Building Information Modelling in Construction Industry: A Review

Due to numerous steps of construction industry and its complicated and extensive structure, errors and reworks often might happen in this section. As such, BIM (Building Information Modeling) is regarded as a beneficial tool in minimizing the waste and improving the efficiency of building construction. This paper reviews and summarizes a substantial amount of requisite information relating to BIM from the literature reviews between 2005 and 2012. It has discussed the concept, explained the history, planning and implementation process and the benefits of using BIM in construction industry. Furthermore, the application of BIM in construction process of two specific projects has been explained. Additionally, the importance of BIM for architects, engineers and construction industry has been taken into consideration. In other words ,BIM can be used by engineers ,architects, project managers ,etc. in order to achieve these goals :To decrease design errors, To reduce clash detection, To boost the integration of cost and time, To improve the integration of design and construction phase, To increase the collaboration between different construction sections and finally to improve recycling.