The Associated General Contractors BIM Forum is a wild success, attracting 1,600members in less than three years fromall areas of building design and construction.There is no cost to join, but that’s not whymembership is increasing daily, at a rate of30% each year. The forum is so popular becauseit is considered the best place for collaborationand collective action to relieve theaches and achieve the potential gains of theparadigm shift to building-information-modeling-enabled design and construction.
There are more non-AGC members thanAGC members, says John Tocci, chief enablingofficer of Tocci Building Cos., Woburn, Mass.,and chairman of the forum. “The forum hasemerged as such an enabling feature of thecontinuing transformation of the industry,” saysTocci. Its influence is so great that AGC had toform a separate council for it, with its own governance.