6. Outlook

6.1 Development of standards and standardization

The opportunities for engineers to benefit from high-performance software applications, enabling them to meet operators' requirements while increasing the productivity and quality of their work, are certainly based on the development of normalization and standardization, which will be imposed on the major software publishers.

The BIM standard is a promising one, but its implementation is no easy task. For proof of this, see the statement by Nicolas Jachiet, President of Syntec-Ingénierie:

"The major engineering firms are all using it, but this tool needs to be democratized, not only for smaller companies, but also for all contracting authorities to handle more modest projects. Legal...