Digital three-dimensional representation of a building, based on objects, corresponding to real world components (such as doors, walls and windows), with associated relationships (with other object), attributes (materials) and properties (cost, construction phases, maintenance information).
Published in Chapter:
Building Information Modeling (BIM): Great Misunderstanding or Potential Opportunities for the Design Disciplines?
Carlo Bianchini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy),
Carlo Inglese (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy),
Alfonso Ippolito (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Daniele Maiorino (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), and Luca James Senatore (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0680-5.ch004
Abstract
The BIM universe will undoubtedly arouse great and diversified interests amongst actors involved in the design/building process but also of scholars dealing with representation disciplines. The BIM systems appear in fact particularly suitable to respond to both needs providing on a single platform analytic tool, visualization interfaces, assessment instruments but also a bundle for the representation of reality. And, in addition to that, always taking into account the management of the process in terms of timing that is a key element for a correct handling of any building workflow. Nevertheless, the urgency of optimization of time and resources will drive very rapidly this change achieving, eventually, the real result: an evolution of future generation professionals, more willing and able to cooperate beyond personal skills.