Around the world, Building Information Modeling (BIM) is increasingly gaining the attention of organizations involved in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) as well as the owners and operators of buildings and other structures. It is definitely the talk about in the Building and Construction Industry.
But what is BIM? What does it do and what are the benefits the industry can get from using it. Some people mistakenly think of BIM as just a new variety of software. BIM is actually a process that relies on information-rich models to help owners and AEC service providers to more efficiently plan, design, construct and manage building and infrastructure products. It is a process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle from conceptualization to fabrication and erection. It involves representing a design as objects vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void space oriented (like the shape of a room) that carry their geometry, relations and attributes.
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| Charles M. Eastman "Tekla has been BIM even before the name was created" |
The term "BIM" was originated from Charles M. Eastman, a professor at Georgia Tech, US. It is believed that the term "Building Information Model" or BIM is basically the same as "Building Product Model" which Eastman has used extensively in his book and papers since the late 1970s. In engineering, the term "Product Model" means "data model" or "information model".
Benefits of BIM
There are so many benefits from using the BIM process for Building Contractors, Building Designers, Cost Engineers, and Project Owners:
- BIM provides a good estimation during bidding and procurement
- BIM improves coordination in building sequencing
- BIM helps in effective marketing presentation of construction approaches
- BIM helps in identifying possible conflicts that may arise during bidding construction
- BIM helps to lessen the amount of errors, thus, saving costs and resources
- BIM allows easy adjustment within the project process, it allows more "what if" process.
- BIM helps clients and end-users to understand and visualize the end product
- BIM helps in easy and productive communication within different discipline that are involve in the project
- BIM helps in efficient monitoring, thus, lowering the operating costs
- BIM model allows for better cost estimation of human resources, raw materials and structural components.
- BIM allows designer to use sophisticated web-based tools which connects the project's program to other BIM tool like Tekla
Highly detailed as-built building information models enable the highest level of constructability and production control. Centralizing model and non-model based data into the Tekla model allows for more collaborative and integrated project management and delivery from conceptual design to construction.
Tekla Structures BIM software provides an accurate, dynamic, and data-rich 3D environment that can be shared by contractors, structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, as well as concrete detailers and manufacturers.
Tekla Structures BIM software provides an accurate, dynamic, and data-rich 3D environment that can be shared by contractors, structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, as well as concrete detailers and manufacturers.
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