zhijing zheng - the current issue with Revit/BIM

"The Issues with REVIT"

Many of the points relate to working practices and habits entrenched within the industry and influenced by the major players who control how projects are developed. They are much bigger than software or hardware problems and much harder to solve, but that doesn’t make them any less real and in many ways it makes them much more fundamental to successfully integrating BIM within architectural practice in general and the construction industry as a whole.

There are four fundamental issues to the successful adoption of Revit in general and in a small architectural practice in particular

1. Short Term Effects

In a marketplace where architectural fees are often cut to the bone and more often than not pushed back and concentrated within the construction phase of projects, this is totally opposed to the pressures exerted by a BIM process, which seeks as much and as detailed information to be decided upon and incorporated within the BIM as early in the process as possible.

The reality is ever growing pressures to minimize the time and expense of producing information at the early project stages, cutting corners and producing wafer thin information – the bare minimum to suffice at every stage of the project. This is hampering BIM absorption within practices, which in itself are making the construction industry in general and the profession in particular less and less efficient. 

2. Cash Flow

Architectural practices are being operated on shoestring budgets in this climate and as such there is no leeway for putting in more effort ahead of the reward on the basis that it will be more efficient for the project as a whole. This is as a result of crippling competition on fees and the resulting low percentage fees being earned on projects. The result – practices forced to work in an inefficient manner to sculpt their effort to match the fee payment stages, as mentioned above, often geared to focus on the later stages of the project where the contractor, not the developer, will pick up the ultimate bill.

3. Technical Infrastructure

This is a very real and growing problem to the adoption of BIM and the take up and development of the use of Revit. The demands placed upon small practices by Software giants such as Autodesk are out of proportion with the returns their products can deliver in the short term. Firstly there is the ever-growing demand on hardware placed by their burgeoning programmed and ever growing packages of products that they insist on bundling together. The raw demands of each new version on storage and processing power is inevitable and at least to a great extent offset by the ever cheaper relative cost of hardware. In addition, particularly with products like Revit which do not permit the “save as last years product” option

4. Opportunities

This is perhaps the most personal and anecdotal of the issues, but we as a firm have found an intense disinterest on the part of medium sized contracting organizations to being involved in construction projects utilizing BIM to ensure that it is run more efficiently.

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Comments:

Maria Raggousis

In maria's post, she talked about the technical issue for using Revit/BIM such as little capability without making new models and can't incorporated the MEP models. All that are technical issues for current condition. However, in order to evaluate software such as Revit/BIM, it is better look at the big picture. All the software have their own shortcoming. There is no software can solve all the issues under current condition. Therefore, in order to better assess Revit/BIM, we need to consider the entire society distribution and the benefits. The current issue with Revit/BIM can be analysis according to the owner's perspective and client's perspectives.

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Ronald Herazo

In Ronald's post, he talked about the future possible problems. In order to analyze the future potential issue with implementation of Revit/BIM, he described the current issue that more and more demand requirement from different industries such as contractors. And then transfer to the future issue such as large scale of upgrading the system and corresponding high cost. Of course, in order to meet the demands, Revit/BIM need to self-development to satisfy the clients. Otherwise, they will loss their potential business. Therefore, the future problem can be the massive and large scale technical interfacing issues.

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Brennan Connolly

In Brennan's post, he mentioned the potential future advantages of BIM and Revit such as how Revit could show the attractive way of the building and surrounding to the clients. Also, BIM program can detect where clashes occur and point them out. Like a said in above comments, it is better connect the techniques to the business. How Revit/BIM benefit the population and the society. It is more tangible to show same data how Revit/BIM will influence the really project.

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