Sagar - An Overview for Beginners

Building Information Modelling (BIM), Iheard this term two years back in one of my firms seminars. The man presentingin his late 60s, white beard, blue eyes like most of British man of his age andof course thick British accent which I adore. It was very basic introductorypresentation on Building Information Modelling and how its going to transformAEC (Architecture, Engineering and construction) industry. The conceptfascinated me; it is felt like AEC industry finally found the solution to allits problems. No more heated coordination meeting, no more design changes atthe last moment, no more discovery of clashes after construction started and nomore interdisciplinary coordination headache. But at the same time its allsound too good to be true or become reality. After the presentation I talkedwith the Presenter about my doubt that its just felt like heaven, too perfectand so not really real. He said me nodded in agreement and said its up to usnow to make heaven real.

After that day, life moves as usualProject Deliveries, Coordination meetings, Client Meeting, last minute designchanges and so on, all very real, certainly not heaven. But this BIM refuse toescape my mind, even in day today working I am thinking OK, we can do likethat in BIM environment and it will make our life less miserable. Days goes byand my BIM fever also going up. I started asking question to my Colleagues, myimmediate supervisor, my Project manager, but everybody has different answer,which making me more and more curious.

I was perusing my graduation and time tosubmit my project and for that I have choose a topic and top of my mind was BIM(Building Information Modelling). During research of my Project I realize thatthere are so many literature online and offline about BIM and that also made merealize, how vast the subject itself. But there was one major problem, all thatmaterial is scattered and everyone talking about only one or two aspects ofBIM. There are books from various publications, lots of blogs, market reportsand what not. But for beginner like me, I am looking for a complete and conciseoverview of BIM. Not many details but as single book covering all essentialaspects of BIM, which will help to set my direction and give me sense offulfilment knowledge about the subject. But I could not found it.

Meanwhile I submitted my Graduationproject on BIM Implementations Framework and Hurdles; its got approved andappreciated. After that it made me think that there are so many beginners likeme, who are going to face the problems like me and might, lost their interestin subject. So here I am writing this book for all those beginners, who hasheard of BIM in some way or other but dont know where to start.

This book is for all BIM enthusiast, Engineers,Contractors, Consultants, Designers, Owners and all those are even remotelyconnected to AEC industry. I am not BIM expert or dont have many yearsexperience in the BIM area, but I am BIM enthusiast who is Woking in AECindustry form last seven years and realise what correct implementation of BIMcan do wonders.

In this book I have tried to cover mostof the topic related to BIM in concise manner. As the subject itself is vastmultidisciplinary in nature, this book will act has path finder and help youhave complete glance over a subject in one sitting. This book is for all thosebeginners who share passion for the subjects, but get blown away by vast andscattered information. I hope this book will help to spark an interest insubject and will contribute to make BIM heaven a reality.

This is my first book and I will really appreciateyour feedback and views to make this book better. You write me on Sagar_UB09@yahoo.in

Best of Luck!

Sagar Ub October 2014