"We're not BIM modelers; we're engineers who design as BIM natives."

This distinction might seem subtle, but it's the difference between project success and costly failure.

Last month, I reviewed a beautifully rendered hashtag#BIM model for a chemical plant expansion. The visualization was impressive - perfect for presentations.

But upon deeper inspection, our team at Proyectos Engineering identified several critical flaws in piping and structural design principles that would have led to failures under operational conditions.

The model looked right. The engineering was wrong.

At Proyectos Engineering, we've learned through delivering 200+ industrial projects in the hashtag#Process sector that ignoring the engineering fundamentals behind the model leads to three predictable disasters:

1) Technically unsound designs that fail in real-world conditions

2) Budget hemorrhages from unforeseen technical issues discovered too late

3) Operational nightmares post-construction requiring expensive retrofits

Don't risk your next project on mediocre modeling wrapped in pretty renderings. Your stakeholders deserve designs that work, built on genuine engineering expertise.

What's your experience with the gap between modeling and engineering?