The Building Information Modeling (BIM) for the new Mills-Peninsula hospital is the first to merge the plans of designers and every contracting profession to generate a 3D image of the entire project.
View of the Smart Boards and projectors with Navisworks software program displaying a 3-D model of the central utility plant (CUP). The I-Room is where construction team meets to review and coordinate the trades for the entire project.
Some of the benefits of using BIM in this way, include:
- Helps avoid clashes between the trades. For example, if air vents and fire sprinklers collide in the plans, the error will be caught in the design stage on the computer well before installation in the field.
- Saves labor in the field, because plans can be viewed online. Tradesmen’s inspections and measurements can be made in the office and pieces manufactured more efficiently at the contractor’s work place, instead of at the construction site.
- Assists in visualizing future scenarios, such as the amount of space base isolators may move in an earthquake.
- Achieves significant time and cost savings.
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