Building Information Modeling is the process of generating and managing building construction data during its life cycle period. BIM can be used to describe the entire building life cycle including the processes of construction and facility operation.

One of BIM's strongest points is to incorporate real-world data to improve the accuracy, quality, and speed of architectural projects, as well as the management of the finished buildings. The process produces the Building Information Model (BIM), which encompasses properties of building components, spatial relationships, building geometry and geographic regulations.

BIM is a building design methodology characterized by the creation and use of coordinated, internally consistent computable information about a building project in design and construction. BIM makes a reliable digital representation of the building available for design decision making, high-quality construction document production, construction planning, and performance predictions, and cost estimates.

Advantages of BIM Services

• Coordination with different components of the building lifecycle to recognize, analyze and eliminate conflicts.
• High quality and accurate documentation of construction process.
• Minimize building lifecycle to increase interaction between Architects, Engineers and Contractors
• Enables pre-fabrication of different components of the construction to minimize design lifecycle
• Cutting project cost my eliminating waste of construction material.
• Improved construction management.
• Produces accurate quantity take-offs.

BIM Services provides the potential for a virtual information model to be handed from Design Team (architects, surveyors, consulting engineers, and others) to Contractor and Subcontractors and then to the Owner, each adding their own additional discipline-specific knowledge and tracking of changes to the single model. BIM Services are revolutionizing the AEC industry by virtual construction of the project even before moving to the construction site. Building information modeling (BIM) technology is used for the entire building life cycle, including the facility operation and maintenance.

The Author, Steve Jack, has been working with a BIM 4D Services company for the past 10 years and has executed BIM projects gloablly. For more information on BIM Services visit the company website http://www.bim4dservices.com/

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