• CO Architects in Los Angeles took a flyer on Building information Modeling when the firm began to design a new medical center near San Diego in 2005, buying computers capable of running the software and working with the software developers to create a model for a 740,000-square-foot project.
• Using BIM with the rest of the team led to integrated project delivery, which yielded benefits such as piping and ductwork prefabricated and ready to install because it fit and conflicts had been worked out on the computer rather than the job site at Palomar Medical Center West.
• Some in construction have been slow to get on board with BIM, but it's now the only way CO works because the company says BIM works.

From the article:

It’s been more than a decade since the building industry started to shift in earnest from two-dimensional CAD software to multi-faceted BIM (short for “building information modeling”). ...