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as data usage , which opened up new possibilities for Aconex and indeed construction .
“ Over the years , the speed increase has enabled us to do more and more , provide more information , with bigger files and more recently , start to manage massive BIM models in huge files over the system ,” he said .
BIM , Collaboration and the Cloud For Jasper , BIM is a technology with massive potential to change the way the industry delivers projects , but he stressed the need for investment in the correct tools to reap the full benefit , as BIM use dramatically increases the need for collaboration . This is where the Cloud comes in .
He said : “ BIM is an industrywide trend , but it couples with the move to cloud-based services that is happening and also the move to deeper collaboration , so people think about how they manage their models and collaborate around them . An environment where everybody can access it really points to a cloudbased solution .
“ We see the model being the centre of the project . Rather than
BIM is a technology with massive potential
collaborating around a set of documents , you do so around a model . You then enrich that model with all the other information : documents , correspondence , workflows , decisions .
“ That marrying of very deep collaboration which we have been doing for years with BIM is a massive advantage to the project team , and the big benefit to the owner is that they have not just a history of the project , but a comprehensive handover of all the information for that asset .
“ This enables them to operate more efficiently in future , so the
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