Dean B. Thomson and Ryan G. Miner, Fabyanske Westra Hart & Thomson, Minneapolis

BIM: Contractural Risks are Changing with Technology

Owners are demanding that complex projects be completed more quickly and cheaply. These demands, plus a desire to avoid claims, have led designers to think beyond two-dimensional blueprints and to develop three-dimensional building information modeling (BIM). The concept is relatively simple, yet revolutionary. The theory is that if every piece of data required to design and construct a project were entered and developed within a single online system, you could construct the project in the virtual world first.