The application of BIM has created an evident technological and procedural shift within the current Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry (AEC . Admittedly, BIM is still at its primitive stage as there are still many aspects of the software need to be developed, as well as the majority of the firms still prefer the conventional design process.
The first graph shown above is made National BIM Report (NBS) in 2015 to indicate the amount of BIM awareness and usage. By 2014, only 5% of the firms are not aware of the BIM, and half of the remaining 95% are still just being aware of BIM. Firms which actually use BIM for their projects takes up to 48%. This numbers are looking positive and promising, as more people have noticed the benefits of BIM and decide to switch from conventional design process to BIM.
As the second graph above indicated, more people are planning to use BIM in 5 years. This is understandable, as most of the firms still have doubts about whether it is necessary to make the switch at the current stage. But slowly and surely, firms in general have seen the benefits of BIM.
Advantages:
Increase the quality of drawings
"2 lines doesn`t make a wall, a wall element makes a wall." Whereas the conventional design process would allocate more unnecessary time on tedious modification of a 2D drawing, with Revit, you can jump between 2D drawings and 3D drawings seamlessly. When making modifications to the Revit model, 2D drawings change simultaneously. As a result, we do not have to correct each floor plans when making changes to the model. It would save a lot of time, and minimize the errors.
Improve Collaboration.
AEC industry works most efficiently when collaboration is optimized. However, it is barely the case for conventional design process. Many disciplines would spend so much time on checking and making sure whether what they have seen is the final version of the design. But it is not a issue for BIM. When working on a project, different disciplines can work on the same model from different aspect, which maximize the collaboration.
Visualization.
BIM includes many tools such as sunlight analysis that can be used by the architects and engineers to optimize the building energy performance while designing. Once the model is done, sheets can be created and presented to the clients almost instantly.
Revolve conflict
One of the problems many construction firms run into is that when constructing on site, ductwork or electrical conduit may run into beams and columns. This apparently would waste unnecessary time and money. With BIM, such issue would be resolved because BIM would automatically detect any of those clashes within the model.
Here are several main advantages among all the benefits of using BIM. Certainly it still has a long way to go, but it aims as a good direction that can improve our productivity and collaboration.
Link:
http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/10072/57078/89620_1.pdf;jsessionid=A96E4261B27335543D77039D741CF8FC?sequence=1
http://lineshapespace.com/building-information-modeling-top-10-benefits-of-bim/
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