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

1.5. Ten Steps for Successfully Implementing BIM

What does it take to implement BIM? When you start down this path, you have to ask some questions. What are you trying to achieve with BIM? What elements define this company? And what steps are necessary to begin implementing BIM software and processes?

To begin, develop a simple statement about how BIM aligns with the goals of the company, how it can be used in the future at the company, and how it might make your company more successful. This brief statement should define the organization's stance on new technology. This will become vital information later, in the implementation phase, when the pieces of software that have been identified by the organization to implement might go beyond BIM. ...