New ways
One of the things that keep puzzling me is how presumed revolutionary solutions like BIM are deployed: almost everything remains firmly entrenched is established conventions and practices. The same old parties -the architect, the contractor, the builder- keep on doing what they've been doing, only more and with the questionable benefit of new technologies (questionable because they don't seem to get the most out of them). This doesn't seem to agree with 21st century tendencies in market and labour models: where's the outsourcing, where are new kinds of services, where is the distribution and combination of expertise? In other areas we see things change drastically through new approaches that complement the new technologies. Don't we need such structural change in the production and operation of the built environment? I've grown old waiting for the change to come from either internal motivation or from external forces but it appears that such sensibilities are not shared with the majority. So, I'm watching how people preach revolution but don't even support evolution; they just promote stagnation.
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