John Tauchus
I lead teams that turn drawings, models, scans, and maintenance records into building data owners can trust, and build the tools and workflows that keep it that way.
Ann Arbor, in the Detroit metro area.
I’m Director of Technology Integration in the Digital Reality division at Production Modeling Corporation (PMC).
I started as a CAD technician and have spent more than two decades in BIM, VDC, and digital delivery, at Ghafari, Rossetti, and PMC. My work has moved steadily from project delivery toward operations: delivery playbooks that standardize BIM output regardless of who authored it, Revit family libraries that populate thousands of asset records at handover, and teams that push field-verified data straight into CMMS and operational systems.
I’d rather build a team that owns its tools than a tool that depends on me. That has meant collaborative scripting sessions with partners, a version-controlled automation library, and a cross-functional AI committee spanning CAD, project management, marketing, sales, and leadership.
Writing and tools
Project write-ups, published with the colleagues who did the work with me.
- From outdated asset database to decision-ready twin Scan-to-twin for a multi-site owner. With Michael Brown (PMC).
- When the asset is the empty space 167,900 warehouse storage slots as data-bearing assets. With Todd Cahalan (TMC Drafting Services).
- The building already has the answers Reconciling every data layer on a late-1980s facility.
- AI-built automation without a development team Two years building a version-controlled pyRevit library.
- Scoping the BIM (and why I try to steer it toward operations) On deciding what BIM is for before it’s built.
- VDC Phase Tracker A free pre-construction coordination tool I built.