Building Information Model Research Paper

B.UILDING I.NFORMATION M.ODELLING INTRODUCTION: The construction industry in the 21st century is facing a huge challenge. Building Information Modeling(BIM) is emerging as a technological, procedural and strategic new approach to the fields of Architecture, Engineering and Construction providing a way for iterating, documenting and managing a design through most of its life-cycle from conceptual design, design development to construction through operations and management. The bulk of the time spent on a design project is in the detailed design and construction document phases of a project, while the building's general appearance, performance and cost are largely decided during conceptual design. Since CAD easily helps visualize the design concept, where the conceptual design phase is mainly the responsibility of the architect, most curricula in architectural education are currently designed with more focus on CAD and less or no focus on BIM. As a result, most architecture graduates do not posses enough BIM knowledge or skill that is urgently needed by employers. This creates a growing gap between academia and the design and construction industry that needs to be addressed. What is BIM?

Origins

The concept of BIM has existed since the 1970s. The term Building Information Model first appeared in a paper by van Nederveen et al. However, the terms Building Information Model and Building Information Modeling (including the acronym "BIM") had not been popularly used until Autodesk released the white paper entitled "Building Information Modeling".Jerry Laiserin helped popularize and standardize the termas a common name for the digital representation of the building process as then offered under differing terminology by Graphisoft as "Virtual Building", Bentley Systems as "Integrated Project Models", and by Autodesk or Vectorworks as "Building Information Modeling" to facilitate exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. According to