Building The Future With Building Information Modelling
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is not a new concept in the construction industry, but it is certainly not being used to full effect. It has the potential to be used for a wide range of outcomes – everything from design to materials optimisation. The COVID-19 pandemic and work-from-home culture accelerated digitisation on this front, with resounding effects for the future of the industry.
WHAT IS BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING?
BIM is a digital process that assimilates information, technology, and data to manage whole-lifecycle construction, architectural, and engineering projects. It creates a digital blueprint of every element of a project to define design, supply, execution, and maintenance of new builds and building alterations.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACILITIES MANAGERS AND BIM
Digital processes are a hallmark of the future – and failure to commit to meaningful digital transformation can mean lost competitive edge, wastefulness, and delays. It also creates a more collaborative work environment for stakeholders across the building process for ensured co-ordination and high-level performance.
By connecting every stage – from brief to build and maintenance beyond – facilities managers are given a more streamlined way of structuring their tasks within the built environment to maximum and strategic effect.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF BIM?
Resource Efficiency and Reduced Wastefulness
Data-inspired modelling means easily gauged efficiencies – allowing architects and construction professionals to predict and adapt processes around efficiencies. This means reduced capital expenditure in the build process, as well as reduced operational expenditure in the long term. This presents exciting opportunities for carbon reduction, mitigated costs, and improved profitability.
Workflow and Supply Chain Optimisation
BIM has a bearing on every stage of the lifecycle of a build and therein lies its power. Digital simplicity across design, planning, building, and future maintenance co-ordinates professionals and engages clients for outcomes geared towards excellence.
Improved communication and collaboration results in expedited building processes. This also links in with resource efficiency – saving time and costs. It also creates a workable digital blueprint that empowers the elimination of issues in advance of builds, which affects wastefulness.
The simplification presented by BIM is not limited to the practicalities of a build. Seasoned builders, architects, project managers, and FM professionals know that good administration around construction is a golden thread through any project. BIM and digital transformation provide a detailed, tracked project history and record-keeping, with reduced miscommunication across all stakeholders.
A Perfect Fit For Smart Building Futures
As smart buildings (incorporating smart technologies) become the norm, so smart building processes complete the picture with long-term applicability. BIM is a core component of digital transformation for the building industry. It is scalable, unhindered by multiple locations and applications, and lays the groundwork for intelligent building and facilities maintenance.
Sustainability
As touched on above, creating a digital model creates data-inspired metrics to manage energy efficiency and carbon cutting. In turn, this creates the potential for meaningful, measurable changes for environmental sustainability.
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