• Implementing building information modeling (BIM) systems for projects traditionally has involved acquiring hardware and software and the people to design, install and maintain systems. It's also meant assuring conformity when any new people or companies came into the system.
• Cloud computing, delivering software as a service, promises to change the paradigm and be a dose of aspirin for technical headaches.
• When architectural, engineering and construction firms can access cloud-based BIM the way they can rent heavy equipment as they need it for each job, they gain the ability to access it whenever they need it and from wherever their people are, near-infinite computing capacity that wipes out the limitations of specific machines, and the latest tools that competition has brought to the marketplace.

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Imagine a future in which you could access building information modeling technology anywhere, at any time. ...