Construction is a fragmented process involving many players with different views and requirements. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is essential in bringing everyone together. Originally published on Tekla.com.
Each construction company and supplier has a specific task in a project, and some play a more significant role than others. There’s also a lot of variety in ways of working, with some people spending their days in an office, while others are always onsite.
No doubt, working with many team members and subcontractors may be a challenge. And without a reliable source of truth, it’s easy for misunderstandings to arise between parties. This creates tension and ultimately impacts performance.
Most construction companies want to find ways to overcome these challenges in the interests of delivering their projects on time and on budget, wasting less material, using their personnel’s time smartly, and generating more profits. When working together on a construction project, the different parties involved need to join forces towards a single common goal. For this, communication and collaboration are essential.
BIM: boosting collaboration in your concrete construction project
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an efficient way to start collaboration. By creating a detailed and collaborative 3D model, you can break out of siloed activities and work together towards a common goal. With BIM, it’s simply easier to provide people with the information they need in order to do their jobs properly.
Better communication between the field and the office
Constructible 3D models are more than visualization tools. One of the most powerful things about a 3D model is the amount of information it can contain. 3D models provide you with all the relevant and on-time information you need, helping you to create a shared understanding among the different people involved in the project.
Increasing the use of a 3D model as a unique source of truth can dramatically improve coordination among teams. A 3D model also allows more than one set of eyes to check if there are any discrepancies or mistakes in the construction plan before it is executed. By finding these errors early on, your company can save a lot of time and money.
As there are many tools and ways of doing construction, software that gives you the flexibility to understand and unify the work that others are doing is a great asset. If you want to make the most of team collaboration and information sharing, you need a tool that enables the sharing of data among multiple stakeholders. This allows the entire project team to collaborate, review, and make changes to a model together.
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