component-based model can reunite the fragmented industry and deal with vast amount of information that accretes during the design-construction process. The paper also describes how the detailed, comprehensive, single model paradigm opens the possibility of more sophisticated structural or energy modeling and analysis taking into account contributions of interior walls, mechanical systems etc. to overall structural stability, thermal mass, etc. The paper concludes with implications to practice in the current splintered AEC industry and a candid discussion about obstacles and limitations.
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