In today’s Chicago Tribune, Autodesk Vice President Phillip Bernstein explains for the general reader how the construction industry has lagged behind manufacturing in the efficient use of computer technology.
An excerpt:
Typically, the rare but spectacular failures of building today are not a result of the architectural or engineering design itself. In almost every case, they're a breakdown of process rather than design intent. From design to construction, thousands of decisions are made every day with little but a set of drawings as a touchstone. Information still is shared the ancient way: from one worker to another. Sometimes that's a pencil scrawl on the back of a board, or simply a quick word or two on the construction site.
Bernstein is a vice president in the Building Solutions division at Autodesk, and a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Architecture.
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--RSN