I’ve been aggressively campaigning against BIM outsourcing-companies lately...

Or that’s what people at my work perceive me doing.

In fact, I’ve got nothing against sound providers offering BIM related services.

Not just that some of my best friends are working the described field as I write this post, I’ve spent many years being one of them.

So, accuse me of anti BIM-outsourcing and I’ll take offence.

Or will not, instead I might just happily go along as being labelled a ‘hypocrite’, but branding me as such, apart from it being a lively topic for the occasion, will not help BIM the slightest.

I see company after company rolling up and rolling out BIM related services while missing out on the fact that their targets (for outsourcing, like the one I’m in now) are becoming more knowledgeable, god ‘forbid ‘BIM-sophisticated’ then what they used to be and our demands are rising.

Most of these service providers offer us modelling, the part of the ‘machinery’ that is the easiest to re-create within our own environments.

Furthermore, there is very little incentive in us in sourcing something that will put our own-people out of work in times where projects are in short supply.

If these companies want to be taken seriously, they need to offer us something that we either do not have (but want) or is cheaper/easier to get from them then us developing it.