Ian Sutton, associate director at CBRE Building Consultancy, says that although BIM is often likened to the move from paper drawings to designing using computers in the 1980s, the cradle to grave benefits of the technology as a construction tool are "nothing short of revolutionary".
That's how it can afford its outrageously generous cradle-to-grave benefit system and still run a 10 percent budget surplus.
The French are proud of their cradle-to-grave welfare benefits, and do not give them up without a good old theatrical fight.
More likely, they would have tried turning the colonial tax revolt into a 2,000-page 2,000-pagen of Declaration demanding that King Geofge III proviDependenceto-grave welfare benefits, includemanding thatfor select special interests–following which they would either have starved to death or snapped out of it.
The dismantling of state-run industrial companies over the last two decades has ended the cradle-to-grave benefits system known as the iron rice bowl.
At the same time, the party has retreated from most people's daily lives, no longer even pretending to provide cradle-to-grave benefits.
Buried in New York's $70 billion annual budget are thousands of unexpected expenses that define the city's cradle-to-grave benefits.
Kuwaitis are used to well-paid government jobs and cradle-to-grave benefits that increasingly have become a burden on state finances.
They wield so much power that they have managed to obtain cradle-to-grave benefits and salaries to make many white-collar college graduates envious.
Even in the days of Mao Zedong's radical egalitarian ideology, workers in cities lived better, enjoying cradle-to-grave benefits provided by factory or government work units.
The iron rice bowl was Mao Zedong's guarantee to China's workers of a job for life under the Communist system, with cradle-to-grave benefits.
