Where BIM can reduce risks in construction industry?

The better the tools used to communicate during a project to all parties involved will have a lesser risk. In BIM the model-based approach provides for better understanding at every stage in the process. The owners can better understand what they are getting, estimators can have a much higher chance of estimating correctly, schedule planners can receive significantly more information to make a better schedule, contractors can better understand their assignments in the context of the overall project, and laborers on the site, who often cannot read drawings, can quickly understand the task at hand when it is described in a model. Now models are being brought to the construction site to ensure that the communication risk is dramatically reduced.

BIM Provides better oppurtinity to know what will be the final product available to him.This he can not acess by viewing the drawings.It also helps the Archictect  to communicate his requirment to contractor / builder.

This BIM technology is a big  boon for construction sector,  and is also very helpful for contractors, as the biggest bottleneck to contractors winning business is the estimating department. Estimating, the art and science of measuring drawings, calculating quantities and finally calculating cost and margin is having its own share of risks. There are never enough estimators that you can trust the really hard projects to and there is never enough time to perform estimates.

And many times it is not unusual to hear that all the windows on one side of a building were missed in the counting. With a model-based approach to estimating, contractors are finding that they can model and estimate in the same or even a shorter period of time, but with fewer mistakes.  And even if there are constant revision, the ability to update the estimate becomes dramatically easier.

Concept of BIM is excellent and is evolving.One thing is that is BIM redy for the challenges today construction Industry is facing. There are many grey areas in the concept itself before resolving them, going forward would be a complete mess. Many of the deelopers who have adopted this with extra finance are feeling after a certain stage that BIm is not able to produce 100%out put upto their expectations.

Industry is used to 2D drafting. Treaditional 2 D CAD related softwares have many flexibilities inthe means of output.

• This may be because of lack of standardised procedures that we have for 2D
• Processes are not being built up.. even though they are built they are open ended.
• Change management
• Time taken at initial stages till we have our base model is ready for documentation.
• Large, HUGE, file size which is very difficult to handle
• Interoperability
• Concept and Drawing exchange between consultants and other disciplines.

any change will difinitely looks gr8 at initial stage but upon usage it would show many loop holes, so Industry's out look and percievance towards development is one more key factor in adopting BIM

IT CAN REDUCE OUR EFFORT AND WORK LOAD I.E HEADACHE .100 PERCENT DEPENDENCE CAN INCREASE RISK IN LIEU OF REDUCTION SO, PLEASE UPDATE TECHNOLOGY BUT 2D AND 3D TILL WORKING AS SAME IMPORTANCE .