Obama endorses BIM

President Obama Highlights BIM In his State of the Union Address last week, President Barack Obama focused on the importance of the nation’s infrastructure and made a reference to the power of building information modeling (BIM). During his discussion of innovation and the digital age, Obama recognized the role BIM can play in emergency management, “It’s about connecting every part of America to the digital age…It’s about a firefighter who can download the design of a burning building onto a handheld device.” His speech also touched on other issues of importance to the building community, such as the government’s role in basic research development of a clean energy economy, and the need for technical and vocational training. (quoted from NIST)

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