BIM: Enabling Sustainability and Asset Management through Knowledge Management

Table 4

The benefits of using business information modelling.

Benefit	Result
Increased utility and speed (in all phases)	Information is more easily shared, can be value-added, and reused
Enhanced collaborations (mainly in the design and construction phase)	Across discipline and organisation, built asset proposals can be rigorously analysed, simulations can be performed quickly, and performance benchmarked, enabling improved and innovative solutions
Better data quality (in all phases)	Documentation output is flexible and exploits automation. Requirements, design, construction, and operational information can be used in FM resulting in better management of assets
Visualisation of data (mainly in the design and construction phase)	The added value of 3D visualization leaves little room for misinterpretation by all parties involved, and it helps to realign their expectations
Enhanced fault finding (in all phases)	BIM greatly reduces conflict issues by integrating all the key systems into the model. Designing BIM systems can detect internal conflicts, and model viewing systems can detect and highlight conflicts between the models and other information imported into the viewer

The key advantage of BIM is its accurate geometrical representation of all the parts of a built asset capturing all necessary and relevant data of every part in an integrated environment.