Successful companies that are on the “cutting edge” of BIM technology had to first be on the “cutting edge” of creating a collaborative culture.
Steve Watt | CEO WinEstimator Inc
In other words, do design firms and contractors view themselves as partners trying to work together to secure large project opportunities?
Or do they want to continue to work in the traditional design, bid, build process, often times leading to an adversarial relationship between architect and contractor?
The Story Behind the Story
Tom Massey, Regional Account Manager for WinEstimator emailed this to me on Wednesday.
Hi Dan,
A few weeks back we had a series of general contractors nationwide in turmoil, one right after another. All the issues had the same root problem too.
They had invested in Revit (some bought a few other systems too) and gave a title of “BIM Manager” to one of their people.
This being done was a good step forward but in all cases very limited. The rest of the company were resistant to changing their internal culture to respond to work the BIM Manager was starting to go after.
Our president, Steve Watt, frustrated with what he saw with these struggling teams, wrote this article to them, but really to the full construction industry.
We hope it is constructive to the industries ongoing dialog.
Today I found that WinEstimator posted their story on their website also.
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