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Welcome to your essential guide for managing
BIM projects, helping you explore the
challenges and benefits of BIM.
Introduction
Introduction The promise of BIM
What is this guide all about? Richer information, greater value.
Let’s be clear
about BIM
The BIM
Boom
Let’s be clear about BIM It’s (still) all about collaboration
Believe the What is BIM and how does it help your business? BIM is as much about the process as the technology.
hype about
better projects
The promise
of BIM
The BIM Boom Common challenges on
It’s (still)
all about
The facts don’t lie, BIM is fast becoming the industry standard. BIM projects
collaboration What stands in the way of successful projects?
Common
challenges on
BIM projects
5 tips for
Believe the hype about better 5 tips for BIM success
BIM success projects How to effectively break down the barriers to BIM.
Introduction
Over the past few years, BIM If you take only five things away from
(Building Information Modeling) this guide, we hope that they’re as follows:
has been one of the hottest topics
1 2
Let’s be clear in construction. So many articles, BIM is nothing BIM is about a
about BIM new. But its time lot more than
books, blogs, and webinars.
So many points of view. is now, and it’s just 3D design.
changing our
The BIM
Boom Although many agree about the industry.
benefits, there remains confusion
3 4 5
Believe the around what it actually means to
Audit trails of The biggest BIM is part
hype about “do BIM” and how to make a BIM discussions and people, part
better projects project successful. approvals are between BIM and process, part
critical for a BIM non-BIM projects software, and all
The promise This guide aims to cut through project. is that BIM collaboration.
of BIM the noise and focus on the projects end up
fundamentals. with an
It’s (still) interrelated,
all about In producing this guide, we’ve cross-referenced
collaboration applied statistics from the Aconex set of data.
online collaboration platform – the
Common
challenges on world’s most widely used system
BIM projects for construction and engineering
project information and process
5 tips for management – to identify
BIM success important BIM trends and issues.
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Let’s be clear on what BIM actually is
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Let’s be clear about BIM
Because its use is evolving and growing, many
people – including those that use it day-to-day
– can find it difficult to define BIM. So here’s
what we’re talking about.
Introduction
BIM is a process the building stands,
Probably the most common and possibly even longer. BIM
misconception is that 3D design is a powerful tool for every aspect
Let’s be clear equals BIM, but that’s only part of project management - even
about BIM
of the picture. In fact, BIM after handover. In fact, the
technically doesn’t need handover of a complete and
The BIM to involve a 3D model at all. accurate data model for a building or Part Part
Boom other physical asset is arguably the process people
BIM is primarily a process. It’s real “promise” of BIM and where the
Believe the a way of creating, interrelating most value lies (see Chapter 5). All
hype about and managing all of the digital collaboration
better projects information on a project – before, The “I” is central to BIM
during and after construction. The BIM is all about information –
The promise output of that process is the Building how it is captured for the entire
of BIM Information Model – the digital lifecycle of the asset, and how
description of every aspect of a it is made available to the project
participants that work with it.
Part
It’s (still) project. That information
all about is often, but not necessarily,
software
collaboration navigated and interrogated through a Because it relies on common
3D visualization. processes and the controlled sharing
Common
of project information among team So…how to describe BIM?
challenges on
BIM projects BIM is much more versatile than its members, BIM is BIM is part process, part
predecessors – containing a deeply collaborative process.
people, part software,
a wealth of information which Effective collaboration is
5 tips for and all collaboration.
BIM success is useful and relevant to the teams essential to a successful
that interact with it at every stage of BIM project.
the process. Importantly, there is no
endpoint to BIM. The
Building Information Model will
continue to be updated for as long as Next
Find out about the BIM explosion
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The BIM Boom: 2,600% growth in 3 years
In one form or another, BIM has been in use
for decades – particularly in industries such
as aerospace and oil and gas.
Introduction
Over several years, the uptake and small, commercial as well as
of BIM within the construction
industry has been increasing
infrastructure. BIM has now moved
from the early
Explosion of BIM
Models stored on Aconex
Let’s be clear rapidly. Without question, we’re now adopters to the mainstream.
about BIM 300,000
seeing the tipping point.
It’s not just that more project teams
The BIM This becomes abundantly clear are adopting BIM. A closer look at 250,000
Boom when you analyze the volume of BIM the figures shows that the
files being stored on the Aconex size of the models has almost
200,000
Believe the collaboration platform. Aconex is doubled over the past five years. The
hype about the world’s most widely used system average file size is now 54MB, up
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Time savings Smoother handover The longer-term outcome of these
Leading firms have reported that The provision of detailed benefits is higher-quality projects
using BIM to achieve consensus on information about every aspect – projects that are better designed
Let’s be clear design concepts early in of the building continues to deliver and delivered faster, with lower risk
about BIM and fewer
development can yield up to benefits after handover.
50% time savings on a project. disputes.
The BIM ROI
Boom Clash detection A McGraw-Hill Construction report, A footnote to this is that some
and avoiding rework “The Business Value of BIM”, found of the obvious and early savings
Believe the A BIM model allows virtual that 87% of expert BIM users have come during the design and
hype about construction prior to physical seen positive returns – mainly from construction phases of a project.
better projects construction, eliminating clashes enhanced collaboration, streamlined This low-hanging fruit seems
of model components. This saves processes and increased to be what is driving firms to
The promise both time and money. productivity. adopt BIM. But buyers and users –
of BIM especially governments around the
Improved productivity Competitive advantage world – are starting to
It’s (still) There are productivity gains across In the same report, more than half appreciate that the real benefits
all about the project team, resulting from less of BIM users said that ‘offering new of BIM come through effective,
collaboration error and rework services with BIM’ was complete and accurate
and fewer RFIs for owners a significant advantage. handover – leading to significant
Common
and contractors to handle. cost savings in managing
challenges on
BIM projects facilities. This is a key point worth
further exploration.
5 tips for
BIM success
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The “promise” of BIM
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The promise of BIM: Better lifecycle
management
As we’ve seen from the previous chapter, the payoffs of BIM can
be considerable. However, the real promise of BIM is something
that often eludes project teams – full lifecycle management.
Introduction
Information leakage its useful life), maximizing value
Typically, information on a project through the longest and most
is accumulated with limited expensive phase makes business
Let’s be clear cross-referencing or linkage of the sense. Collaborative BIM promises to
about BIM
data. As the information is passed ensure that all information is Lifecycle management
from team to team through the seamlessly transitioned from one on BIM project
The BIM phases of a project, there is often phase to another, resulting in an
Boom information ‘leakage’. For the owner, asset with a set of information far
Information Captured/Lost
this leads to pain points such as, “Is richer, and of far greater value.
Believe the my handover data complete? Is it
hype about accurate? Can Typical project
better projects I use it?” information
management
The promise Seamless transition
of BIM When a linked data set is created
and passed from team to team Time
It’s (still) as a project progresses, no data
Design Construction Operations
all about is lost, and maximum value
collaboration is delivered. Since only about 10% of
the lifecycle cost of the
Common
challenges on
physical asset is in construction
BIM projects (the other 90% being in managing
and maintaining the asset during
5 tips for
BIM success
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The importance of collaboration
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It’s (still) all about collaboration
The business benefits of BIM are clear. What’s also
becoming clear is how central collaboration is to
successfully running a project with BIM.
Introduction
An article in Architectural When things went wrong, the
Record magazine, “BIM Lawsuit contractor sued the owner, the
Offers Cautionary Tale”, owner sued the architect, and the
Let’s be clear underlines this point. The article insurer involved the MEP engineer.
about BIM
focuses on a lawsuit over Everyone ended up spending out
construction of a new university of pocket – to the tune of millions
The BIM building in Denver, Colorado. The of dollars.
Boom project was designed under the
assumption that ‘doing BIM’ In this regard, little has changed. BIM
Believe the was nothing more than model projects, like any other, still need an
hype about creation and management – audit trail of every
better projects but communication and exchange, every decision and every
collaboration were apparently poor. approval. That’s why
The promise This assumption that BIM alone BIM is as much about process
of BIM would somehow cover as it is about technology.
collaboration proved costly.
It’s (still)
all about
Common
challenges on
BIM projects
process as it is about technology.”
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BIM success
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The common issues on BIM projects
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Common challenges when managing
BIM models
Before jumping in with both feet, project teams should be aware
of some of the common challenges that companies face when
creating and collaborating around their BIM models.
Introduction
Based on Aconex’s discussions with
BIM users around the world, here are
the most common issues:
1 Managing the large file sizes
“BIM and 3D files are huge, often
greater than 50MB. Email can’t
4 Problems linking models
to other project data
“We have lots of other
7 Viewing part of a model
“How do we give a
subcontractor a view of a
Let’s be clear handle this and FTP doesn’t provide information outside the model, particular part of the model for him
about BIM
the control we need. We need to be like 2D drawings, RFIs, spec sheets, to comment on it or resolve an issue?
able to move these files securely and and manuals. How do I don’t want to send
The BIM efficiently among parties.” we link these documents into a 450-megabyte file.”
Boom the model so we can hand over a
tools
from different authoring
what I’m handing over to the
client is adequate to satisfy
my obligations so I can move
The promise get approval of “The 3D model is great, but we still on to the next job? I need them
of BIM a model that is generated by need to publish, distribute to have all the information
different authoring tools and and track lots of 2D floor plans, they require to start running
It’s (still) constantly changing from elevations and details. How do we do the asset.”
all about every angle?” that? People don’t carry around 3D
collaboration holographic projections!” By considering these
Common
challenges on 3 Long review cycle times
“How do we reduce cycle times
on clash resolution? 6 Archiving point-in-time
models from joint
challenges early, all participants will
increase their chances
of delivering a successful
BIM projects
Reviews take place on set compilation “We know individual BIM project.
5 tips for intervals, but between those 3D software tracks all changes.
BIM success intervals there’s a lag. That’s where But we have an overall model that
our risk lies. We need more real-time has been generated from different
resolution of clashes.” authoring tools, and we need to save
point-in-time models for sign-off and
approval purposes.”
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Tips for BIM success
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Five tips for success with BIM
So, having read all about successfully managing
BIM projects and the benefits it can bring to your
business, here are our top 5 tips for BIM success.
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