BIM-Based Construction Management

The fundamentals and practical use of information technology in the construction industry; the basic concepts of Building Information Modelling — a shared, data-rich, object-based model rather than a set of drawings; the difference between BIM and CAD; the Level of Development (LOD) of model elements; and why BIM is a process and a methodology, not merely a piece of software.

A review of the software and technology available for BIM — authoring, coordination and analysis tools, and the open interoperability standard IFC; the practical use of BIM in design; and the power of automated CLASH DETECTION — finding hard, soft and workflow clashes between disciplines in the model, before they are built.

The impact of BIM on construction management functions; construction scheduling and sequencing using BIM (4D) — linking the model to the programme and simulating the build; cost estimating using BIM (5D) — quantities and cost flowing from the model; and the wider BIM dimensions (3D to 7D).

Facility management with BIM — carrying the model and its data into operation as a digital twin for maintenance, assets and space; and the integrated approach that navigates BIM as a single multi-disciplinary platform across design, analysis, construction and facility management, over the building's whole life.

Bringing it together on a real project — creating a BIM model and using it for scheduling, sequencing, cost estimating, management and the simulation of a construction project; the workflow, the Common Data Environment and the BIM Execution Plan; and what BIM actually delivers when it works.