Traditional software, such as the likes of AutoCAD, are large monolithic lumps of code that can do many things on the data that they create. The growth of tablets and smartphones on site is a growing trend and many developers have iOS or Android applications to further extend their drawing office systems to make design information ubiquitous. Like emails, drawings and models can be stored on servers and accessed via the cloud, connecting design teams to fabricators and construction workers. We already rely on a multitude of ‘clouds’ (hosted servers) using them knowingly, or unknowingly, to go about our normal lives.
It gives us flexibility to be outside of the office, onsite or work from home, and provides wireless access to the historical, real-time or context aware information. We have smartphones, tablets, the cloud, sub-notebooks and now even watches, all providing portable online access. Over the last two decades, global connectivity has become big business. “Why would you ever want to do that?” replied my friend, who now, years later, will probably be the last die-hard Blackberry user on the planet. I distinctly remember showing my Blackberry phone to a friend, quite a few years ago, and demonstrating how I could now have access to the web and my email on the go. With the advent of CAD, the digitisation of design, the Internet and mobile computing, we really can get everything, everywhere and mobile apps for BIM are on the rise. Access to design data used to be limited to drawing offices and distributed in cardboard tubes.
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