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The progress report on interior designers’ use of technology is impressive yet still lacking. some firms are agile adoptees, yet the practice on the whole could be leveraging much more.

by ALAn g. brAkE

As the community of interior design embraces technology, not just dips its collective toe into the techno-water, it’s transforming firm practices. It revolutionizes the way designers work, the speed with which they design, their ability to design sustainably, and their modes of presentation and interaction with clients. But it’s mostly larger practices or those working on large-scale projects that are capitalizing on technology’s integration efficiencies. And while software is changing the deliverables designers bestow to clients, the resulting forms and the processes of fabricating interior elements are only just beginning to be tapped. In the last five years, designers at mid- to large-size firms have been harnessing the potential of building Information modeling (bIm), a holistic process that merges design with all of a project’s specifications. bIm has rapidly gone from the hands of the technological elite to the mainstream of firms. According to Joy reidelbach, IIDA, an nbbJ senior associate, her firm previously used four separate programs to do the work it now does entirely through revit, Autodesk’s bIm software. The software allows for integrated design and visualization processes and enables faster construction and life-cycle analysis, particularly useful on larger projects. It also permits collaboration between teams within firms and beyond as well as between engineers and contractors across a highly detailed and information rich platform.

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IIDA Perspective - Fall/Winter 2011
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Retaking Place
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