New technologies can't revolutionize industries with their own effort rather they require supporting infrastructures to help with the transition. Same is the case for BIM.It necessitates a supporting infrastructure to reap its full benefits.
BIM is a useful tool for dealing with project information. The information in BIM can efficiently be managed through project information management (PIM) software that accomplishes all the filing, tracking, finding, logging and sharing associated with fruitful design and construction projects.
- With in-built document control system, PIM links to Revit and records the allocation of drawing revisions put out from project models.
- PIM software links Revit spaces through a project-wide spatial index and Revit modeling & building programming personnel will be able to work in tandem as well as dynamically collaborate the layouts of room in the model by providing the space information in Excel.
- PIM software efficiently handles building element information directly or in a worksheet. In order to maintain updated and authentic information, PIM is coordinated with Revit.
- With PIM software, read-only versions of models can be distributed in the cloud and this feature facilitates the project team members to analyze and maneuver models devoid of special software or training.
As an addition advantages, PIM software facilitates the engineers and project managers having lack of knowledge for accessing the model directly, to apply PIM search capabilities for locating, arranging and sorting out coordinated building elements rapidly through any published property.
PIM Tasks associated with BIM Workflows
PIM tasks associated with BIM workflows range from logging model exchanges as transmittals, detaining decision trails or else obscured in email inboxes, locating design review markups, looking for the contents of sheet sets, and distributing model views—snapshots of the model—to allow discussions and speed up project workflows, like those to deal with submittals and RFIs.
The most of the project team members will be able to access BIM as it can inspect and mark up models devoid of the model's authoring software. The text data related to PIM co-ordinated building elements is indexed and pursuable.
With PIM-to-BIM connection, it will be possible in near future to click on a pump in a model to avail the maintenance schedules, warranties and inspections connected with that particular item devoid of loading individual documents in the model.
BIM + PIM = Makeover
To generate and develop model, some crucial project information like the emails, meeting minutes, Office files, sketches, markups and other documentation should be accumulated and searchable for future applications.
The model can reveal these discussions but it is not possible to control them. Emails, specifications, RFIs and other types of project information will never become model elements. For this purpose, there should be supporting infrastructure like PIM to bring its latent qualities or abilities to develop into something in the future.
PIM software will bring revolution for construction professionals to organize project information in the office through enterprise software as well as in the cloud through web-based software, or in the jobsite through mobile gadgets.