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Adoption of BIM can mean doing more with less architects. BIM can be expensive to buy and expensive to get up to speed with. Essentially 3 main stream options for architects: ArchiCAD, Revit and Bentley Architecture. ArchiCAD has been around decades, easy to learn, intuitive, and used extensively in Australia. Bentley Architecture is a logical extension to Microstation, requires fair amount of training, Revit rapidly being adopted world wide, many in the construction industry are jumping on this band wagon without any really knowledge of the products limitations and without any real knowledge of the other two mainstream BIM platforms. If you are Mac based ArchiCAD would seem the logical choice as you will have enhanced performance and stability using Mac OS, and can export directly to Cinema 4D for great CGIs and animations, however through Boot Camp with windows any Macs can run the Windows based BIM programmes no problem, issues will be with the rest of the practices Mac software that would need to be changed... or have a mix system. BIM used poorly is a an expensive toy, so expensive training for the less intuitive programmes is a must and may well be out of reach of many practices.

On an international note, Singapore now offers grants to encourage architects to submit planning and building control documents as BIM models and in less than 18 months will be mandatory to submit in BIM format....the world is moving quickly forward.