Letters & comment

摘要

As chair of CIBSE's BIM steering group I was interested in Peter Trebilcock's article. I won't quibble with the article's analysis and I wholeheartedly support its recommendations, but Peter overlooks one important elephant in the room. MEP is the only stream of construction where designers and installers/fabricators typically use different BIM platforms. Consultants work predominantly in Revit, the BIM tool most used by architects, structural and services engineers and building trades, while MEP contractors still often prefer CADmep, because it is superior in fabrication and installation. While CADmep affords the geometrical exactness central to Peter's thesis, it does not support Level 2 BIM - the destination of the wider industry which offers far bigger "wins" for our clients and other players.