"Though its wide adoption is a recent phenomenon, Building Information Modeling has been in existence since the 1970s. Early software applications that modeled buildings came to be in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term “building model” in this context appeared in the mid-1980s and the term “building information modeling” originated in a 1992 academic article. It was not for another decade that the term came into popular use when several software developers created the market...." To read the complete article, click here.
CE This Week, Construction Executive