The Growth of BIM When seeking to achieve excellence in the engineering, architecture, design, or consulting industry, businesses can never rest on their laurels. What was cutting edge one day, will quickly become the standard, and then before long you’re using a legacy system that’s been superseded. Building Information Modelling (BIM), is a term that you’re already familiar with, however few Australian firms have truly integrated it into their way of working. And while Australia still has a long way to go before mandating BIM on a national scale, the direction the industry is heading is clear, with plenty to gain for motivated and proactive technology focused practices. From a business standpoint, multiple studies have found that BIM implementation can result in positive ROI for practices through:
• Faster and more efficient processes • Increased productivity and speeds up delivery • Reduced uncertainty • Controlled whole-life costs and environmental data • Avoidance of rework costs • Improved safety; opportunity to secure government contracts • Reduced on-site waste • The prevention of errors. To really understand the importance of BIM, it’s necessary to understand that it’s more than just a tool or software, but an evolving system for managing the entire life-cycle of infrastructure and buildings. BIM’s scope and scale will grow through staged developments, commonly referred to as the “dimensions” of BIM.
