Advanced BIM Applications in the Construction Industry

Abstract

The BIM-based digital fabrication methodology enables communication, collaboration, and coordination with construction companies, construction project managers, and professional construction companies and provides error minimization and time reduction. The study conducted by Y. Ji et al. titled “A BIM-Based Study on the Comprehensive Benefit Analysis for Prefabricated Building Projects in China” analyses the implementation of BIM to identify the economic impact of different construction techniques, in this case, the prefabricated construction techniques. F. Rodrigues et al. in “Development of a Web Application for Historical Building Management through BIM Technology” demonstrate the necessity of the development and implementation of a strategy of intervention, which contributes to the preservation and maintenance of heritage, through the application of a management system able to answer this need in a reliable process. The work presented and the work analysed in the literature review show that Historical Building Information Modeling (HBIM) applications are often needed to jointly perform different kinds of analyses and to properly connect the related environments and formats; thus, it is clear why there is a need to focus the development of HBIM applications with a heterogeneous multimodels’ interoperability with a standardized approach.