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Building Information Modeling (BIM)
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What is BIM?
"A digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility that has shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during it's life-cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition. A basic premise of BIM is collaboration by different stakeholders at different phases of the life-cycle of a facility to insert, extract, update, or modify information in the BIM to support and reflect the roles of that stakeholder." -National BIM Standard
Strickland Fire Protection uses a software package that conforms with the definition of BIM. Typical CAD software is vector based in that it does not recognize any group of vectors as anything other than that. In other words if a designer draws a door in the CAD program it does not recognize the lines as a door. This is defined as "unintelligent." In an "intelligent" software instead of recognizing just the vectors, the program actually recognizes the lines as a door if stored in the database as such. All designers at Strickland Fire Protection exclusively use this software package. The software is highly compatible however and CAD files can easily be integrated as well as exported. |
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