#12 - Benefits of BIM for Owners in Preconstruction Phase

• Concept, Feasibility, and Design Benefits: Before owners engage an architect, it is necessary to determine whether a building of a given size, quality level and desired requirements can be built within a given cost and time budget. So to put it simply, Can a building meet the financial requirements of an owner? If these questions can be answered with relative certainty, owners can then proceed with the expectation that their goals are achievable. Finding out that a particular design is significantly over budget after a considerable amount of time and effort has been expended is wasteful. An approximate building model built into and linked to a cost database can be of tremendous value and assistance to an owner.

• Increased Building Performance and Quality: Developing a schematic model prior to generating a detailed building model allows for a more careful evaluation of the proposed scheme to determine whether it meets the building's functional and sustainable requirements. Early evaluation of design alternatives using analysis/simulation tools increases the overall quality of the building.

• Improved Collaboration using Integrated Project Delivery: When the owner uses Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for project procurement, BIM can be used by the project team from the beginning of the design to improve their understanding of the project requirements and to extract cost estimates as the design is developed. This allows design and cost to be better understood and also avoids the use of paper exchange ad its associated delays.

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