Saturday 22 February 2014

Building Information Modelling–A New Way of Working


BIM (Building Information Modeling) is really a new way of approaching the appearance and documentation of building projects. In other words, building information modeling is the process of generating, as well as handling, digital demonstrations from the physical and well-designed characteristics of a particular project. Thus, the resultant BIM design becomes a shared knowledge resource that we use to support the decision-making process in regards to a facility, right from the first conceptual phase, up to the design and construction phase, through its operational existence, and the final demolition.

The concept of BIMmodeling is not a new thing; it is something that has existed for a long time, since the 1970’s. However, the term BIMmodeling itselfhas not been used much until Autodesk released the white paper titled “Building Information Modeling”. Thus, the new term was popularized and standardized as the common name for digital representation of building processes, or as others would like to term it, virtual building or BIM 3D modeling. This was created to be able to facilitate the exchange, as well as interoperability, of information within digital format.

BIM design tools permit the designers to extract different views from the building model,which allows for the production of sketches. These drawings give an extremely realistic and correct concept of the final product since the views provide a single definition of every object instance and are always consistent.

BIM makes the entire design and drafting process quite simple and smooth as this defines objects as guidelines and relations to additional objects. Therefore, if any kind of object is altered, dependent objects automatically change as well. This saves the architectural CAD services considerable time and energy.

BIM services involve three main components: building, information and modeling. Building comprises the enter lifecycle of the building. It is considered as the design, operations and the building process. Another component of BIM (information) involves all the information about a building as well as its lifecycle. Finally, we have the Modeling component. This is defined as the process of defining and simulating the building and its delivery. This operation utilizes integrated tools to achieve the overall goals.

BIM Construction is particularly important to businesses because it helps them gain a competitive advantage. According to the experts, building information modeling BIM helps firms to gain greater insights for creating and delivering infrastructure and building projects with greater precision, economically, and much faster. It also helps firms produce superior quality work. BIMmodeling services also help in automatic generation of drawing and reports, schedule simulation, facility management, design analysis, and much more.

BIM building generally eliminates data redundancy because it supports a distributed team so that people, tools, and tasks can share information effectively throughout the building and infrastructure process. With this, a firm is able to make better decisions apart from enabling data re-entry, miscommunication, data loss, and transitional errors. Good BIM services should empower the drawing, design, construction and execution of all forms of buildings and any other facilities being constructed. Whether you are involved in building conventional, or unique inspiring projects, BIM services can do wonders for you.  The only thing you need to do is to contract one of the best BIM modeling service providers so that you can save cost and construct high quality buildings.

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