Project Delivery With Building Information Modeling (BIM): Challenges And Risk Mitigation - Part I

Whether you are an owner, design professional, design consultant, construction manager, general contractor (GC), or subcontractor it is almost inevitable that you will encounter the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), to one degree or another, in perhaps every design and construction project you are involved in. Many owners today require that all of their projects, regardless of scale or complexity, be designed in BIM. Typically, this decision is based on an assumption that using BIM will:

• Deliver a more complete design;
• Provide a better-coordinated design that is less prone to design errors or omissions;
• Facilitate efficient design variations and changes;
• Clearly communicate design concepts to the contractor;