BIM is instrumental in effective construction management

Today Building Information Modeling has become an indispensable tool for monitoring entire construction process and the fact remains that it goes beyond construction and also monitors the maintenance activities for a building in question. Prior to BIM’s adoption in Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry, construction management never proved to be realistic to fit its definition. Well, this means prior to the implementation of BIM technology, construction management was a vague phenomena as general contractors never used to achieve any concrete results in terms of project productivity based on their planning and management skills.

On the other hand since the time Building Information Modeling technology have been in use construction management have become really easy for general contractors as they can access all the project information in advance. The advance availability of building information that is achieved in the form of BIM models help general contractors in consultation with other potential stakeholders to take effective decisions. As they have to bear the consequences of each and every problem that is confronted by design and construction professionals during the process, they firmly believe in advanced predictability of potential problems so that they can be sorted out much before their actual occurrence.

The most important thing that counts greatly in construction management is the precise design of different building disciplines. Generally rework is confronted due to design flaws and existence of clashes between different model elements of multidiscipline models. Reworks jolts the entire planning of construction project and affects it negatively by increasing project cost. For fixing design errors design development teams responsible for developing the design have to rework on the design and make some alterations in it to remove existing errors. Now they are definitely going to charge more for this which would increase the project cost.

To avoid all such complications from taking place general contractors believe in hiring effective Revit modeling services wherein they don’t have to think about doubting the design. For improving the design further they also hire clash detection services which are highly effective in eliminating all types of errors from the design.

Apart from this simulation videos, construction schedules and cost estimates are tremendously helpful for construction management as they provide accurate construction information which is used for effective decision making. Work-flow based clashes and problems occurring in material supply chain can be easily tackled by contractors with the assistance of construction schedules. Similarly information achieved through cost estimates help in optimizing the already maintained budget to achieve more productivity. Hence BIM services are tremendously helpful in construction management.