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BIM

Building information modeling (BIM) is a process involving the generation and management of a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility.

BRANZ stands for Building Research Association of New Zealand.

What percentage of respondents in the New Zealand National BIM Survey use ArchiCAD?

 37% of the respondents use Graphisoft ArchiCAD for their BIM solution.

(Extracted from New Zealand National BIM Survey 2012)

What is Cognitive Surplus?

The concept of Cognitive Surplus shows the ability of people of the world to volunteer on large scale problems and products and the availability of technology to link those individuals into cooperative work groups. 

What is the difference between the 20th century media and 21st century media?

20th century media helped people become good at consuming, however, in 21st century, media let us do more than consuming through internet, mobile phones etc. It resulted that people also want to create something and also share them with public not just consuming like 20th century.

What is design generosity?

Design generosity pursues more for the social benefits rather than economical benefits, and social science explains how important our intrinsic motivations are to us and how much we do things because we like to do them rather than they're told to do them or because we are being paid to do them.

What are social constraints?

 Social constraint creates a culture that is more generous than the contractual constraints do and it comes from human behaviour that we inherited in the 20th century which is that we are all rational, self- maximizing actors. 

What is communal value?

Communal value is created by the participants for each other on the networks. It is publicly available and seen everywhere every time whether it's photos on Flickr or videos on YouTube or whatever.

What is Civic Value?

Civic value is created by the participants but enjoyed by society as a whole. This value has a set goal for certain society which is not just to make life better for the participants, but make life better for everyone in the society.