Seamless BIM Integration Improves Productivity and Collaboration

Digital technology is transforming the construction business. New tools enable structural engineers to streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and boost productivity.

Engineering firms are embracing technology-based solutions to keep pace with their industry’s rapid evolution. At the heart of this digital engineering transformation is the 3D building information model (BIM).

Today’s sophisticated BIM applications deliver fully constructible 3D digital models. Until recently, sharing data between analysis, design, and BIM applications has created roadblocks for firms striving to re-engineer building project workflows.

For example, when structural engineers find themselves having to recreate models to use within their BIM applications, that process actually adds tasks to their workloads. So, progressive engineering firms are now embracing analysis and design software that can deliver seamless BIM integration.

When your engineering team works with an integrated 3D BIM model from day one, they can spot costly errors and prevent confusion and delay in later phases. They can also test various design options with other stakeholders, which helps all project team members work smarter.

Boost Productivity

When structural engineers follow an integrated 3D model philosophy, they reduce duplication of effort. Acting as a single source of truth, the BIM automatically updates data in a single, shared 3D model, and teams don’t need to communicate changes manually.

Seamless BIM integration not only boosts speed and accuracy, it also builds teamwork. Stakeholders can be confident that the shared model encompasses all design changes with minimal clashes or discrepancies.

Working with a single, integrated 3D BIM, structural engineers can move beyond copying members sizes between software applications and start incorporating vital member analysis and design data. This enables your teams to automate such tasks as concrete rebar scheduling and end-force reaction drawings.

Eliminate Errors, Omissions, and Clashes

By integrating your 3D BIM and analytical applications, your team can identify and solve clashes between structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) systems more easily and in less time. By following a more proactive design process, teams can reduce time-consuming change orders and requests for information (RFIs) during the onsite construction phases of their projects.

Facilitate Team Collaboration

As structures become more complex, stakeholder collaboration between engineers, architects, MEP designers, and contractors is even more crucial than ever before. Seamless BIM integration facilitates more effective team collaboration.

When a shared 3D BIM model includes construction data at a more advanced level of detail (LOD), all stakeholders can refer to and update the model throughout all design, build, and operate construction project tasks.

When structural designers use a 3D BIM to unify analysis and design applications, they facilitate real-time communication and online information sharing. This encourages greater synergy throughout the entire project team.

Using today’s seamless BIM integration, your team can combine 3D modeling and analytical applications throughout all structural engineering project phases. There’s no need for your teams to copy information between several isolated models and software tools. That saves your business time and money, while eliminating the headaches caused by errors, omissions, and clashes.

BuildingPoint Can Help

BuildingPoint is committed to a seamlessly integrated building information modeling process that all stakeholders can apply throughout the design, build, and operate lifecycle of any structural engineering project.

Why not contact BuildingPoint today to discuss how our constructible process tools can help your firm deliver sharable building designs more accurately, efficiently, and profitably?