TABLE OF CONTENTS This book was created for those who are involved in the building information modeling (BIM) community or who want to learn more about BIM and what it means for construction management professionals. This book introduces what BIM is conceptually and shows the real-world ways BIM technologies can be put to use. BIM represents a fundamental change in the way design and construction professionals work, and the BIM opportunities that are currently being leveraged and explored by construction companies around the globe are staggering. This book represents years of study, practice, and discussion of BIM, how it functions in current methods, and what is being changed to better enable this technology in the design and construction industries. I hope this book will be one of the building blocks, along with others' experience, that can turn BIM into a more refined and developed process.
As you will hear multiple times throughout these pages, this book is for those who want to define a process using BIM. The chapters show at what points in a design and construction process certain tasks need to be accomplished to achieve a certain result, and the chapters often include tutorials showing how to accomplish that task using specific software. By completing the step-by-step tutorials in this book, you'll gain a perspective of the time and effort it takes to achieve the desired product. In addition, you'll increase your working knowledge of the systems involved. This book also will outline how and to...
