By Staci Matlock, ConnectPress Staff Writer

Building Information Modeling promises to ease data sharing, save money and create better coordination among AECO teams. It is a “digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility,” that fosters collaboration by a broad range of professionals involved with different phases of a building, according to The National Building Information Model Standard Project Committee.

What BIM still lacks, according to experts, is a common foundation, an open language and standard for reliably sharing data and building models.

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