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BIM: A game changing invention for AEC industry

It’s been centuries since construction work has begun commercially. Every passing decade added some innovation and left with a limitation to deal with. Of course it is undisputed that the industry was getting better and better yet the pace of this advancement wasn’t really remarkable. The issues like degradation in productivity, rising cost, delay in completion of the project were still to solve.

Well, these are the issues which have hindered the growth of the construction industry. Each stakeholder belonging to this field was seeking salvation, until Building Information Modeling was invented and reached out to the public. The age brought by high tech tools including BIM is defined in golden letters in the book of Architectural and Engineering industry.



Initially Architectural drawings used to be developed manually. Though, AutoCAD 2D architectural software was launched afterwards which has made this task a bit easier, but highly advanced and organized software was yet to launch.

Building Information Modeling is executed in Revit, which is software that launched in 1997 with feature of 3D modeling and converting 2D into 3D by applying required information. Eventually, Revit launched its individual versions for facilitating the requirements of each discipline such as Architecture, Structure and MEP. Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP brought a drastic improvement in the AEC industry.


 BIM added the vital celerity to the Architectural and Engineering design process. The process which used to consume many enormous time can now be completed within few hours with more efficiency. Earlier the rate of errors was so high that it used to cause a lot of rework. This limitation has eliminated by BIM which reinforced flawless construction.

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