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Feedback: Build in how many dimensions?

13 August 2014

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Build in how many dimensions?

QUANTITY surveyors, are, in Feedback’s experience, sober people with a clear grasp of the concept “quantity”. They will thus be alarmed at the assertion that Adrian Dooley forwards from the National Building Specification website: “Building Information Modelling (BIM) involves generating a visual model of the building… working in 3D, 4D (workflow) and, increasingly, 5D (quantity surveying).”

We look forward to playing with 4D models of buildings, even if only to watch the paint dry, then peel.…

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