Add Value with BIM
BIM is getting much attention because it is so well aligned to providing value in relation to major converging conditions in the building professions:
- Sustainability awareness and objectives
- ‘New’ project delivery approaches
- Advances in design technology
- Globalization/Distributed Teams/Consolidation
- Competitive pressures and client demands.
The industry is driving change: The building industry has become increasingly aware of the need to improve the way buildings are designed, delivered, and operated throughout their lifecycle.
Organizations such as the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Construction Users Round Table, the American Institute of Architects, the Association of General Contractors, the Design Build Institute of America, and many more have undertaken to evaluate and quantify these issues. And they are all actively advocating change to improve the building process.
There are problems to be fixed: The essence of these findings is that the traditional ways projects are designed, documented, and constructed causes problems:
- Waste
- Delay
- Re-work
- Unnecessary cost
- Lost opportunity
- Poor inter-disciplinary coordination
- Increased liability
- Lower quality.
BIM can help you fix these problems on your projects.
There are benefits to be gained: BIM coordinates design, documents, and delivery for your own work, and throughout the project team.
BIM integrates the work, processes, and information for:
- Multiple disciplines
- Multiple companies
- Multiple project phases.
Saving Time: Teams that have changed to BIM save time.
During design, there is increased opportunity for design iterations, as information is exchanged between disciplines quickly. Project documentation requires less time wasted on grunt work. Professionals can spend less time documenting decisions and more time making them. Everyone can avoid redundant effort. And construction can better support fast-tracking, tightly managed schedules, and the shared risks and rewards of design/build.
Improving Quality: Teams that have changed to BIM improve the quality of work.
Improved coordination between documents, between disciplines, and across the entire team reduces errors and omissions. With coordinated documents and well-captured design intent, the enhanced design process makes for a far more informed design environment.
In addition BIM enables you to pursue better quality buildings, through issues such as:
- Integrated practice
- Sustainable “Green” design
- Innovative use of materials and methods
- New and exciting building geometries.
Enhancing Profitability: Teams that have changed to BIM enhance profitability and competitiveness.
- Lower the bottom line: Effectively applied man-hours, efficient deliverables, and lower error and omission remediation costs can all dramatically impact profitability. Moreover, the increased predictability of managed costs can be realized in lower contingencies. Many BIM practitioners can even point to lower insurance premiums as a result of reduced project claims.
- Raise the top line: With a faster delivery of service, more competitive quality of work, and tighter bidding for design and construction services, BIM enables more profitable practice.
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