Phil Bernstein is Autodesk’s vice president of strategy and industry relations and also teaches at Yale University. He’s an individual with a strong handle on theory, practice and the role of the tools vendor in helping individuals shape the practice of the future.
One of the prevailing focuses at Autodesk right now is the breaking down of barriers between different products in order to focus more completely on facilitating all phases of a building project. To this end, the company realizes the need to facilitate easier workflows between the GIS and CAD toolsets.
Here’s a paraphrased paragraph from Bernstein:
“Autodesk is very focused on understanding the relationship between all of our technology pieces. We had to go through a period of optimizing each of the pieces for their own usefulness, and now we’re starting to look at the relationship between BIM and GIS, and how to link our geospatial tools with our building modeling tools. We need to look comprehensively at the sustainability of a project, instead of the sustainable characteristics of a data set for example.”
You can read the entire interview online here.
