First comes “lonely” BIM, when a firm begins to tool up for building-information-modeling-enabled projects. Then comes “social” BIM, when a firm collaborates with other firms using BIM. Next comes “intimate” BIM, when the owner, architect and contractor share risk and reward contractually via BIM-enabled integrated project delivery. Finally, when work gets heavenly, there is “cheruBIM.”
These are the four stages of BIM, at least according to one builder and one architect. The first two stages were coined a while back by John Tocci, who also calls himself the chief enabling officer of Tocci Building Cos., Woburn, Mass. The second two stages were coined by Tocci and Scott Simpson, managing director of the Cambridge, Mass., office of Kling Stubbins, on Nov. 18, at BuildBoston, during their joint presentation on the duo’s first intimate-BIM job, a 55,000-sq-ft office fit-up for BIM vendor Autodesk Inc.’s East Coast headquarters in Waltham, Mass.