by Dr. Regina Ruschel, Senior Researcher and Collaborating Professor at the Graduate Program in Architecture, Technology and the City at the University of Campinas
My experience in BIM is essentially academic, both in teaching and research. I came to BIM naturally because of my focus on digital transformation. I was a pioneer and led two major digital transformation processes in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction in the Brazilian academy. In the 1980s, I locally implemented the transition from analog to digital, of drawing board design to computer-aided design, in the civil engineering course at the University of Campinas. Since the mid-2000s, I have worked tirelessly to transition from computer-aided design to information modeling, across the entire building and infrastructure development cycle in education. This effort was first locally at my university and recently nationwide.
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