3 Ways BIM shapes the future of Building Industry

Why BIM?

Building Information Modeling or BIM as it is widely known is not just a modern tool or technology. It is a creative approach to design, construct and operate the structures. According to the National BIM standard, BIM can be defined as follows:

“BIM is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. It serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for making decisions throughout its life-cycle”

BIM Engineering serves as an essential tool for three important phases of the project: designing, construction, and operation.

How does BIM enhance the design process?

During the design phase, BIM helps to create and review multiple design scenarios and convey them to the clients while still maintaining a single model. BIM helps in creating several models without losing the design intent in the middle of the process. 

BIM helps to create information during one stage and then pass it down to the next stage. This means the designers will design the building and pass all the information to the construction team. The construction team will also add their part of information to these documents and so on. All the information is contained in a single continuously updated database. It is thus easy to maintain accuracy and integrate all project aspects during the design phase. This leads to better estimation, specification, schedules, and compliance.

How can BIM help in construction phase?

BIM was initially developed to focus on the design process. But it quickly gained fame among the construction managers and contractors also. Construction is a team effort and BIM is dramatically improving the way team members work for an enhanced outcome. According to NBS International BIM report 2016, it is expected that over 80% of the professional will adopt BIM in near future.

Few benefits of BIM for contractors include:

    • More efficient bidding and purchasing.

    • Coordinating construction sequencing.

    • Identifying collisions.

    • Visualizing what is to be built in a simulated environment.

    • Making fewer errors.

    • Higher reliability for expected field conditions.

How do owners benefit from BIM?

BIM promises effective management and operation of the project with time and cost saving. It provides a better understanding of the project to the managers and owners. If any changes are to be made in the project or BIM model, the changes are automatically integrated into the model. This leads to fewer surprises, errors, and ommissions. For owners doing multiple projects, BIM offers the method to communicate the similarities and differences between the team members. This provides consistency to all projects. The owner gets detailed model and schematics for operation, maintenance, and renovation of the project.

Our BIM Services:

Silicon Valley Infomedia Pvt Ltd is a leading CAD based firm also offering Structural BIM Services. Our BIM Drafting helps in effective designing and drafting, coordinating the designs for successful construction of the structure. Not only this, our company is also offering  BIM Outsourcing to outsource our valuable BIM services around the globe.

Apart from these, we are also into web development services. We offer Full Stack Programming from expert  Full Stack Programmer for complete web development solutions to the entire problems at affordable rates. We are also Outsourcing Full Stack Development around the world keeping utmost precision in the design standards required by the country.