AutoCAD Drafting vs. BIM Services

What do you prefer AutoCAD or Revit?

AutoCAD Drafting has been a talk of the town in construction industry since years. We all in the AEC industry have been using AutoCAD for our drafting purpose. Same is the case with Building Information Modelling (BIM). It is becoming increasingly vital for all types of small and big modern construction projects. It also helps facilitates greater levels of collaboration and interoperability within the design environment.

AutoCAD and BIM (Building Information Modelling) create rich digital model of a physical building that can be used to design the building by the design team, to model the construction of the building by the construction team and to manage the facility through its life by the building owner.

Advantages of AutoCAD Drafting services:

Computer-aided design began replacing drafting boards, yet three decades later, many design packages, such as AutoCAD continue to mimic the hand drafting process.

• AutoCAD Drafting offers CAD drafting services at competitive rates through skilled professionals.
• AutoCAD Drafting does all conversions by precision redrafting by hands. We provide only precision AutoCAD Drafting.
• Our professionals have years of experience in converting drawings to AutoCAD.
• With years of experience into AutoCAD drafting, we assist our clients with increase in their productivity.
• As our Draftsmen delivers appropriate 2D Drawings it helps the designer to better visualize the design using 3D modelling, this helps in reducing errors.
• Outsource AutoCAD Drafting offers quick Turnaround time with lower overheads for our clients.

Advantages of BIM services:

BIM services facilitate coordination and collaboration among the various disciplines including planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of new and existing buildings. As all departments in a construction team can work on the same model, it helps coordinate the changes automatically. Please go through some of the major benefits of BIM services

• BIM models help substantial cost savings in design and construction
• With the help of BIM, we can save precious time and money as it reduces or eliminates extra coordination checks
• As information is more coordinated with BIM, it results in fewer errors
• Effective BIM helps eliminate as many uncertainties as possible, before the construction started
• As BIM makes retrieval of information faster and easier, productivity is increased
• BIM helps smooth transfer of information between the phases of design, construction and operation, as each discipline adds information to the model at each step and can refer back to it.
• With effective BIM services, we can readily get and retrieve faster vital information such as location of quantities, vendors of materials and estimation and tendering information

In short, BIM and AutoCAD services both helps improve understanding of the building’s operation, make adaptations, under take renovations, alterations and additions faster at reasonable rate.

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BIM Implementation – HOK buildingSMART

BIM, more than a software solution, is a process that is supported by technology and collaborative working. Waste of information due to mistrust, lack of process an standards, incomplete information and lack of understanding of the data available etc affect the lifecycle of construction project adversely. As BIM can deliver the information and data in a usable manner throughout the whole project life cycle, it improves the efficiency, quality and sustainability of buildings delivered to the clients and thereby maximizes the return on investment.

Implementation of BIM needs a fundamental change in the traditional design an working practices, which means people have to move out their comfort zones into new ways of thinking and working. This is the situation that we need to know about HOK buildingSMART

What is HOK buildingSMART?

HOK buildingSMART, which is an approach to design, leverages 3D modeling, concurrent analysis and integrated delivery practices. With this project teams can collaborate on virtual models, test ideas, optimize building performance and coordinate the work process before the actual construction starts. HOK, a world leader in utilizing BIM is the founder of HOK buildingSMART. According to HOK, the definition of HOK buildingSMART is like this.

“HOK buildingSAMRT is an innovative way of working in a virtual environment using intelligent objects in a model server so that the design, construction, operation and sustainability are tested and optimized before the work commences on site.”

The model, the heart of buildingSMART is developed using the Autodesk Revit platform. Here are the key elements that map the buildingSMART business platform.

• Model Input
• Design Parametrics
• Performance based design
• Specification
• Quality and delivery
• Fabrication Workflows
• Integrated project delivery
• FM

Like any other data system, understanding your goals and objectives as well as the needed deliverable's is extremely important in BIM, as it ensures maximum efficiency's for the clients. Moreover, you should also have a clear idea of how you collaborate with others and which technologies should be used. HOK buildingSMART can achieve this by capturing all the essential information in Design Tea, Project Execution Plan (PxP). Defining which BIM uses will be implemented on which project to get the maximum benefit is the primary goal of the PxP. So, PxP is a fundamental element that ensures the buildingSMART objectives are met. HOK buildingSMART continues to push the boundaries of limitations to BIM implementation recognizing that the internet and cloud computing can offer new and truly global collaborative ways of working.

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Find out what are the Benefits of #BIM to Architects!!!

BIM for Architects

BIM is one of the big architectural buzz terms today and so defining it precisely is worth before explaining its uses and impact. First of all don’t think that BIM is a hand drawing or computer drafting. Instead it is an evolution from drawing on paper to drafting on the computer. BIM is a 3-dimensional digital representation of a building in which the output useful to the realization of a design such as sections, plans, perspectives, elevations, spreadsheets etc. are created. BIM is used frequently in architecture to design projects at very early stages, visualize real world, BIM cost estimating, and analyze performance and appearance and to document everything accurately.

Building Information Modeling enables architects and designers to create design and understand and communicate performance, appearance and cost early in the building design process. It acts as a tool for the architects to capture and analyze design concepts easily and maintain coordinated and reliable design data through documentation and construction with more accuracy. As BIM enables the architects to know how the building will look like even before it is built, he can coordinate the team members in the project to show what is beneficial and what may not work in the process. It helps minimize any possible waste and reduce errors. In this way, the building owner can use the money more economically.

BIM determines the various components of a building and quantities of materials and resources required. It gives precise information about the construction of the building. We can see both interior and exterior of the building using BIM. All such advantages make BIM very beneficial for construction and architecture business.

It is with the design, the sustainability of a building starts. BIM helps create sustainable designs by analyzing and helping process the many functions required for sustainable design. BIM simplifies the process as sustainable buildings are needed.

Let us brief the advantages of BIM services for architects

• It provides more efficient and enhanced design collaboration
• It early identifies issues that might arise
• It reduces conflicts and changes during construction
• It reduces reworks and errors
• It creates an overall better project management
• It improves cost estimating and building maintenance
• It repeats business and referral

Before BIM, most of the architects had used computer aided drafting that used vector files. Architects can out passes what was available previously with the technology available in BIM, as it involves more data sharing between the various components.

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Importance of Employers Information Requirements in BIM Solutions.

Why EIR?

As a client you may wonder that is it really necessary to state your requirements, shouldn't the professionals know what you want or what to do?

Surely they would be using the best of industry practice, surely they will be committed to producing, managing and exchanging information in such a way that not incur an additional cost to you or your client.

So what is the problem?

The problem is that BIM is not the norm yet.

Our industry is predominantly paper-based and fragmented, wherein different people are involved at different stages of the project, which makes it difficult to find that one person who is interested in the client’s interest from start to finish. In other words, we are still using outdated practices in a Digital Age, wherein it becomes difficult to find the right person to coordinate.

Employers Information Requirements (EIR) is a document, which should clearly define the information about the built asset being procured and the process for information development, management and delivery during the project work stages. The construction clients, who are not being experts in information management, may find it difficult to describe their information requirements.

In a traditional paper-based environment that the construction industry used to work earlier, the clients trusted the design and construction teams to get the information needed to build and operate their facility in forms of printed drawings, schedules, specifications, reports etc. But, now clients are aware of the drawbacks of paper-based information process. It is difficult to access, understand or query, slow to produce or change, prone to errors that lead to a lot of duplication of effort.

BIM solution proposes a systematized approach for these inherent issues of a paper-based process.  BIM is not just an addition of something to a traditional design-management process. But, it is an alternative methodology and a more sophisticated method to produce, manage and exchange project information.

The main advantage of BIM is that it captures all the information in one place. So, if anybody wants to change any information on the project, all the documents can be kept coordinated and up to date. As a result, information can be created, managed and exchanged efficiently. Moreover, the repetition of effort associated with the conventional exchange of paper-based information can also be avoided.

BIM modelling services provide a data-rich 3D building model that is able to navigate and explore all the project information. Thus every stakeholder gets a chance for a better understanding of what is being proposed and how it will suit and work together. The software is able to analyze these digital models for energy performance, structural performance, clash detection, quantity take-off and program sequencing. Thus the project team members can optimize design BIM solutions, minimize uncertainty and risk and exchange clear information to the clients and other stakeholders.

BIM process gathers and manages vital information about the building assets in the digital environment for both the design and construction process. It ensures that the facilities management team avail this information at handover in a useful format to bring into their operational systems.

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