BIM (Building Information Modeling)
"Building information modelling (BIM) integrates all of the geometric model information, the functional requirements and capabilities,
and piece behaviour information into a single interrelated description of a building project over its life cycle. It also includes process information dealing with construction schedules and fabrication processes"
Chuck Eastman, Ph.D, Georgia Tech College, Architecture and Computing
The key to industrializing the building process:
Manage and share, on-line, a single BIM model between all project participants, architects, engineers, contractors, suppliers and tenants, throughout the entire building project.
Why is a Model Server so important?
- Because without the ability to share/multi-use the BIM-model in real-time all the main potential benefits remain only the potential. Without a model server the parties need to send/receive the versions of the model to/from each other.
Why has Modelling technology not made a breakthrough earlier?
- The lack of a functioning model server has been for years the main obstacle to modelling technology, "the paradigm shift", to make a breakthrough.
What makes the paradigm shift happen?
- Realizing and experiencing, in real projects, the huge benefit of sharing the critical building information will inevitably make the paradigm shift happen. So far, the modelling technology has been efficiently used only for vertical, discipline oriented systems. A web based BIM-model server enables fluent project collaboration and finally makes it possible for this new paradigm to blossom out.
