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== History ==
The concept of BIM has existed since the 1970s. The first software tools developed for modeling buildings emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and included workstation products such as [[Charles M. Eastman|Chuck Eastman]]'s Building Description System<ref name=Eastman2008>{{cite book |first1=Charles |last1=Eastman |first2=David |last2=Fisher |first3=Gilles |last3=Lafue |first4=Joseph |last4=Lividini |first5=Douglas |last5=Stoker |first6=Christos |last6=Yessios |date=September 1974 |title=An Outline of the Building Description System |publisher=Institute of Physical Planning, Carnegie-Mellon University |url=http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED113833 |access-date=2013-12-13 |archive-date=2013-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213214253/http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED113833 |url-status=live }}</ref> and GLIDE, [[RUCAPS]], [[Sonata (building design software)|Sonata]], [[Reflex (building design software)|Reflex]] and [[Gable CAD|Gable 4D Series]].<ref name=Eastman1>{{cite book|last1=Eastman|first1=Chuck|last2=Tiecholz|first2=Paul|last3=[[Rafael Sacks|Sacks]]|first3=Rafael|last4=Liston|first4=Kathleen|title=BIM Handbook: a Guide to Building Information Modeling for owners, managers, designers, engineers, and contractors|date=2008|publisher=John Wiley|___location=Hoboken, New Jersey|isbn=9780470185285|edition=1st|pages=xi–xii}}<!--|access-date=15 June 2015--></ref><ref name=Eastman2>{{cite book|last1=Eastman|first1=Chuck|last2=Tiecholz|first2=Paul|last3=Sacks|first3=Rafael|last4=Liston|first4=Kathleen|year = 2011 | title = BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors |url=https://archive.org/details/bimhandbookguide00east|url-access=limited| ___location = Hoboken, New Jersey|publisher=John Wiley|edition=2nd |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bimhandbookguide00east/page/n51 36]–37|isbn=9780470541371 }}</ref> The early applications, and the hardware needed to run them, were expensive, which limited widespread adoption.<ref name=Miller>{{Cite news|last=Miller|first=Kasper|date=January–February 2022|title=Exploring BIM's hidden past|work=AEC Magazine|url=https://aecmag.com/bim/exploring-bims-hidden-past-history-of-bim/|access-date=9 February 2022}}</ref>
The pioneering role of applications such as RUCAPS, Sonata and Reflex has been recognized by Laiserin<ref>Laiserin, J. (2003) "[http://laiserin.com/features/issue17/feature02.php LaiserinLetterLetters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170802153658/http://www.laiserin.com/features/issue17/feature02.php |date=2017-08-02 }}" (see Laiserin's comment to letter from John Mullan), ''The Laiserin Letter'', 6 January 2003.</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=January 2012}} as well as the UK's [[Royal Academy of Engineering]];<ref name="RAEng-Ingram">{{cite web|title=Prince Philip Medal for engineer behind revolution in Building Information Modelling (22 June 2016)|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2016/june/prince-philip-medal-for-engineer-behind-revolution|website=Royal Academy of Engineering|publisher=RAEng|access-date=22 July 2016|archive-date=25 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625175004/http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2016/june/prince-philip-medal-for-engineer-behind-revolution|url-status=live}}</ref> former GMW employee [[Jonathan Ingram]] worked on all three products.<ref name=Miller/> What became known as BIM products differed from architectural drafting tools such as [[AutoCAD]] by allowing the addition of further information (time, cost, manufacturers' details, sustainability, and maintenance information, etc.) to the building model.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}
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