Monday, January 26, 2015

B3 - Week 4 - Future Advantages of BIM/Revit - Kevin Saldivar

BIM programs such as Revit currently have great advantages for many different fields of expertise in the engineering workplace.  The major improvements that will likely take place are in user interface and organization.  This will mainly be beneficial to owners due to the amount of useful information and technology that can be applied to an owner’s role.  When owners are able to become more involved with the design process the amount of opportunities for mistakes, and therefore increased costs, is reduced.  This will be reduced since the owners would be able to directly see the effects of changes on overall costs and the effect on the schedule.  There will also be improvements in the areas of design that affect the architects and engineers.  The software will only continue to improve the accuracy of calculations that can be completed as well additional calculations.  The use of BIM has many advantages to the construction industry as a whole and will only continue to improve.

Comments:
Anthony:
I agree with you about the advantages to the owners, using the quantities to accurately check for the most cost effective solution.  I also agree that the software will continue to develop, I did not remember to mention how this could be beneficial for checking codes as well but this is a good point.

Ami:
It seems that the obvious and reoccurring theme is the major benefits BIM could have on the owner’s portion of projects in the future.  I am not so sure that the third bullet you provide about customer service belongs in this post, mainly because this is already taking place in practice.

Rikki:

I agree with the first point you bring up, however I believe this holds true for many programs when first introduced.  This issue will be reduced in the future due to the programs becoming more fine-tuned and intuitive.  The second point you speak of should also be resolved in the future with program updates or possibly even plugins.  

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