As a subcontractor or as a fabricator, you are responsible for only a portion of a building’s overall design or fabrication. You must work with other subcontractors to ensure your system is integrated, coordinated and compliant with the designs provided to you. If you are not using BIM, but instead using 2D CAD and related disjointed processes, you are part of a labor intensive workflow, where much of your effort is spent producing and updating drawings. These drawings and related documents probably have high rates of inaccuracies and inconsistencies, many of which are often not discovered until you show up at the jobsite. You produce these drawings for a variety of purposes including design, engineering, manufacturing and assembly. If you are a subcontractor who is not using BIM, you will find the same information is being entered into computer programs multiple times, each time for a distinct and separate use. Some of this duplicate data entry occurs within your company, and some of it occurs across the project team. If you are a subcontractor not using BIM, you are limited by the tools and processes of the "pre-information age". Your long-term value to the project team is limited by these methods and your ability to differentiate.

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