24.04.15
The benefits of BIM
Source: Alan Blunden
I fully support all of what Hyder say. However, from the constructors' perspective, to really exploit the full benefits the collaboration we and our supply chain need to be engaged much earlier in the design than most clients' current procurement strategies permit.
If the design is taken to GRIP 4 before the supply chain are involved then many of the opportunities to optimise design for manufacture and offsite modularisation may be lost, or may require a major re-work of the design to bring the huge benefits to quality, time, whole life cost, H&S etc. that can be achieved.
Engaging BIM