Beyond Business as Usual: BIM and the Future of Public Works
POWER: Infrastructure in America, Temple Hoyne Buell Center, August 14, 2020
POWER: Infrastructure in America, Temple Hoyne Buell Center, August 14, 2020
The managerial persistence of Building Information Modeling (BIM), and indeed, its role in remote digital collaboration and uninterrupted business operations, resonates all too acutely with the present reality of a pandemic-stricken, remotely working world. BIM is business as usual is increasingly received as a given, with renewed technological faith. Yet even as digital ways of working preserve existing modes of productivity, the world finds itself at a critical inflection point of deep, intersecting crises and compounding uncertainty.
What is BIM’s place in this uncertain future? Its inevitable proliferation as major organizational force for public works may either continue to contribute to business as usual logics of large-firm capital, or—and one urgently hopes this is the case—be reconfigured by skilled professionals everywhere, toward a just transition of infrastructure across the planet.
What is BIM’s place in this uncertain future? Its inevitable proliferation as major organizational force for public works may either continue to contribute to business as usual logics of large-firm capital, or—and one urgently hopes this is the case—be reconfigured by skilled professionals everywhere, toward a just transition of infrastructure across the planet.
