Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become a revolutionary and new method of drafting and design in the recent past. BIM has allowed for a more accurate cost efficient method of transmitting engineering and architectural concepts to a physical infrastructure. Programs such as AutoCAD by Autodesk has allowed millions to design with more accuracy and efficiency than ever before. The transferring of these plans and blueprints (that are no longer blue without the use of ammonia-based copiers) can be made digitally and transferred immediately to another computer. This wide availability of drafting and design allows more people to communicate their designs on to paper so that they may build and construct the things they want. In terms of owners and facility managers, they are now able to input their own design ideas into their business. Businesses can now cut out the middle man and expand or design their company as they see fit. (as long as it follows code) This allows them to save money from paying designers and architectural firms to design it for them. BIM allows anyone to easily generate designs of their choosing. This new form of design also allows for a higher integration of teamwork within a corporation. More people with access to BIM programs are now able to come together and discuss ideas and concepts that can help build the corporation physically.
Although I think that there can be many problems with this sort of access. Not everything has a standard yet and if there is a standard, they may not know about it or know how to follow it. Standards have become more complicated but has allowed the community to be able to understand each other's designs with the appropriate information attached.
As we've seen in history, BIM has taken a huge roll in the design industry. But with companies such as AutoCAD, drafters had obsolete and unused. Hand drafting is now an ancient art that only shows up in references (such as blueprints). This type of advancement in technology could make design easier but at the same time make the jobs of others harder or lead into unemployment. Unemployment has become a large topic in this course where the easier a task can be done, the less people are needed to accomplish that task. However, I believe with the advancement of technology, there will be more jobs available as the world expands and more design and construction will take place all over the world. Less people are needed to design and build, and as a result the whole process will increase in speed with less required resources. But as the industry expands, more specialized people will be needed to match the increasing amount of industry.
For example, a concept that I had was that there might be a few hundred hand drafters to design one building in 20 years, and they were all removed due to the BIM programs. But as BIM grows in popularity and efficiency, more CAD experienced workers will be needed to design 10 buildings in 20 years. I believe that the growth of this industry will be exponential and more people will be needed to fulfill key rolls needed for the industry to expand. Not only will BIM programs allow for more building design, BIM can also allow designers to build more complicated things. Owners and managers can add things that would deem crazy, but possible with modern BIM programs. One example of this would be the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA.
References:
http://autodesk.typepad.com/businessofbim/2013/12/the-people-part-of-bim-adoption.html
http://synergiscadblog.com/2014/04/01/introduction-to-multi-discipline-collaboration-in-revit/
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