John Tauchus
I help building owners and AECO teams turn drawings, models, scans, and maintenance records into data they can trust, and set up the coordination, standards, and tools that keep it that way.
Taking new engagements starting November 2026.
About
Ann Arbor, in the Detroit metro area. Working with clients across the U.S., on-site and remotely.
I started as a CAD technician and spent more than two decades on the vendor side of BIM, at Ghafari, Rossetti, and most recently as Director of Technology Integration in PMC’s Digital Reality division.
My work 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. Now I work directly with owners, operators, and AECO teams as an independent consultant, and I’m open to the right owner-side leadership role.
What I help with
- Digital twin strategy and maturity assessment
- Asset data standards and BIM-to-FM handover
- Reconciling existing building data: drawings, CMMS, BIM, closeout, and scans
- VDC program and coordination setup (see the VDC Phase Tracker)
- Autodesk Forma and design technology initiatives
- Practical AI adoption for AECO teams
Writing and tools
Work I led at Production Modeling Corporation, written up with the colleagues who did it 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- From outdated asset database to decision-ready twin Scan-to-twin for a multi-site owner.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.
- Digital twin maturity in VR Walk through all four maturity levels, from spatial model to operational twin.
- Video portfolio Walkthroughs of work I’ve led, on YouTube.
Want to talk something through?
Taking new engagements starting November 2026.