Rethinking BIM with Paul Wintour | BIM Pure Live #083

🧑🏻 Guest: Paul Wintour

📖 Topic: Rethinking BIM

📅 Date: September 25th, 2024 - 8 PM EDT

🔗 Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/nNR89VlymzQ

Paul Wintour is the founder of Parametric Monkey, a BIM consulting company based in Sydney, Australia. He has a master's degree in architecture and urbanism. Before starting Parametric Monkey, Paul previously worked at HOK and Woods Bagot.

Paul is a proponent of automation in our industry and is known for being a honest voice in his online essays about the challenges architecture is facing.

Topics covered:

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 is AI in AEC overhyped?

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 What is "Innovation Theater"?

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 BIM & Modular Construction

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Mass timber + DfMA automation

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Parametric Monkey Dynamo packages

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Technical Debt in BIM + AEC

Mentioned Links: 

Technical debt: Architecture's ticking time bomb

Link: https://parametricmonkey.com/2022/05/29/technical-debt/

Rethinking modular construction's business model

Link: https://parametricmonkey.com/2024/09/20/rethinking-modular-constructions-business-model/

Incomplete and unused: Design Technology's dirty secret

Link: https://parametricmonkey.com/2022/08/02/incomplete-and-unused/

Mass timber: A cause study in DfMA automation

Link: https://parametricmonkey.com/2022/09/14/mass-timber-a-case-study-in-dfma-automation/

Paul's LinkedIn Post; "The AEC industry doesn't AI. What it needs is honesty"

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-wintour_the-aec-industry-doesnt-need-ai-it-doesn-activity-7171426975239036931-QfAg

Book: The Inevitable, Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0525428089

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