About
BIMCzar Consulting was founded after years of requests from clients, colleagues, and industry peers seeking specialized expertise outside of traditional employment contexts. What started as individual consulting engagements grew into a practice built around one operating belief: the best outcomes come when the owner's long-term goals drive every decision.
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Meet Our Founder
Founder & Principal Consultant
Charlie Carr is a recognized leader in Owner-Driven BIM, facilities management, and digital twin creation. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has developed a reputation for translating complex technical systems into organizational change, the kind of change that shows up in the budget, the headcount, and the long-term value of the assets being managed.
His work at a major government agency produced the first comprehensive BIM standards for a local government agency in the region (three full versions authored, aligned with national BIM standards, publicly shared and adopted by consulting firms nationwide), helped accelerate a decade-long digital transition to under five years as part of a cross-functional team, contributing to over $500,000 in verified annual cost savings and a reduction in staffing demand, all while building the standards and automation frameworks that made it possible. He led implementation of Revit and Forma across a 170-building portfolio and built AI tools that are in active daily use by the facilities technology team.
Charlie has contributed to projects valued at up to $400 million and was part of the team that managed a local government real estate portfolio exceeding $2 billion, roughly 400 active construction projects per year across 170 buildings. His approach to every engagement (whether a capital plan, a BIM standard, or a workflow redesign) starts with understanding how the owner actually uses the building, then working backwards from that to design a system that serves it.
Before his AECO career, Charlie simultaneously ran a 17-year career as a chef and multi-site restaurant operator while building an 11-year parallel career in brand management and advertising. His regional campaigns across the Northwest covered all or many stores for Procter & Gamble, Home Depot, Target, Best Buy, Microsoft, Kroger, Unilever, Kaspersky, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Office Depot, and OfficeMax, and he led the Northwest branding changeover for Nabisco (now Mondeléz International). Running both careers at the same time built a level of operational endurance, systems thinking, and execution discipline that is visible in everything BIMCzar delivers. His tech roots run even deeper: over two decades ago he worked technical support for Hewlett-Packard's corporate LaserJet division.
In mid-2025, Charlie expanded BIMCzar Consulting into music technology, bringing nearly two decades of music industry experience (roadie, producer, performer) together with the same brand strategy and operational rigor that defines his AECO work. Based in Portland, Oregon.
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Company
BIMCzar Consulting came out of a simple reality: the requests kept coming. Colleagues, clients, and organizations across the AECO industry needed specialized expertise that didn't fit a standard employment relationship: a BIM standard built for their specific portfolio, a capital plan grounded in facility condition reality, a workflow designed around how their team actually operates.
Charlie formalized BIMCzar Consulting in January 2025 to meet that demand with the same quality and senior-level attention that defined his government and nonprofit work. Every engagement is led directly by Charlie. No juniors, no hand-offs, no consulting theatre. For larger or multi-discipline engagements, Charlie draws on a vetted network of industry-tested professionals, individuals he has worked alongside directly and who operate at the same pace and standards BIMCzar clients expect.
BIMCzar also works with three nonprofit organizations (two in the AECO space and one in animal rescue), providing capital planning, facility design, cost modeling, and operational strategy. That community work is not separate from the mission. It is the mission.
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The Vision
Even if the same design has been built ten thousand times, each building has had different people inside it, different failures, different repairs, different moments that made it uniquely itself. That is why full lifecycle data matters: it is not just efficiency or asset management, it is preserving the story of the building so the people who come after us can understand what they inherited, build on it intelligently, and carry it forward.
Charlie has helped create and concatenate Revit models of buildings constructed over a century ago (including a landmark 1912 library), working through how to document and model existing MEP systems in structures that have been evolving for more than a hundred years. Revit was not designed to do that. It got done anyway.
The future BIMCzar works toward is one where building data does not fragment at handoff points, disappear at project closeout, or get buried in disconnected systems. The design model informs construction. Construction data informs operations. Operational history informs maintenance, capital planning, and sustainability decisions, and eventually deconstruction, reuse, and the next generation of work on that same site.
As sustainability becomes more urgent, the industry must get better at knowing what buildings are made of, how they perform, how they can be maintained longer, and how they can one day be deconstructed intelligently rather than demolished blindly. If the full history of a building stays connected to the building itself, we reuse more, waste less, and design the next generation more responsibly.
Lifecycle Data Continuity
Data should never fragment at a handoff. Each stage inherits everything the last one learned, through to the next building on the same site.
First conversation is always free. No online pricing. Every engagement is scoped to your specific goals.