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Article: Half of Construction Industry Now Using BIM, Says New McGraw-Hill Construction Report.
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- September 22, 2009
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Construction's latest SmartMarket Report, "The Business Value of BIM: Getting Building Information Modeling (BIM) to the Bottom Line," produced with Autodesk and 26 other industry organizations, profiles adoption of BIM in North America and examines the real business values that users are experiencing. Nearly half of respondents (49%) report that they are using BIM tools -- a 75% increase over the 28% BIM adoption rate measured in 2007. A follow-up to the authoritative 2008 BIM report, the 2009 Business Value of BIM Report was released today at the Business of BIM Conference in San Francisco.
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