Building Information Modeling in the Construction Industry

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BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
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This research reviews the building information modelling in the construction industry by providing an
overview of the application of the building information modeling in numerous industries that have
successfully implemented it

BIM in Construction Industry 2
Keywords
Business Information Modeling,
Construction Industry, project management,
the Design team
1. Introduction
1.1 Overview of BIM
Building information modelling is the
construction industry can be defined as the
process of management and generation of
the digital representation of functional and
physical characteristics of constructions.
These files contain propriety data and are
always in proprietary formats which can be
networked, exchanged, or extracted to
support decision making concerning any
construction or structure.
1.2 Context of BIM
The building information modelling can be
defined as the approach of systems to show
from construction and design reuse,
demolition, and maintenance use of
construction assets. The BIM is a newly
emerging method to facility management,
construction and design in which a digital
representation of the construction process is
being developed to enable the
interoperability and exchange of information
in digital format.
2.0 Practices and Applications of BIM
The traditional designs of the building were
hugely dependent on the two-dimensional
technical drawings such as sections,
elevations, and plans. The BIM seeks to
extend the traditional building design further
by incorporating the three spatial
dimensions such as depth, height, and width
and the fourth dimension of time. The BIM
involves the representation of the
construction by the inclusion of attributes,
relations, void-shape oriented, solid shapes,
product or generic-specific, undefined and
vague by the use of design tools which
enables the extraction of different views
from a structure for production drawing [1].
2.1 Life-cycle of BIM