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To use BIM properly you need to change the whole design flow so that more time is allocated up front for pre-planning design than is presently allowed for - this affects fees, etc, not to mention the minefield of information co-ordination throughout the whole design/construction team.

I have found that most architects are just getting a handle on 2d CAD, never mind BIM. I cant think of anyone who works with consultants by coordinating work on one BIM model, never mind giving the model to a Contractor to work from. Most Contractors I have worked with have been considered 'advanced' if they have an email facility on-site from day one never mind a site based computer to read CAD drawings on.

Its a great idea but in reality the incorporation of a BIM system in architecture is years away, and wont be fully realised in any of our lifetimes. I suppose you have to start somewhere mind. But there is still a heck of a lot of resistance to any 'new fangled' technology in architecture amongst the older fraternity. And these days just keeping afloat is enough of a daily chore.

Of course you also have to wonder why the RIBA is wasting resources on this kind of thing and doesn't have anything better to do...I can think of plenty of things they should be doing instead of this pie in the sky stuff....