BIM – Building Information Modeling is the working methodology that will produce profound innovation in the construction world in the coming years. Even if today the figures directly involved in the BIM revolution are those who deal with building design, BIM design is only the first phase of the change. Construction is only the first sector that could benefit from the advantages of this new methodology.
Not just BIM design
By generating a virtual model that contains all the information of a work, BIM will not only concern the project phase, but the entire life cycle of the work itself: construction, management and maintenance and demolition and disposal will be ” contained “in the same information model used for the design.
If today BIM involves large clients and professional engineering and architecture firms, it is because this is what the Italian legislation imposes (Ministerial Decree 560/2017, the so-called BIM Decree). However, the BIM design phase will be followed by the implementation phases of Building Information Modeling in the executive context, involving construction and plant engineering companies, construction sites of all sizes and durations and management of real estate assets.
BIM to dominate the market
By streamlining processes, optimizing costs, increasing productivity and reducing time and errors, BIM is a real promoter of change. Adapting your organization quickly and consciously to the use of this new working method can be the key to dominating your market.
Being involved in the change of one’s working method, even anticipating the times defined by Italian legislation, becomes a strategic choice for all links in the construction chain. The goal should be to get to know this new working methodology and identify, among the tools available, those most appropriate to your organizational structure, in order to be able to take advantage of all its advantages as soon as possible.
BIM not only in construction
The spread of BIM design in construction is highlighting two characteristic elements of this working methodology that make it desirable to use it in other sectors as well:
- the integration between the processes, that is, its collaborative nature that allows you to optimize times and to allow different professionals to dialogue;
- the ability to guarantee the validity of the data entered in the model at all times of the life cycle of a product.
Tracing and certifying production chains, analysing in real time the performance of processes and individual activities or having information sets that are always updated to guarantee products are activities that can find an effective and practical tool for implementation in the BIM methodology.