The wholesome approach of integrating designing
and documenting a project means less is lost in translation from
conception to built environment. It is not a futuristic utopian
workflow; Building Information Modeling embodied in software such
as
ArchiCAD
& Revit
have been successfully applied by many Architects all around
the world in real built projects for over a decade. It has been
applied on both large complex buildings and small conventional
projects by both large and small practices.