A shift in the industry

Watching the clock

“There is an important degree of efficiency that can be gained by implementing BIM,” says Jonkman. Time savings come, according to Ajami, from addressing changes more rapidly than ever. “If you have a mistake, this mistake is consistent throughout the model and will show up everywhere. If you’re able to go and measure something in the model and it’s right, you know it’s right everywhere because everything is linked to one centralized set of data,” he says. “Before this software, if you made a change somewhere in the set of independent drawings associated with a project, you would have to go and change each drawing separately,” explains Wil Dancey, Managing Director of Dietrich’s North America, a 3D CAD/CAM software solution for wood building. McGraw-Hill’s Interoperability in the Construction Industry SmartMarket Report identifies time spent on manually reentering data from application to application as the most significant form of time-waste, accounting for 69 per cent of wasted time. Now, each drawing is connected, and time no longer needs to be spent comparing, recalculating, re-entering and redrawing. “Knowing that everything will most certainly work before you are building, this saves time on actual construction in the field,” says Dancey...(Page 44)

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