I think that some ways BIM could become even more useful would be the integration of the walk tool that allows a virtual tour of the building with emerging virtual reality software, such as Oculus Rift or Microsoft's Hololens. I think this could be a really great tool for showcasing plans to a client, in that it would physically allow them the client to interact with a building that doesn't even exist yet. I definitely think this is further down the line than interface improvements or other changes that make the software easier to use, but hopefully will happen soon.
Kevin- I think that owner integration with the model could be interesting, but I see that more as a "read-only" type of exchange. An owner may very well want to take an active role in the project design, but they hired the architects and engineers to design the project for a reason- they are specialists in Revit and the owner mucking around in the model makes me nervous that they might mess something up and lead to costly mistakes. Of course, if an owner goes into a design firm with a conceptual model already in Revit, that may save some time for the drafting engineers when making the full model.
Ami- You mentioned a 2007 report that explored the reduction in manual effort needed to draft plans and expect to see further reduction in the future. I wonder if Revit and other BIM software will become so powerful that one person can perform all the drafting on their own and trust the software to do the rest. At the moment, lots of people are needed across a variety of disciplines with some sort of project manager or coordinator to run the whole show, but in the future what if the software itself could act in a supervising position? If that happened, we would see a further employee reduction, much as Professor Mitchell discussed when computer drafting first became mainstream several decades ago.
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