Believe it or not, BIM was created more than 30 years ago. In fact, it’s been evolving into what we know it as for closer to 40 years. The term “Building Information Model” was first documented in English in a paper by van Nederveen and Tolman (1992), from TU Delft in the Netherlands.
There were several key experts involved in the creation of this program:
Chuck Eastman (then at CMU, now at Georgia Tech)
Tom Maver at Strathclyde University
Arto Kiviniemi in Finland (now at Salford University)
John Mitchell and Robin Drogemuller (QUT) in Australia.
Even now, these same researchers are working toward improving the system. Even among those that are happy with the way things are while using BIM, the goal is to continue to move forward, making it better and better.
However, the terms 'Building Information Model' and 'Building Information Modeling' (including the acronym "BIM") did not become popularly used until 2002. In year 2002, Autodesk released a white paper entitled "Building Information Modeling," and other software vendors also started to assert their involvement in the field. By hosting contributions from Autodesk, Bentley Systems and Graphisoft, plus other industry observers.
In 2003, Jerry Laiserin (Godfather of BIM) helped popularize and standardize the term as a common name for the digital representation of the building process. Facilitating exchange and interoperability of information in digital format had previously been offered under differing terminology by Graphisoft as "Virtual Building", Bentley Systems as "Integrated Project Models", and by Autodesk or Vectorworks as "Building Information Modeling".
Since, 2003 BIM gain pace and its growing like anything.
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