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Your BIM Models Are a Ticking Time Bomb I was talking with a small engineering firm a while back about a project that went sideways. It wasn’t a big, dramatic failure. It was subtle. A set of plans sent to a fabricator had a few critical dimensions that were off by just enough to cause a massive headache on-site. The change wasn’t caught in the shop drawings, and the result was thousands of dollars in rework and a client who was, to put it mildly, not thrilled. ...

Who Has the Keys to Your Kingdom? An employee quits on a Friday. On Monday, you find out your main client list has been deleted from the company Dropbox. Who did it? You have no idea, because five different people all use the same admin@ login. This isn’t a hypothetical. For small businesses, this kind of chaos is frighteningly common. We often operate on trust, giving everyone the keys to everything because it’s “easier.” This isn’t just lazy; it’s a massive, self-inflicted wound waiting to happen. ...