Lets promote information that can be provided by the Geomatics industry as a foundation for a BIM model as well as-built models of existing structures.

As an industry we seem to be focussed and promoting what we can provide in terms of as built-models of existing structures from laser scanning data. I have no argument with this but also feel that we should putting just as much effort into promoting what we can provide in terms of information about land and existing infrastructure that will provide a platform upon which a BIM model of a new structure will be based. Whether this is from data acquired using traditional topographical techniques, laser scanning or the numerous other methods available these days – we should be emphasising that this surely is of vital importance and if the information provided is not correct than it would affect everything else. I would be interested to hear other views on this.