About the Book
The optimal approach to design, build, operate, and maintain buildings With this strategic guide to building information modeling (BIM), you’ll learn how to implement this new technology as part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design, construction, management, operation, maintenance, and use of buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports more streamlined, integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life cycle of buildings, from their initial conception through their eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality buildings, lower construction and operating costs, shorter project turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information to support better business decisions. Moreover, they set forth a plan for incorporating BIM into every organization’s existing workflows, enabling you to take full advantage of all the benefits that BIM offers.
Everything you need to implement a BIM approach is set forth in detail, including:
The business case for BIM, demonstrating how it can improve collaboration, facilitate better design and construction, optimize workflow, and help reduce risk
Guidance for meeting the challenges of BIM such as an entrenched business culture, the proliferation of BIM tools, and the uneven rates of BIM adoption
The “big picture” view showing how your organization can work with business partners and fit into the building life cycle in a BIM-enabled industry
Throughout the book, sample documents and figures help you better understand the principles of BIM and how it works in practice. In addition, first-hand accounts show you exactly how adopters of BIM have gained a competitive edge.
Architects, engineers, constructors, building owners, and facility managers can turn to this book to realize the full potential of BIM and radically improve the way buildings are designed, built, operated, and maintained.
Table of Contents:
Foreword xi
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Building Industry Challenges and Opportunities 1
Global Trends in Supply and Demand 2
Benchmarking Construction Productivity 3
Construction Productivity Metrics 6
Benchmarking Building Performance 8
Converting Inefficiency and Waste into Profit 10
Benchmarking Waste 11
Identifying Business Opportunities 12
Emerging Business Strategies 15
Choosing the Right Tools, Deploying the Right Tool Suites 16
The BIM Value Proposition 19
Process Engineering 20
Thinking Like an Owner 22
Building Performance Metrics 23
New Metrics for Real Property Valuation 23
Chapter 2 BIM Implementation Strategies 27
Leaving the CAD Era Behind 28
A Systems Approach to BIM Implementation 29
Avoiding Ideological Pitfalls 30
Aligning a BIM Implementation Strategy with Technology Trends 32
Assessing Fundamental Risks 33
Fostering a Culture of Information Stewardship 33
Managing Culture Change 35
Using Technology to Build Trust and Mitigate Risk 36
Maintaining Data Exchange Capabilities 37
Assessing Team Capabilities 41
Managing Expectations 42
Measuring Progress toward Strategic Goals 44
Toward a New Business Paradigm 54
Chapter 3 Business Process Reform 57
Managing Innovation Risk 58
The Imperative of Change 59
Innovation Management Strategies 60
The “I” in BIM 62
Business Reform Strategies 63
Industry-wide Reform Efforts 64
Industry Standards and Innovation 66
The Industry Standards Landscape 68
Aligning Business Strategies with Industry Standards 70
Integrating Information Gathering into the Business Process 72
Leadership and Vision 75
Engaging Business Partners 77
Business Process Modeling 78
Business Process Modeling Case Study 82
Managing Change 83
Populating the Building Information Model 87
Chapter 4 BIM-Based Enterprise Workflow 89
BIM Implementation Fundamentals 90
Sidebar: Integrating Data Collection with Business Processes 94
Business Operations and BIM 98
Marketing/Business Development 99
Human Resources 101
Finance 102
Information Technology 104
Operations 105
Workflow Visualization 108
Chapter 5 The Building Life Cycle 111
Life Cycle Views of Building Information 111
The Feasibility, Planning, and Development View 115
The Design and Construction View 116
The Operations and Maintenance View 118
The Ownership and Asset Management View 123
Chapter 6 Building Information Exchange Challenges 129
Sidebar: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom 130
Information Management 131
Sidebar: Case Study: Information Management 134
Information Provenance 135
Information Maturity 137
Sidebar: The Wayback Machine: Archiving the Web 138
Information Content Decay 140
Information Electronic Degradation 140
Information Integrity and Continuity 141
Information Transparency, Accessibility, and Security 143
Information Flow 144
The Life Cycle of Information 146
Stakeholder Views 146
Interoperability 146
Chapter 7 Building Information Exchange Requirements 153
The Big Picture 154
Information Delivery Manuals 154
Defining “Best Case” Business Processes 159
agcXML: Organizing Transactional Information 161
SMARTcodes: Automating the Regulatory Process 162
The Construction Operations Building Information Exchange 163
Specifiers Property Information Exchange (SPIE) 166
Coordination View Information Exchange (CVIE) 168
Chapter 8 The Way Forward 171
Workflow: From Sequential to Parallel Processing 173
Business and Contractual Relationships 176
Evolving Roles and Responsibilities 177
Bibliography 179
Index 183
About the Author :
Dana K. Smith, FAIA, is Executive Director of the buildingSMART alliance, a program of the National Institute of Build-ing Sciences (NIBS), and a Senior Analyst with Cyon Research. He is the founder and former chair of the NIBS Facility Information Council, developer of the U.S. National Computer Aided Design (CAD) Standard and the National Building Information Modeling (BIM) Standard. His efforts to advance the art and science of building have been recognized by numerous honors and accolades, including the 1996 Federal 100 Award, the 1997 NIBS Member Award, and the 2006 CAD Society Leadership Award.
MICHAEL TARDIF, Assoc. AIA, CSI, Hon. SDA, is Director of Integrated Project Delivery Systems for Grunley Construction Company in Rockville, Maryland, and a contributing editor to AIArchitect and Construction Project Controls and BIM Report. He is the former director of the Center for Technology and Practice Management of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the former project manager of the agcXML Project, an initiative funded and executed by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) under the auspices of the buildingSMART alliance, one of the first standards-development efforts to support genuine e-commerce in the building industry.
