Educational approach for a BIM collaboration

This article provides feedback on the methodology put in place for learning BIM in order to prepare future designers to integrate these new methods and tools into their practice. The objective of this course is to encourage and make learners aware of the challenges of cooperation for the success of architectural projects which mobilize complementary skills and expertise divided between distributed responsibilities. Based on recent advances in collaborative design, the course anticipates professional practices: it presents emerging BIM methods and tools for cooperation and implements them in an original technological context, dedicated to collaborative work, between the design and the execution phase of an architecural project. At the end of this article, we present to you the contributions, the limits and the perspectives envisaged in favor of a better implementation of BIM towards a Collaboration 4.0 in the architecture and construction sector.