About the author  ⁄ Dr. Kristopher Dane

Dr. Kristopher Dane is Vice President and Director of Digital Design with Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. and member of the Joint SEI-CASE Committee on Digital Design (formerly BIM). (kdane@thorntontomasetti.com)

As early as 1962, Douglas Englehart presaged BIM as “an evermore-detailed, interlinked structure, which represents the maturing thought behind the actual design.” Since this early vision, building designers have wholeheartedly adopted building information modeling (BIM), software-based design, and 3-D modeling. While BIM adoption has been praised for bringing efficiency to the construction process and benefits in coordination, it has also placed a new set of pressures on the structural designer.

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