Finnish BIM Pioneers: Like Hackers Architects in a Community Studio 17/03/2016 By Albert Lejeune, Hamid Nach, Georges Rizkallah and Gulnaz Aksenova In Autres publications No Comments Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the “process by which a digital representation of a building’s physical and functional characteristics is created, maintained, and shared as a knowledge resource. Since the early 2000s, BIM has become a necessary part of new building construction” (Briscoe, 2015: 1). But in Finland, a leading country with BIM and architecture1, architects and engineers pioneering BIM have not been content with enthusiastic consumerism. Tags: AEC • Architects • BIM • Community • Macrocognition • virtual 3D mock-up design