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Architecture is in the middle of its biggest transformation since the introduction of computers. Building information modelling (BIM) is a simple enough idea: a single digital model of a building that everyone – architect, client, suppliers, builders, environmental managers – can work on. A Google Docs for buildings. But its implications could change the built environment.