BIM-Building Information Modeling is widely gaining Success in the construction industry. With intensified adoption in the coming year, there are rapidly increasing the opportunities too in the AEC industry. In today’s era, BIM is no more an option, but it’s a necessity.

Why only BIM?

Construction woes get a backseat with BIM-Building Information Modeling. It provides more creative usage of resources, optimization of workflows and also leads to effective productivity and profitability. It also enables all involved parties to evaluate the similar information at the same time through the interoperability among various technological platforms. Thus, it leads to better outcomes through more efficient communication and collaboration.

It may be project management, land surveying, road designing, structure design or construction- the role of BIM has implicitly become indispensable for exceeding the collective results. Adopting BIM, owners can enhance building quality, immensely reduce building lifecycle costs, better experience design projects from beginning to end, optimize operational proficiency and improve occupancy and use rates.

The construction industry uses BIM to control the productivity of a construction process. BIM brings the opportunity to try out solutions in advance before building the structure on site. Project participants can understand and examine the design more efficiently, which helps guarantee its accuracy as well as completeness, visualize and also evaluate alternatives concerning cost and other project parameters.

Let’s Check-out the BIM-

B-Building

Building Information Modeling is a portion of the construction industry for the time now. It is the method of designing a building collaboratively utilizing one intelligible system of computer models rather than as separate sets of drawings. All types of constructions such as buildings, roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, etc., apply BIM.

I-Information

Information is the heart of BIM-Building Information Modeling. BIM changes the way information about the entire lifecycle of a project. It helps in making available both visual and non-visual information related to every aspect of construction. BIM enables designers, engineers, builders, manufacturers, and owners gain a thorough understanding of a project much before its actual construction. Thus allowing modern refinement, avoiding errors and creating efficiency.

M-Modeling

We can merely say that the M in BIM stands for Model & also Management. Using Building Information Modeling, not only a simplified version of an object, structure, building or construction, but also the process of development that seems organized and controlled more efficiently.

Now let’s discover the levels of BIM-

Do you know currently how many Levels of BIM exists?

levels of bim

Currently, there are 4 levels of Building Information Modeling.

Level 0

BIM Level 0 represents a lack of it. At Level 0 there is no collaboration among the parties comparing information about a built asset. Most data like 2D drawings, and also information exchange is done using paperwork.

Level 1

When data has considered as a form of structure, means BIM has reached Level 1. The CAD is now either 3D or 2D, and some different parties achieve collaboration.

Level 2

At Level 2, collaboration introduces between the teams and the team follows the process of Building Information Modeling. However, there is a lack of a single source of data, but any data collected about a built asset gets shared.

Level 3

At level 3, complete and total collaboration in planning, construction and operational life cycle of a built asset gets achieved. The team shares collects and stores the data using a single source of data. This universal approach to constructed asset data is known as ‘Open BIM’ – hence, this is the construction industry’s ultimate goal.

Future of AI and BIM-

With constant technological progressions, next-generation 6D BIM is one of the necessary aspects of producing a flawless futuristic construction. Nevertheless, what is going to revolutionize and has now done in many cases, is the technologies and the processes that digitize the whole method by real-time visualization?

AI has the perspective to help reimagine how to perform Building Information Modeling. Digging into a bit deeper the construction industry is set to serve in two separate ways.

The first one is that AI will support various functions familiar to all business, like human resources. Secondly, AI can support business management to manage demand forecasting and scheduling.

The utilization of AI techniques is to optimize development and quality control experiment of products and design structures. Also, to be more productive construction has to shift from being a conceptual model to a constructible model. Thus, this is where technologies like augmented reality or mixed reality play a significant role in empowering the digital engineering process.

Furthermore, along with this, modern building materials, such as self-healing cement, aerogels, and nanomaterials, as well as progressive construction approaches, like 3D printing and pre-assembled modules, can lower the expenses and speed up construction while enhancing quality and safety.