Will BIM actually eliminate change orders?
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RSS FeedYour contention is that BIM will eliminate change orders. Is this an expected by-product of BIM, or a hoped-for one?
Andrew Denyer, VJ Associates
Dennis Neeley, AIA, Product Director, Reed Construction Data: There are fundamentally two types of change orders: 1) a decision to do something different than originally planned, make a room 2’ bigger, these will still happen, and 2) correct a conflict, the duct runs into the beam. It is this second category that BIM is helping to eliminate. I was at a seminar last year and three major construction companies made presentations and each had completed projects with 0 change orders for onsite conflicts. This is amazing, unbelievable, and yet true.
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