Starting an architecture firm may sprout from one?s love for and interest in the discipline, but running a competitive business requires more than just a tendency to enjoy the work. BIM could be the edge a firm needs in order to stand out from the crowd. There are many ways a firm can make use of BIM to become more profitable on their projects and successful in winning those projects in the first place; read on to find out more about six of them.

Emerson College Los Angeles by Morphosis Architects, which won the AIA's 2015 Technology In Architectural Practice Innovation Awards for its use of BIM. Image © Iwan Baan

Starting an architecture firm may sprout from one?s love for and interest in the discipline, but running a competitive business requires more than just a tendency to enjoy the work. BIM could be the edge a firm needs in order to stand out from the crowd. There are many ways a firm can make use of BIM to become more profitable on their projects and successful in winning those projects in the first place; read on to find out more about six of them.
Using BIM can help many firms to avoid outsourcing processes such as rendering. Image Courtesy of Autodesk

1. Avoiding OutsourcingBIM has been available to architecture and design firms for decades, but in its early years often took too much time and computing power for it to make sense for smaller firms, who still found it cost-effective to outsource processes such as visualization of t...