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What is BIM?
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What is BIM? Well let’s share a little

story about BIM! 😊

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a set of technologies,

processes and policies enabling multiple stakeholders to
collaboratively design, construct and operate a Facility in
virtual space. As a term, BIM has grown tremendously over
the years and is now the ‘current expression of digital
innovation’ across the construction industry. It is an intelligent
3D model-based process that usually requires a BIM
execution plan for owners, architects, engineers, and
contractors or construction professionals to more e ciently
plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and
infrastructure.
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Unfortunately, building smaller

construction mockups just does
not give us all the necessary
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information for full scale real life
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In our design and construction
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industry we rarely get the luxury to build full scale
 prototypes – every project is unique and we build
them at full scale cost – including the cost of all
mistakes and rework.

Since our projects are much bigger and take too

long for us to consider full scale prototypes this can
has meant that our projects can cost 30% (or even
more) more than they should!

Can you imagine someone building the Burj Khalifa

(the world’s tallest building) first in a remote location
before building the real one in downtown Dubai?
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Not likely, is it?

THEN HERE COMES BIM!

With BIM, we CAN build a complete and full scale

digital prototype at a minimal cost “in the computer”
(zoolander quote – anyone?).
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industry. We believe that the BIM transformation
have the most impact our industry has ever seen.

Companies and governments have realized this and

are mandating BIM.
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The UK government believed that this would be the

“digital transformation” to cut 33% of the cost of
projects.

So, what is BIM again?  

Well, it turns out that BIM is a lot more than just

building the digital prototype.

BIM can also result in a huge number of design and

construction uses for that model.

Penn State lists 25 BIM Uses, along with the

frequency and benefits of each, in their BIM
Execution Planning guide.

Now, with so many possible BIM Uses it can be

challenging to plan and execute the right BIM for
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Article Name What Is BIM?

Description Description of Building Information Modeling. Article

contains the de nition of BIM and explains the bene ts
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 Here’s a “What is BIM” story that even your
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Grandma could understand!:

What is BIM (Building Information Modeli…

Modeli…
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When I was at school… my technology teacher Mr

Ormrod taught me all about the benefits of building
prototypes. I learnt that building something quickly
at low cost before actually building it at full scale
would save time and money.

In most other
industries, such
as manufacturing
cars or phones,
they make many
prototypes all
built and rebuilt to perfection before production is
even started.
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Getting the right BIM plan in place is mandatory – we

believe that this should be a collaborative process
between the Architect, Engineer, Contractor and
Owner.
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With a great BIMplan, we can now implement what
 we learned at school within our industry – thank you
Mr Ormrod!
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