Thinking BIM and design in a new process

It's curious how BIM software today approaches building assembly - very much large scale to small, and with some exception, not in a way that encourages hotelling and prefab concepts in design thinking. If software approached the building in a unitized way, much like software like CADMEP and CADDUCT behave together (low-resolution design model into high-resolution fab model), could this change how we build? For instance, a logical system that allows you to define a room zone, and click up the resolution to build the walls, item placements, etc., even laying out stud assemblies. If this system could allow one to work in parallel with a planning team that is placing instances of these rooms(and stay recognized as 'rooms'), concurrent design and technical development could move in parallel, and allow sub-contractors to build the prototypes with the design team...

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