Engineering News-Record: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a concept reaching near ubiquity in the construction industry, with organizations like the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)promoting the use of BIM for Infrastructure and BIM for Bridges to their member agencies. While the concept of BIM - the representation of a physical asset through a digital, information-rich model that’s available to all project stakeholders - is far from new, many of the technologies that support a strong BIM foundation are still lagging behind in adoption, especially in the infrastructure world.
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I have been somewhat in BIM ever since I first downloaded Vectorworks and saw that BIM was one of the workflows available. At that time I of course did not know what BIM was other than that it was something related to architecture. A couple months later I learned about how a friend of mine who does AV integration used REVIT to plan out projects. This led to me going down a rabbit hole about REVIT and BIM in general. There is something very captivating to me about having this perfect 3-dimensional model with all of the information that all of the departments need. It also seems helpful because when used properly it can avoid so many problems that would be easier to overlook. While we don’t use BIM in the traditional sense in theater, it is still important to consider how information is getting distributed to various departments and making sure that every piece fits in to the overall puzzle of the show.
I have never heard of this before and I’m already invested, this could be extremely useful in the entertainment industry. Especially with set design, you could set this up and make sure all your parts have clearance from one another and furthermore between departments making sure lighting and sound fixtures don’t get in each other’s way. And making sure lights and speakers on stage don’t interfere with the set around them. Technology like this could even be used for organizing wiring in more convenient ways. Even past the construction of it all, keeping an automatic up to date record of where the wires are, where they go, and what they are for would be revolutionary for small town and school theatres which often cycle through people very frequently, losing all the people who knew where everything was. This could replace a lot of the paperwork and streamline the building processes. I really hope to see this adapted for small theatre use sometime in the future.
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