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BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors

BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team.

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Author: Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, Kathleen Liston
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 504

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Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a new approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built.

BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. The Handbook:

Introduces Building Information Modeling and the technologies that support it.
Reviews BIM and its related technologies, in particular parametric and object-oriented modeling, its potential benefits, its costs, and needed infrastructure.
Explains how designing, constructing, and operating buildings with BIM differs from pursuing the same activities in the traditional way using drawings, whether paper or electronic.
Discusses the present and future influences of BIM on regulatory agencies; legal practice associated with the building industry; and manufacturers of building products.
Presents a rich set of BIM case studies and describes various BIM tools and technologies.
Shows how specific disciplines - owners, designers, contractors, and fabricators - can adopt and implement BIM in their companies.
Explores BIM's current and future impact on industry and society.

Painting a colorful and thorough picture of the state of the art in Building Information Modeling, the BIM Handbook guides readers to successful implementations, helping them to avoid needless frustration and costs and take full advantage of this paradigm-shifting approach to build better buildings, that consume fewer materials, and require less time, labor, and capital resources.

Excerpt from the Preface
This book is about a new approach to design, construction, and facility management called building information modeling (BIM). It provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound impacts that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. The book explains how designing, constructing, and operating buildings with BIM differs from pursuing the same activities in the traditional way using drawings, whether paper or electronic.

BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are built. Throughout the book, we have intentionally and consistently used the term "BIM" to describe an activity (meaning building information modeling), rather than an object (building information model). This reflects our belief that BIM is not a thing or a type of software but a human activity that ultimately involves broad process changes in construction.

Why a BIM Handbook?
Our motivation in writing this book was to provide a thorough and consolidated reference to help students and practitioners in the building industry learn about this exciting new approach, in a format independent of the commercial interests that guide vendors' literature on the subject. There are many truths and myths in the generally accepted perceptions of the state of the art of BIM. We hope that the BIM Handbook will help reinforce the truths, dispel the myths, and guide our readers to successful implementations. Many well-meaning decision-makers and practitioners in the building industry at large have had disappointing experiences after attempting to adopt BIM, because their efforts and expectations were based on misconceptions and inadequate planning. If this book can help readers avoid these frustrations and costs, we will have succeeded.

Collectively, the authors have a wealth of experience with BIM. We believe that BIM represents a paradigm change that will have far-reaching benefits, not only for those in the building industry but for society at large, as better buildings are built that consume less energy and require less labor and capital resources. We make no claim that the book is objective in terms of our judgment of the necessity for BIM. At the same time, of course, we have made every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the facts and figures presented.

Who is the BIM Handbook for, and what is in it?
The BIM Handbook is addressed to building developers, owners, managers, and inspectors; to architects, engineers of all disciplines, construction contractors, and fabricators; and to students of architecture, civil engineering, and building construction. It reviews Building Information Modeling and its related technologies, its potential benefits, its costs and needed infrastructure. It also discusses the present and future influences of BIM on regulatory agencies; legal practice associated with the building industry; and manufacturers of building products - it is directed at readers in these areas. A rich set of BIM case studies are presented and various BIM tools and technologies are described. Industry and societal impacts are also explored.

The book has four sections:
I. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 provide an introduction to BIM and the technologies that support it. These chapters describe the current state of the building industry, the potential benefits of BIM, parametric modeling of buildings, and interoperability issues.

II. Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7 provide discipline-specific perspectives of BIM. They are aimed at owners (Chapter 4), designers of all kinds (Chapter 5), general contractors (Chapter 6), and subcontractors and fabricators (Chapter 7).

III. Chapter 8 discusses potential impacts and future trends associated with the advent of BIM-enabled design, construction, and operation of buildings. Current trends are described and extrapolated through the year 2012 as are forecasts of potential long-term developments and the research needed to support them through 2020.

IV. Chapter 9 provides ten detailed cases studies of BIM in the construction industry that demonstrate its use for feasibility studies, conceptual design, estimating, detailing, coordination, construction planning, logistics, operations and many other common construction activities. The case studies include buildings with signature architectural and structural designs (such as the Beijing National Aquatics Center, the 100 11th Avenue apartment building facade in New York City, and the environmentally friendly Federal Building in San Francisco) as well as a wide range of fairly common buildings (a GM production plant, a federal courthouse, a medical office building, a parking structure, a high-rise office building, a mixed commercial and retail development, and a coast-guard training facility).

About the Authors
Chuck Eastman is a Professor in the Colleges of Architecture and Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and Director of the College of Architecture PhD Program, where he leads research in IT in building design and construction. He has been active in building modeling research since the 1970s and has worked with a variety of industry groups developing BIM technology.
Paul Teicholz, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, founded the Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) at Stanford University in 1988 and directed that program for 10 years. He was named the Construction Management "Man of the Year" by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1985 and awarded the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology by the National Building Museum in 2006.
Rafael Sacks, an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering and Construction Management at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, founded and leads the BIM Laboratory at the Israel National Building Research Institute. He has conducted primary and applied BIM research for industry, government, and public organizations in North America, Europe, and Israel.
Kathleen Liston, a technology consultant and PhD candidate at Stanford University, co-founded Common Point technologies, a construction simulation software company. She has held positions at Autodesk, and worked on projects developing technologies and processes to implement 3D/4D/BIM with a variety of organizations including Walt Disney, Mortenson, URS, and Parsons-Brinckerhoff.

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