BIM: NECESSITY OR NOVELTY?

摘要

Building information modeling (BIM) has quickly evolved from a pipe dream to a desirable design reality. Since its inception in the late 1960s, BIM's 3D-model-based software has evolved to integrate aspects of physical design across all disciplines. The industry's embrace of BIM has occurred rather rapidly. According to NBS' BIM Report 2019, BIM awareness and adoption has grown from a little more than 10% in 2011 to around 70% in 2019. The year 2018 saw the biggest year-on-year growth on BIM usage and awareness since 2014, and that trend doesn't appear to be relaxing any time soon. Today, more and more engineers are utilizing BIM to help sand the edges off a once fragmented and poorly coordinated design and construction process. But, just how many firms are using BIM, and how exactly do they feel about it? Is there a definitive return on investment? Is BIM viewed as a necessity or more of a novelty? We uncovered some answers courtesy of two recently released industry surveys.