Are structural engineers capitalising on Structural BIM?

摘要

The benefits that Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers the construction industry are generally well understood. However there is still a proportion of the engineering community who believe BIM only addresses external communication with the client, architect and contractor. While I believe this is at the heart of BIM, there is so much more BIM can offer engineering firms if they look at their own internal design processes. Perhaps less well known is the concept of internal BIM - or Structural BIM - which is the sharing of project data within the structural design office, between the structural engineer and the technician.