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Getting Control of Building Control Through BIM

Practical Considerations for Integrating BIM and Building Control Demonstrating Building Control compliance can quickly turn into a panicked search for information and tangled mess of paperwork. Fortunately there is a solution: Building Information Modelling. By its very nature BIM lends itself to supporting Building Control, which is the process associated with demonstrating compliance with building…

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Are You Experiencing Bad BIM?: Rescuing Difficult BIM Projects

Building Information Modelling is gaining momentum on a global scale within the construction industry.  With this increase in BIM adoption, we have come across a number of projects that are facing serious delivery challenges which can be attributed to bad BIM processes.  In the vast majority of cases, the root causes of BIM problem projects…

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Staying Out of the BIM Red Zone – Early Indicators that a BIM Project is Headed for Trouble

BIM projects can go bad? We received feedback after our last post on rescuing difficult BIM projects from a number of people asking us to expand on the tell-tale signs of bad BIM. Before diving into this topic, the first thing we need to address is the fact that, shock horror, BIM projects can go…

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Getting Over the First Hurdle: Developing a Business Case for BIM Integration in Your Company – Part 2

The reasons and key influencers for BIM adoption are set out in the Vision and Strategy sections of a Business Case for BIM. Commenting on Part 1 of our posts on developing a Business Case for BIM, Su Butcher ‏(@SuButcher) of construction industry social media consultancy Just Practising, highlighted the BIM4M2 business case resource ‘The…

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Getting Over the First Hurdle: Developing a Business Case for BIM Integration in Your Company – Part 1

  Is a Business Case for BIM necessary? Have you ever heard the statement ‘BIM is a no brainier, why doesn’t everyone do it’?  I must admit that I held this view in my early explorations with BIM.  However, as I delved deeper into BIM as a disruptive business process (and continue to do so),…

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