Wednesday, 15 June 2011

TECHNOLOGY ADVANTAGE and INNOVATION

Technology advantage is the drive for innovation in any enterprise.
Innovation brings a competitive advantage in terms of higher added value, increased labour productivity and expenses reduction.
Technology advantage applied to AEC industry has led to the creation of 3D digital models.
In itself the creation of 3D model geometry does NOT offset the amount of manpower resources required to create the 3D model itself unless object data can be extracted from the 3D model.
The geometrical data is generated automatically in the creation of the 3D model objects (area, volumes, unit count, dimensions). The meta data is added to the 3D model objects through a semi-automatic process.
Therefore it is critical for the success of a 3D model, the leveraging of the project data.
BIM becomes the merge of the traditional 3D model, albeit parametric object based and the project data created during the design and construction phase of a construction project.
The 3D digital prototypes and the related databases are at the core of BIM activities: engineering analysis, project performance monitoring and forecasting through scenario simulations.