Graphisoft study finds young graduates may not have the right skills

The acceptance of BIM through the last decade has been astonishing. Once a slow-growing luxury for large construction firms, BIM is now accepted as a requirement on large projects. BIM has been around as a concept since the 1980s and began to gain regulatory traction in the 2000s. The technology got a leg up from European government bodies, which had been calling for established standards and data management for large projects. It’s not easy to pin down the first BIM mandates, but the UK usually gets credit for Digital Built Britain in 2011, which called for Level 2 BIM compliance