Bim-way Forward In Construction Industry

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent model-based process that provides insight to help you plan, design, construct and manage buildings and infrastructure.
BIM brings together information about every component of a building in one place. It allows all the stakeholders in the construction project (including Architects, Design Engineers, Contractor and Project Owners) to communicate & work together. In this way, the risk of mistakes or discrepancies are reduced and abortive costs minimized.
BIM data can be used to illustrate the entire building life-cycle, from inception and design to demolition and materials reuse. Spaces, systems, products and sequences can be shown in relative scale to each other and in turn, relative to the entire project. By signaling conflict detection, BIM prevents errors creeping in at the various stages of development/construction.
The main difference between BIM and Computer Aided Design (CAD) is that CAD system is usually represented as 2D documents, which are created separately and have no intelligent / real time connection between separately created documents. In CAD, two lines represent a wall. In BIM, wall is an intelligent object, which has its own properties like width, height, bearing or non-load bearing virtue, interior or exterior, fire rating and materials (such as boards or brick). The BIM platform assembles all information into one location and cross-links that data among associated objects. There is no linkage between the data created by CAD.
Potential Benefits of using BIM
BIM is the most advanced and challenging technological progress for the architecture, engineering, construction and facility management industry. The key benefit of BIM is its accurate geometrical representation of the parts of a building in an integrated data environment.
BIM being the advanced technology it is, allows testing on models and quickly generates options for better decision making in respect of time, cost, process and risk. BIM