Even if projects use BIM internally it’s still completely possible that the final deliverables are all PDFs/drawings/etc generated from BIM/internal models for contractual/liability reasons etc.
Yes that's what I said, but estimating material quantities of a design is something that you'd want to do at the beginning of the process as close to business development as possible, not at the end of the process during subcontracting. So wouldn't it make the most sense to be applying AI to the data models used by designers, or at least the closest derivative to them?
