Building Information Modeling For Dummies E-Book

Stefan Mordue

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 633

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Everything you need to make the most of building information modeling

If you're looking to get involved in the world of BIM, but don't quite know where to start, Building Information Modeling For Dummies is your one-stop guide to collaborative building using one coherent system of computer models rather than as separate sets of drawings. Inside, you'll find an easy-to-follow introduction to BIM and hands-on guidance for understanding drivers for change, the benefits of BIM, requirements you need to get started, and where BIM is headed.

The future of BIM is bright—it provides the industry with an increased understanding of predictability, improved efficiency, integration and coordination, less waste, and better value and quality. Additionally, the use of BIM goes beyond the planning and design phase of the project, extending throughout the building life cycle and supporting processes, including cost management, construction management, project management, and facility operation. Now heavily adopted in the U.S., Hong Kong, India, Singapore, France, Canada, and countless other countries, BIM is set to become a mandatory practice in building work in the UK, and this friendly guide gives you everything you need to make sense of it—fast.

• Demonstrates how BIM saves time and waste on site
• Shows you how the information generated from BIM leads to fewer errors on site
• Explains how BIM is based on data sets that describe objects virtually, mimicking the way they'll be handled physically in the real world
• Helps you grasp how the integration of BIM allows every stage of the life cycle to work together without data or process conflict

Written by a team of well-known experts, this friendly, hands-on guide gets you up and running with BIM fast.

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Building Information Modeling For Dummies®

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Building Information Modeling For Dummies®

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Table of Contents

Cover

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Building Information Modeling

Chapter 1: Defining Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Explaining BIM in Plain Terms

Examining the A-B-Cs of BIM

Understanding the Requirements for BIM

Considering BIM Plans and Strategies

Measuring the Real-World Benefits of BIM

Encouraging BIM in Your Workplace

Chapter 2: Explaining the Building Part of BIM: It’s Not Just Buildings

Understanding What Building Means

Seeing How BIM Can Help You

Looking at Infrastructure and BIM

Developing Building Processes and BIM

Chapter 3: Examining the Information Part of BIM

Comprehending What Information Means

Realizing That Information Is the Heart of BIM

Maintaining Information in the Model

Chapter 4: Discussing the Modeling Part of BIM (and Management Too)

Grasping What Modeling Means

Confirming BIM Is a Process

Managing the Model: Federate to Collaborate

Chapter 5: Grasping the Fundamentals and Understanding What BIM Is

Figuring Out the Why of BIM

Shaping Cooperation and Shared Information

Transforming Information and Communication

Presenting All the Incentives of BIM

Part II: Creating the Foundations for BIM

Chapter 6: Looking at the Digital World Around You

Targeting Technology

Identifying the Need for Change

Defining Your Requirements

Selecting BIM Tools

Chapter 7: Preparing the Foundations for BIM

Progressing through the Levels of Maturity

Providing the Right Structure

Preparing for BIM Technology

Chapter 8: Setting Up a Collaborative BIM Workflow

Getting the Lowdown on Collaboration

Modeling in the Parametric Domain

Making Life Easier with Digital Information Management

Singing Off the Same Hymn Sheet: Information Exchange

Part III: Understanding BIM Requirements and Developing BIM Processes

Chapter 9: Mandating BIM in the UK and across the Globe

Interpreting the Requirements

Leading BIM in the United States

Growing BIM Standards Internationally

Keeping Up to Date

Chapter 10: Standardizing the Modeling of BIM Objects

Figuring Out What BIM Objects Are

Obtaining BIM Objects through Object Libraries

Recognizing BIM Objects

Supporting Standardization

Enabling Interoperability

Chapter 11: Collaborating through BIM Requirements

Running through Open Standards

Steering the Industry toward IFC

Reviewing the Key Standards

Coordinating Information

Chapter 12: Encouraging BIM in Your Office or On-Site

Adopting BIM as a People-led Process

Encouraging BIM Champions

Changing Hearts and Minds

Training and Supporting Everyone

Chapter 13: Developing BIM Plans and Strategies

Getting Started with Your BIM Strategy

Setting Up a BIM Business Case

Combining Information into a BIM Execution Plan

Modeling Your Plan after Successful BIM Processes

Chapter 14: Considering the Issues that BIM Presents

Managing Change in Your Business

Clarifying the Legal Implications of BIM

Ensuring Your Business Thrives with BIM: Engineering Collaboration

Part IV: Measuring the Real-World Benefits of BIM

Chapter 15: Evaluating BIM Benefits and Investment

Arriving at a Digital Understanding of Construction

Calculating the Savings

Separating Reality from the BIM Wash

Chapter 16: Using BIM On-Site and BIM for Health and Safety

Examining Contractor-Led Project Teams: Planning for Quality

Requiring BIM Use On-Site

Reducing Risks On-Site: BIM for Health and Safety

Chapter 17: Identifying All the Users of BIM

Anticipating the Information You Need

Identifying the Right Information for Initial Users

Building Digitally

Strengthening the Contractor Supply Chain

Managing Built Assets

Part V: Exploring the Future of BIM

Chapter 18: Building the Future of Construction

Seeing Trends and Looking Ahead

Surveying the Construction Landscape: Overcoming the Status Quo

Disrupting an Old-Fashioned Industry

Approaching a New Era of Procurement

Chapter 19: Eyeing the Possibilities: The Future of BIM

Thinking about Collaboration

Building Digitally

Strengthening Your BIM Foundations

Preparing Yourself for the Future of BIM

Chapter 20: Forecasting How New Technology Will Drive BIM

Providing a Digital Catalyst

Revolutionizing Construction with Big Data

Connecting Everything Together: The Internet of Things

Part VI: The Part of Tens

Chapter 21: Ten Types of BIM Tools, Software, and Platforms to Consider

BIM Authoring Tools/Platform

BIM Analysis Tools

Specification Tools

File-Sharing and Collaboration Tools

Construction Management Tools

Model Viewers and Checkers

Quantity Takeoff and Estimating Tools

Shop Drawing and Fabrication Tools

Facility Management

Administration Tools

Chapter 22: Ten of the Best BIM Resources

Using Social Media

Watching Videos

Attending Trade Shows and Events

Reading Blog Posts

Perusing Publications and Journals

Tapping into the Government

Signing Up for Software User Groups

Joining Associations and Forums

Visiting Virtual BIM Libraries

Heading to Summer School

Chapter 23: Ten (or So) Myth-Busting Questions and Answers

Isn’t BIM Just Trendy CAD?

Is BIM Just for Big Companies, Skyscrapers, and Government Projects?

Is BIM a Fad and a Recent Technology Development?

Isn’t BIM Expensive?

Does BIM Adoption Affect Productivity?

How Detailed Does the Geometry Need to Be?

Do Clients Know What to Do with All the Data?

Do the Design and Construction Teams Only Benefit BIM?

Do You Need to Push the Detailed Design Forward in the Program?

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix B: Your Handy BIM Checklist

Appendix C: Examining BIM and Education

Getting Up to Speed with BIM

Understanding Collaboration

Teaching BIM

Highlighting Great BIM Teachers

About the Authors

Cheat Sheet

Advertisement Page

Connect with Dummies

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Introduction

Perhaps you keep hearing about Building Information Modeling (BIM) and want to work out what all the fuss is about. You may be a complete beginner in digital design and construction, looking for the basics. You may be a confident CAD user who wants to understand what BIM brings to the party. Or maybe you’re already very experienced in implementing BIM processes and you’re just interested in what we have to say in Building Information Modeling (BIM) For Dummies. We understand that you could be at various stages of knowledge and levels of experience. BIM is a process and it needs people like you to fuel it.

BIM isn’t just a buzzword. It’s actually been around for a long time, but the foundations to make it really work weren’t in place before now. We’ve seen BIM generate new efficiencies and new challenges too, and we’ve also seen how construction is hit hard by global economic recession. Our aim is to give you the push you need to start, accelerate, or maximize your use of BIM. It’s our great pleasure to guide you through your BIM implementation journey.

About This Book

More than likely, you’ve encountered a lot of conflicting, overly complicated, and unhelpful content about BIM online and in print. We intend to make Building Information Modeling (BIM) For Dummies different, cutting through all the noise and providing you with the clear advice and practical guidance that you need to make BIM a success in your job, whatever your level may be. Think of this book as a reference guide that addresses just what you need to know about BIM.

For the purposes of this book, we want to make it clear that we use the terms model and BIM to mean quite different things. Throughout the book we refer to BIM only as the concept of information modeling for buildings. We use terms like 3D CAD, 3D model, and geometric/geometry model interchangeably.

We structure this book to start with the basic concepts and ideas. We then gradually introduce more complicated, detailed, or supplementary content. Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If you’re reading this book in print and want to visit one of these sites, simply key in the web address exactly as it’s noted in the text, pretending that the line break doesn’t exist. If you’re reading it as an e-book, then you can just click the web address and the page will open in your default Internet browser.

One thing we should note is that we’re all based in the UK, and that’s where our expertise comes from, but we’ve tried wherever we can to balance this with a US perspective throughout and a global reference where relevant.

BIM is such a fast-moving target that during the writing process things shifted and new documents were released. We focus on pointing out the most current versions of guidelines and protocols that we reference at the time of writing.

Foolish Assumptions

Now, in order to write a practical guide to BIM and not just another boring textbook, we make some assumptions about you, our dear reader. Those assumptions are as follows:

You have some knowledge of the construction industry, probably in a professional capacity, in design, contracting, or surveying.

You’re a student, a client, or the owner of a building from a totally different industry, but you want to have a better grasp of a typical construction project, including the contractual relationships and expected information exchanges.

You work for a company that has an interest in incorporating BIM into your processes and workflows.

You don’t need to know how to use CAD software in order to gain insight from this book, because we think the software platforms are only one part of BIM and that model technicians are just one role in many BIM responsibilities.

You also don’t need to have any project management background. We explain the majority of management concepts throughout the book, but you may find understanding how to implement BIM processes easier if you’ve run jobs or managed a project team.

Icons Used in This Book

We include icons in the left-hand margins that highlight particular parts of the text you may want to remember or pay close attention to. Those icons include the following:

This icon is practical, giving you extra information about how to do something or how to save time in larger tasks.

Remember icons highlight snippets of the book that you should commit to memory. Think of them like those bright sticky notes you may have on your desk.

Try to always read text with a warning icon. With this icon, we point out some pitfalls so that you can avoid BIM disasters, and we also emphasize actions you should take to prevent running into problems.

We flag the more technical information with this icon so that you know which parts are extra to the core content. You don’t have to read these bits to put the rest of the book into practice, although you may find this information interesting.

This icon points out supplemental information online at www.dummies.com/extras/bim.

Beyond the Book

With your purchase of Building Information Modeling (BIM) For Dummies in print or e-book form, you have access to more exclusive information online. From great checklists on BIM processes to quick practical articles, you can find so many helpful pointers at www.dummies.com/extras/bim.

In addition, every For Dummies book includes a Cheat Sheet with handy information that you may want to consult on a regular basis. You can access the Cheat Sheet at www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/bim.

Where to Go from Here

Every For Dummies is modular, which means that you don’t have to read it in order from cover to cover. If you’re new to the world of BIM, we recommend that you start with Part I because it provides lots of the getting-started information that forms the foundations of BIM implementation. If you have a basic foundation of BIM, you can focus on Chapters 5, 6, or 7.

If you have the time, we suggest that you do read this book from cover to cover to get a complete overview of BIM and the reality of its implementation. You can see the overall picture when you’re able to finally step back and benefit from the wealth of specific knowledge in this book.

If you’re confident that you know all about the basics, you can jump into any part by going directly to it. For example, if your area of interest is the BIM mandates and protocols around the world, you can head straight over to Chapter 9. Alternatively, if you’re looking into the legal aspects of BIM, you can flip to Chapter 14. If you’re not sure where to start, consult the table of contents or index for a topic that interests you and then start reading.

Part I

Getting Started with Building Information Modeling

Go to www.dummies.com for bonus information about BIM and most any other topic that interests you.

In this part …

Find out how to explain what BIM is in a really simple way and understand what you really need for BIM implementation.

Appreciate that BIM isn’t just for buildings, but suitable for all kinds of infrastructure projects too, and look at examples of how more efficient processes are impacting the industry.

Make it easy to interrogate your project data by filling the model full of structured information, which other project team members can use for a variety of different uses and applications.

Use the right modeling tools to develop accurate 3D object information and see the benefits of detailed modeling.

Set up a common understanding of what BIM is for and agree on the fundamentals of BIM with your colleagues and project teams.

Chapter 1

Defining Building Information Modeling (BIM)

In This Chapter

Exploring what BIM actually is

Comprehending how BIM can help you

Explaining the BIM plans and strategies you need to be successful

Getting excited about BIM and encouraging others

The construction industry has been doing things the same way for thousands of years. Concrete is poured and set, bricks are stacked on top of bricks, and systems for heating and water are designed around corners and over multiple floors. For way too long, the construction industry has done a lot of these processes in isolation. At its worst, the construction industry brings some people involved in the construction of an asset like a building or a bridge onto the project just in time for their part, and the project team has to work around decisions or redo work, often on-site and under pressure of project deadlines.

Even in some of the most collaborative schemes, communication between different teams still has a long way to go, and the other users of building data and outputs, like clients and facility managers, are sometimes the last to know. The quality and quantity of data they receive on a project can vary wildly. What you need is a way to involve the entire project team earlier and coordinate all the project information in clear and accessible forms.

If only a combination of processes and technology existed that provided the framework to improve communication and data exchange across the construction industry, no matter how large or complicated projects may be. Well, interestingly enough, you’re in luck. This chapter serves as your jumping-off point to that very process: Building Information Modeling, commonly shortened to BIM.