Building Information Modeling: A Strategic Implementation Guide for Architects, Engineers, Constructors, and Real Estate Asset Managers is the perfect guide that makes the business case for building information modeling. Topics covered throughout the text included how building information modeling can improve collaboration while facilitating better design and construction. The text also covers optimizing workflow and reducing errors, and discusses the barriers of building information modeling from business culture to training, as well as how these barriers can be overcome.

This text comes with insightful accounts from early adopters of the BIM software with valuable case studies that describe how firms throughout the construction, operations, building design and management industry can benefit from BIM software. This is an important resource that is essential for all engineers, architects, real estate asset managers and constructors. This text is 216 pages.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Building Industry Challenges and Opportunities.
• Chapter 2: BIM Implementation Strategies.
• Chapter 3: Business Process Reform.
• Chapter 4: BIM-based Enterprise Workflow.
• Chapter 5: The Building Lifecycle.
• Chapter 6: Building Information Exchange Challenges.
• Chapter 7: Building Information Exchange Requirements.
• Chapter 8: The Way Forward.