Top ten reasons to use 5D BIM.
Number Ten: Competitors already use it.(Page 33 of McGraw-Hill’s BIM SmartMarket Report cites that the most important benefit for Contractors is to market BIM capabilities to win new clients.
Number Nine: Owners are asking for BIM. (Page 34 of the same report states that “Owners who use BIM see a very high rate of ROI.”
Number Eight: The new genreation of engieers who will run your projects want to use it
Number Seven: Research shows that optimizing your schedule with Vico Control decreases schedule duration by 10% without exposing the project to any additional risk.
Number Six: Your CEO wants to win more business. With most GCs putting together a model for the bid, your firm can stand out from the pack when you explain to the owner that your model is not just for marketing – it will also drive the schedule and keep the project on budget.
Number Five: When a sub-contractor submits a bid, you can check their quantities against yours to ensure the labor assumptions and productivity rates are correct.
Number Four: Use unit prices from your subs that are loaded to the model and fill in the quantities and if you had a great and very exact model do quantity takeoff from it.
Number Three: Layout your MEP, as well as your concrete, formwork, and anything else using the robotic Total Station and LM80. Seismic bracings and hanger placement can be modeled, transfered to the LM80, and shot on-site with the Trimble Total Station.
Number Two: A flowline schedule to help you finish early. We’ve been talking this week in Helsinki to very large companies like NCC, Skanska, and Hartela. These are all very large construction firms that are all completely standardized on Vico Control. Flowline schedules really do run the projects there where scheduling is so important because of the long and deeply cold winter.
And Number One: The number one reason to really understand this stuff is you’ve got to win the project. There are many companies bidding for every single project and it’s very clear that companies that deeply understand BIM and can explain to the owner how they can remove risk from the project, how they will better manage the project, will win.
The proven difference between the winner and the loser is increasingly their ability to use and to bring to bear this 5D methodology to de-risk a project.
What is your reason for using BIM? Or why wouldn’t you use BIM?
