When Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed on a mysterious tropical island in the
South Pacific, none of the survivors were aware that they were actually LOST in their own lives. Instead,
they were concerned with being physically LOST on an abandoned island. In fact, after 5 years of the TV
Show and over 100 episodes, viewers became to realize that these ‘Losties’ could only become aware of
their difficult and mysterious situation after spending several years in and out of the island.
Although a fictional TV show, similarities can be drawn from when the term Building Information
Modeling (BIM) was coined through the 1990s with a similar path of destiny for the users of the digital
building models in the AEC industry beginning to emerge, leaving the industry (the BIM Losties of
2010) with many questions to be answered, such as: