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How Material Intelligence Solves What BIM Can’t

The original promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) went far beyond the three-dimensional representation of a building. Its ambition was to turn the model into a coordinated information structure, in which geometry, components, systems, and data remained connected as the project evolved.

How Material Intelligence Solves What BIM Can’t

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The original promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) went far beyond the three-dimensional representation of a building.

Its ambition was to turn the model into a coordinated information structure, in which geometry, components, systems, and data remained connected as the project evolved.

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The original promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) went far beyond the three-dimensional representation of a building. Its ambition was to turn the model into a coordinated information structure, in which geometry, components, systems, and data remained connected as the project evolved.

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