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never before. It is now possible to create walkthroughs of a building, add decoration, implement stores, and show off selling space – all digitally. This ability to visualise a building in real-time helps a team present the project with much more clarity. These features of BIM demonstrate how it can transform construction, especially at scale. Large scale housing developments could be designed much quicker and more effectively by utilising BIM, with one model being used and adapted for the various challenges that such a build creates, such as flooring.
BIM ISSUES BIM, of course, is by no means perfect. It has its issues – issues that some businesses regard to be so large that they haven’t yet adopted it as an industry standard. One problem that’s often brought up among critics of BIM is that of authorship. As more and more consultants and teams of various disciplines get involved, the distinction of who authored what becomes blurred. The mark of where one consul- tant’s work on the plan ends also loses clarity, which can quite easily muddy waters when it comes to an issue of liabil- ity, for example.
Another common issue among teams and consultancies that haven’t yet adopted BIM is the practicality of actually imple-
menting it. BIM software comes with a steep learning curve and finding time to educate employees on how they can use it and implement into their day-to-day work can seem a big task.
THE FUTURE OF BIM
Building information modelling is widely expected to become the norm in the construction industry over the next 10 years, and as it does so, a vast improve- ment on industry-wide skillsets will occur. We may also see a saturation in the market of BIM software, which could end up creating one ‘industry standard’ programme.
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the future of BIM as aligned with virtual reality (VR). The possibilities of VR and BIM combined are an attractive prospect for designers. For example a virtual reality headset can allow a client to walk through a building design, ‘experiencing’ each area first hand.
The advent of building information modelling has changed the future of construction. It provides teams and consultancies with a scope and supply that traditional 2D design methods never could and over the next few years could trans- form the industry as we know it.
Graham Hewitt is managing director at Raised Floor Solutions
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