BIM and Construction Management: Proven Tools, Methods, and Workflows

Introduction

This book was created for those who are involved in the building information modeling (BIM) community or who want to learn more about BIM and what it means for construction management professionals. This book introduces what BIM is conceptually and shows the real-world ways BIM technologies can be put to use. BIM represents a fundamental change in the way design and construction professionals work, and the BIM opportunities that are currently being leveraged and explored by construction companies around the globe are staggering. This book represents years of study, practice, and discussion of BIM, how it functions in current methods, and what is being changed to better enable this technology in the design and construction industries. ...