From keyboard to construction: Is it finally time to get rid of paper?

For decades, the construction industry has lagged nearly every other industry in productivity improvement1. While design and construction industries have adopted many new technologies (BIM, data management, VR and AR, 3-D laser scanning, LEAN practices, off-site prefabrication) and are moving toward paperless practice in order to improve processes, some of the end-to-end process remains in stuck in the past, still issuing a static, 2-D document (actual paper or pdf electronic file) for permitting and issued construction documents. This continues to create an efficiency bottleneck for the industry and project delivery process. Where can the use of the BIM model improve pre-construction and construction phase productivity? How is a BIM model now making possible a substantial amount of off-site pre-fabrication of entire components/partial assemblies? Can we go from the design team’s BIM model directly to construction and fabrication? When? How? Why or why not?