Impact of BIM in Construction Industry
What is BIM? BIM is an acronym for Building Information Modeling. There is a lot of talk lately about BIM in the construction industry, both locally and internationally. BIM is not something that has appeared recently. The birth of the BIM concept is several decades old, but in order to implement it in practice, an evolution of IT tools and connectivity systems was needed. For some years, this evolution has taken place. That is why BIM was born a long time ago, but it is growing now. Often times, BIM is considered simply a software, or just a digital 3D model of the building, or just a tool that allows us to manage the building as a database. BIM is usually labeled as a new computing tool, which comes to replace the old one. That is why it is important to try to define a more global panorama, to get out of partial vision to avoid that the tree prevents us from seeing the forest. BIM is a work methodology that allows all the actors involved in the process of ideation, project,...