The construction industry is in the middle of a growing crisis worldwide. With 40% of the world’s raw materials being consumed by buildings, the industry is a key player in global economics and politics. And, since facilities consumed 40 % of the world’s energy and 65.2 % of total United States electrical consumption, the construction industry is a key player in energy conservation, too!
With facilities contributing 40% of the carbon emissions to the atmosphere and 20% of material waste to landfills, the industry is a key player in the environmental equation. Clearly, the construction industry has a responsibility to use the earth’s resources as efficiently as possible.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the act of creating an electronic model of a facility for the purpose of visualization, engineering analysis, conflict analysis, code criteria checking, cost engineering, as build-product and budgeting.
BIM is a critical element in reducing industry waste, adding value to industry products, decreasing environmental damage, and increasing the functional performance of occupants.
United States have published the “National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS).” It establishes standard definition for building information exchanges to support critical business contexts using standard semantics and ontologies.
BIM uses MasterFormat coding system for organizing the construction data.
In United States, over 50% of buildings are being constructed using BIM.
BIM is the future in building construction throughout the world.