Chapter 8Intoducing BIM

by Richard Saxon CBE

Introduction

Perhaps the biggest recent change for clients in working with the construction industry is the arrival of Building Information Modelling (BIM). BIM has been around by that name since 2003 and the government decided in 2011 that all its work – 20% of the total – will use so-called ‘Level 2 BIM’ by 2016. That is, pulling the whole industry to adopt the digital work method.

This chapter assumes that the reader is unfamiliar with BIM and answers the nine frequently ...

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