A NEW DAY A NEW DAY - Toronto Construction Association
A NEW DAY A NEW DAY - Toronto Construction Association
A NEW DAY A NEW DAY - Toronto Construction Association
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BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING<br />
A New Kind<br />
of Model<br />
BIM fosters teamwork, nips<br />
project problems in the bud,<br />
supports LEED design – and is<br />
even changing construction’s<br />
legal landscape<br />
By Kelly Parker<br />
All images courtesy of Autodesk<br />
THE NEXT WAVE IS HERE.<br />
Maybe the term “tide” is more appropriate, as the use of Building Information Modelling<br />
— a term coined by design software vendor Autodesk, but which has since become<br />
a generic term for the process known as BIM — relentlessly advances as arguably the<br />
most significant evolution ever in construction technology.<br />
Properly defined, BIM is a process that delivers construction projects using parametric<br />
modelling of the building in virtual space, prior to construction. The model<br />
is then shared between and passed from discipline to discipline along the project<br />
delivery chain, with content being added and extracted as needed by the consulting<br />
and construction teams.<br />
Builders' Digest Quarter 3 2010 | 29
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