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Migrating to Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling Solution
Challenges for You, a Regular Day for BluEntCAD

"Of every construction project in the world, the owner spends 5% on design and 95% on construction. Surprised to the fact the success of the later depends on the former. BIM can identify the potential spatial conflicts and forecast the building performance at the early stages of design more efficiently than AutoCAD.”

Read more on the benefits of BIM Environment
  • It takes most companies longer to draft in BIM software (such as Revit) and months down the line they fail to realize the advantages and return. They wonder if their regular CAD software was a better bet!
  • Really don’t know what to focus on. Getting the drawings out on time or transitioning to BIM?
  • How will we get to see all the beautiful features of BIM and quantity calculation? And when? It’s been 6 months? It was supposed to save us time and money and enhance quality and accuracy?
  • You sent your team members for a 3 day BIM course? We have been able to provide the best suggestions to reduce transition time and productivity loss.

CREATE the BIM Environment!!

BluEntCAD Approach:

Review the Current Standard and Process:
Appoint a BIM consultant to review your current documentation standards and process.

Scope and Plan the BIM Environment:
The BluEnt BIM consultant, the client and the BluEnt Project team studies the results of the current documenting and drafting process. The process is broken up into modules. Few examples of things to consider while breaking it up into modules is:

  • The BIM Environment: What component of the documentation is repetitive and will be needed to be converted into families, libraries, parametric models etc. to save time and increase accuracy.
  • What parts of the documentation, can be handled by the BluEnt team and what by the client’s in-house team. And what kind of collaboration model between the two teams is needed to be able to transition most cost effectively.
Setup Roles and Responsibilities:
Indentify the team members on the client and BluEnt side with their roles and training needs. Setup a process chart with roles, responsibilities, project schedule, training needs, handover, handshake time and resourcing.

Trial and Tested Method:
Run a few non priority projects from low to medium complexity.

Revisit:
Revisit the plan and make changes after the trial if needed.

Execute Live:
Go live with real time project in BIM. Start with low and continuously monitor efficiency using BluEnt efficiency monitoring tools. Increase the complexity as the efficiency benchmarks are met at each level.