Structural BIM Engineers Gear Up for Digital Transition

摘要

For larger structural engineers, the transition to digital, 3D building information modeling is perplexing, awkward and demanding. For smaller firms with fewer resources, the switch is downright angst-ridden. But no matter the size, BIM experts at the 2007 Structures Conference advised firms that they need to gear up for the transition or they will be left out in the cold. "I would start now," says Howard W. Ashcraft, a construction technology lawyer with Hanson Bridgett Marcus Vlahos Rudy LLP, San Francisco. Firms that cannot offer BIM deliverables will soon be at a competitive disadvantage, he warns.