BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows

4.1. Overview of BIM and Updates

In this book, you've seen how BIM can be a useful tool in the preconstruction and early construction phases. But how does it stay a valuable tool throughout a project? One of the answers to this question is through updating. Toward the end of preconstruction and at the beginning of the construction phase of a project, the flow of information in a project increases. Specifically, addenda, supplemental drawing information, and submittals, to name a few types of information, start becoming available more rapidly than before. The success of the project starting correctly is usually a direct result of how well this rapid influx of information is managed, tracked, and distributed. Many times this involves the use of ...