Today's entry reports on the coming of Building Information
Modelling.
Building Information Modelling, or BIM, is something that you
may be familiar with already or it may just be on the edge of your
consciousness but you will have to get used to it, as the
government is planning to make it mandatory for publicly-funded
projects by 2016.
What is it?
I'm only getting to grips with it myself, and there is a lot
of mumbo jumbo talked about it - it is this decade's
'sustainable development'. What I have ascertained is
that BIM is essentially a single shared software model for building
projects that lasts for the lifetime of the project, getting passed
along project disciplines from master planning to facilities
management - even demolition.
