Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Blog 2, Group E: BIM for Owners and Facility Managers

There are several advantages that owners and managers of the construction field can have using platforms of Building information modeling (BIM) nowadays. This type of softwares, such as Autodesk Revit, Intergraph SmarPlan 3D, and other variety of BIM programs  have a great ability to save time and reduce the possibility of errors in projects of engineering. The ability of these programs to save time is very good, this type of technology has revolutionized a market that once was all done manually, which took to be able to finish a project many types of skills as well as time since only one person could work in that drawings. With the arrival of BIM, reduce the possibility of errors is much larger today than were before, companies have nowadays departments focused only on the quality of the drawings, in which minimum error can also be repaired. This type of software is involved in all parts of the construction nowadays, not only drawings of buildings are made with this technology, but also is used to produce of assembly and maintenance of structures, cargo moving and another infinity of designs types.

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I did a technical degree in structures at the same time when I was in high school in Brazil, and there were some classes of the course that we could not use any kind of software, all drawings were done by hand. Doing that you can see how hard was that time before BIM, a lot of problems ended up happening. First, you should do your project in a big table specifically for this purpose, You had to hold the ends of the drawings on the table with a kind of tape, and often it would cut your sheet when you try to get it out. Another problem is if you had an error in the end of the drawing you could not just delete and do it again as we do in BIM software, you should redo all the work from the beginning. Too much of other problems could happen at that time. After graduate in this Structures degree I worked for years as a designer of steel structures, and when you talk with senior people who worked at that time drawing things by hand, and today doing  this in BIM softawares you can see how many it changed the field of construction.


I know that this kind of technology will continue to evolve with the various companies working in this ans it is a really usefull tool, ofcourse with a lot of other tools for the future, I think that the BIM will continue to be a great tool for construction of Intelligent Buildings.

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  1. I really like how you indicated how BIM benefit the Owners and mangers because they are two very important aspects in the construction process. However, the chapter is about the contractors and how they could benefit from BIM, as we are going to be part of the contractors in the future, the chapter have told us what BIM tools such as clash detection, BIM detailed building modeling we could use as a advantage in the construction phase. Furthermore, you could also put some reached data on and make your post more persuasive. All in all, good work for you!

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