We searched the internet to find the definition of #BIM and #Building #Information #Modeling, and this is what we found.
#Wikipedia:
Building information modeling (BIM) is a process supported by various tools, technologies and contracts involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. Building information models (BIMs) are computer files (often but not always in proprietary formats and containing proprietary data) which can be extracted, exchanged or networked to support decision-making regarding a built asset.
#Trimble:
BIM is an acronym for Building Information Modeling or Building Information Management. It is a highly collaborative process that allows architects, engineers, real estate developers, contractors, manufacturers, and other construction professionals to plan, design, and construct a structure or building within one 3D model. It can also span into the operation and management of buildings using data that building or structure owners have access to (hence the Building Information Management).
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the holistic process of creating and managing information for a built asset. Based on an intelligent model and enabled by a cloud platform, BIM integrates structured, multi-disciplinary data to produce a digital representation of an asset across its lifecycle, from planning and design to construction and operations.
#Graphisoft:
The foundation of BIM (Building Information Model) is a digital 3D model of the building. It consists of walls, slabs, roofs, doors, windows and such, just like the real building. In BIM we also assign invisible data (metadata) to the model’s digital elements, such as structural function, fire resistance value, acoustic performance value, thermal transmittance, price, weight, product information, etc. The model and the metadata together build a complex database we call BIM.
#Bentley:
Using a BIM methodology improves collaboration, and it ensures a new level of control over projects of all sizes. Better Project outcomes are achieved through a complete flow of information among applications and across distributed project teams for greater accuracy across the entire supply chain.
International Standards Organization (#ISO):
Use of a shared digital representation of a built asset to facilitate design, construction and operation processes to form a reliable basis for decisions.
US National Building Information Model Standard Project Committee (#NBIMS):
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. A BIM is a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition.
Building Information Models are characterized by:
Building components that are represented with intelligent digital representations (objects) that ’know‘ what they are, and can be associated with computable graphic and data attributes and parametric rules.
Components that include data that describe how they behave, as needed for analyses and work processes, e.g., takeoff, specification, and energy analysis.
Consistent and non-redundant data such that changes to component data are represented in all views of the component. Coordinated data such that all views of a model are represented in a coordinated way
Who knew it would take that long, just to get a simple definition of BIM.
We think it's that 'I', the 'Information' portion of Building Information Modeling that makes it complex. The level of embedded information in a model, is what can really make one model look very different, from another model. A Building Information Model, can contain as much or as little information, as the team chooses to include.
Which definition do you relate more closely to? How would you define BIM?