What is the MacLeamy Curve?

The premise of the MacLeamy Curve is that an integrative process shifts design efforts toward the front-end of a project timeline – where there is maximum flexibility to make high-impact design decisions and interdisciplinary efforts are coordinated much sooner versus a more traditional design process.

What did Patrick MacLeamy propose?

He advocates changing the fragmented nature of the industry into a vertically integrated, highly efficient system that emulates manufacturing. Mr. MacLeamy supports this vision as a founder and Chairman of buildingSMART International, an organization which fosters standards for data exchange in the building industry.

What does BIM stand for?

Building Information Modeling
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the foundation of digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. As the leader in BIM, Autodesk is the industry’s partner to realize better ways of working and better outcomes for business and the built world. Try software.

What are the barriers to use BIM in Hong Kong?

The major barriers to BIM adoption are related to the inherent resistance to change by construction stakeholders, inadequate organizational support and structure to execute BIM, and lack of BIM industry standards in Hong Kong.

Why is the MacLeamy Curve important to design?

MacLeamy and his disciples advocate shifting design effort forward in the project, frontloading it, in order to reduce the cost of design changes. MacLeamy would argue that shifting design effort forwards is for the benefit of design [ via youtube ].

How is the Boehm curve similar to the MacLeamy Curve?

For this earth-shattering revelation Boehm named the curve after himself. It is pretty striking how similar the curves are, both in shape and even in what the axes signify. Boehm’s curve is often used by software architects to justify upfront design – much like MacLeamy’s curve is in architecture. However Boehm’s curve has been challenged…

How is BIM implemented in Hok buildingSMART?

BIM Implementation – HOK buildingSMART. BIM is not a software solution; it is a process, underpinned by technology and collaborative working. In many instances the use and reuse of data throughout the lifecycle of a construction project is not used efficiently.

Where was Patrick MacLeamy at the Nordic BIM conference?

MacLeamy was the keynote speaker at the Nordic BIM Academy’s buildingSMART conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November 2016. Nordic BIM Academy is Scandinavia’s largest conference devoted to OpenBIM. MacLeamy described his vision of BIM and collaboration in the AEC (architecture/engineering/construction) industry.