Forbes: Solving The Construction Labor Shortage Through Ingenuity

It’s estimated that “65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don’t yet exist.” Careers in building information modeling (BIM) and virtual design and construction (VDC) are among the up-and-coming career options that are attracting the attention of both large and small educational institutions like Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and Georgia Highlands College in Rome, Georgia. Starting in spring 2022, Georgia Highlands will join Purdue as one of the few schools in the country to offer degree programs in BIM and VDC. Both programs offer classes on a wide range of construction-related topics and teach students how to construct projects digitally using 3D modeling technologies, which is highly anticipated to be the way of the future.

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