What are the benefits of using BIM for businesses? What about the designers? How does BIM make design smoother? How does BIM facilitate the interaction between designer and company?
Benefits of BIM modelling for businesses
Making BIM objects from corporate products is a new business opportunity.
As we will discuss in depth below, BIM (Building Information Modelling) is progressively becoming the new standard for design and construction in Italy and around the world. What now (2020) is an opportunity for the Italian market will soon become a necessity, as has already happened in all the more developed markets (first of all North America).
For a company, making BIM objects and libraries available for their products means entering into the projects and an automatic prescription of their products.
Why can companies producing materials for Architecture and construction find in BIM new and different opportunities to develop their business?
- Because BIM objects contain all the technical information useful to the prescription of their products; they represent not only a “drawing”, but a real data sheet that becomes part of a project.
- Because through a correct configuration of its BIM objects it is often possible to provide the designer with a guide in using and customising the company's products.
- Because in BIM objects it is possible to enter the commercial information useful to create a bridge between the designer and the company. For example, the company's website, the email references of those who can provide technical support to the use of a product, the telephone number of the foreign office, etc.
The production of BIM objects of Architecture and Interior Design materials is a great business opportunity for companies who first know how to anticipate the market and then sooner or later becomes an essential necessity for all others. Of course, the "sense of urgency" of creating BIM libraries varies depending on the sector. This sense will be greater for companies that produce materials for construction or that export a lot, while it will be less for furniture manufacturers that mainly target the Italian market.
Advantages of BIM design for designers
The advantages of BIM design for designers are manifold: BIM proves to be a winning methodology both for individual work and for connecting the different interlocutors operating within the same project.
Surely the biggest advantage of BIM design lies in the fact that the models allow a good degree of flexibility: unlike CAD, in fact, BIM models are adjustable and changeable within the established parameters. Thanks to the parameters in the families in Revit models BIM facilitate the designers in the use of the products of the companies and constitute a sort of guide to the proper use and the correct configuration and customization of the product, where possible.
BIM models can also contain commercial information and, through this, BIM also has the advantage of facilitating the architect, designer, engineer or surveyor in contacting the people of the reference company for a given product.
Finally, an additional advantage of BIM is given by the fact that in Revit you can set various levels of detail in the display of an object within an architectural project, depending on your need. As an example to describe this concept, the image below shows the BIM model of a door represented with two different degrees of detail. The image is of the same door, the same model accompanied by the same information, which on the left is displayed as simple size while on the right it appears with a higher degree of detail.
Example: BIM model of a door displayed in two different degrees of detail
