BIM: Building Information Modeling Overview
By Dele Royce Okeniyi (BIM Mananger) At the Nigerian BIM Expo, Lagos. March 12, 2016. TOPICS: WHAT IS BIM ? WORKFLOW / PROCESS OVERVIEW. WHAT CAN IT DELIVERS ? DOES IT WORTH IT ? LETS GIVE IT A TRY. These topics will be discussed here one after the others. Please stay tuned. Lets start the first, WHAT IS BIM ? WHAT IS BIM BIM is an acronym that stands for Building Information Modeling . BIM is very much talked about these days in the building industry, but when asked you will receive more or less different definitions from different people? Some say BIM is a type of software. Some say BIM is the 3D virtual model of buildings. Others say BIM is a process or BIM is nothing more than the collection of all building data organized into a structure database easy to query both in a "visual" and a "numerical" way. It is safe to say that BIM is all the above and some more… Now let’s see BIM explained in laymen’s terms. W...