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Transforming The Project Delivery Process Using Building Information Modeling (BIM)

The complexity and rapid paced development of today's projects are challenging the industry to find new, innovative approaches to project delivery. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is emerging as high-tech, process transformational method to address some of these challenges. The BIM methodology enables owners, consultants, and other stake holders to visualize and understand evolving designs and collaboration issues as never before. The information packed digital assets produced during a BIM based project have the potential to transform the way supply chain partners work together to improve the design and construction process by enabling early identification and removal of problems. This is resulting in cost and schedule benefits and assisting projects to avoid costly delays. In addition to the benefits to design and construction, the digital assets associated with the BIM offer potential to improve the facility management and operations process long after occupancy begins.

When compared to the traditional approach for designing and building projects, BIM offers many advantages in the areas of multi discipline collaboration, cost and schedule reduction, improved understanding of the project and improved constructability of the design. Unlike the drawing-centric approach used by the traditional delivery process, BIM project participants are able to access the various digital models throughout the design process without having to wait until paper drawings are produced and delivered. This provides a multi-discipline view of the project can be shared with all participants early in the process and continuously throughout design and construction. Experience shows that collaborating in this fashion produces break through results that are not possible by using drawings alone. Higher-order collaboration among project participants, and better understanding of the design through visualization, are just two of the immediate and impressive benefits the BIM approach will bring. These two factors alone will result in a substantial reduction in RFIs and field rework which will, in turn, lead to improvements in project schedule and cost reliability. This session will provide an overview of the BIM delivery process from the perspective of the Structural Engineer, describe today’s practical realities of BIM design as well as explore the multi discipline collaboration processes and opportunities available on BIM based projects.

Registration forms and additional information on upcoming seminars are available on the ASCE New Orleans Branch SEI website.  Please assist us in registration efforts by complying with the cutoff dates.

For more information regarding the Structural Engineering Institute New Orleans Chapter, including upcoming seminars, please visit the SEI webpage located on the ASCE New Orleans Branch website or contact Om P. Dixit, P.E.