A growing number of tier-one UK construction contractors, including Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine, are incorporating Blender into early-stage design and massing workflows as a cost-free alternative to proprietary visualisation tools such as Lumion. Industry body the UK BIM Alliance has noted the trend in its latest practitioner survey, with users leveraging Blender's Geometry Nodes feature for parametric modelling tasks. Interoperability with IFC-based BIM workflows remains an active area of development via the BlenderBIM add-on.

Source: Building Design