Tangible Benefits of BIM

While customer demand is currently the biggest factor motivating precasters to adopt BIM, producers such as Coreslab are part of a growing group that recognize its benefits. “The ability to create 3D drawings is insufficient justification for implementing BIM,” says Roger Becker, managing director of research and development for the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute. “A precast producer’s investment in BIM can only be justified by achieving process improvements that will become available with better data and data management.”

These improvements include:

• reduced defects

• minimization of data re-entry

• cost tracking

• quality tracking

• piece tracking

• electronic data for hardware fabrication, rebar fabrication, and batch plant operation