Building information modeling (BIM) is the creation and use of coordinated information for design, production of high quality construction documents, predicting performance, cost estimation and construction planning. Building information modeling (BIM) is a model based technology linked with a database of project information to enable perfect communication between all stakeholders associated with the construction process.
BIM Services provides the potential for a virtual information model to be handed from Design Team (architects, surveyors, consulting engineers, and others) to contractor and Subcontractors and then to the owner, each one is adding their own additional discipline-specific knowledge and tracking of changes to the single model. The result is anticipated to greatly reduce the information loss that occurs when a new team takes the project as well as in delivering extensive information to owners of complex structures far away from that which they are currently familiar to having.
Advantages of BIM Services:
� Compress design lifecycle by increasing collaboration between owners, architects, engineers and contractors.
� High quality and accurate documentation of construction process
� BIM technology is used for the entire building life cycle, including the facility operation and maintenance
� Production of high quality accurate construction documents
� Co-Ordinate different services to avoid conflicts
� Remove clutter on the site by accurate quality take-offs
� Improving Quality of construction by enabling pre-fabrication
� Coordination with different components of the building lifecycle to recognize, analyze and eliminate conflicts.
� Minimize building lifecycle to increase interaction between architects, engineers and contractors
� Construction management
� Cutting project cost may eliminating waste of construction material.
� Improved construction management

The main and important advantage of BIM is the ability to create construction and determine whether the various design elements will work before they are included in the field. All four major producers of BIM software packages have beneficial qualities, but none is fully compatible with the others. The most logical solution - purchasing a copy of the program from each manufacturer - is expensive. The only reasonable solution is source- code sharing by the major software developers, which would create software compatibility.

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