This document discusses how building information modeling (BIM) can help address challenges in meeting client requirements for building design, construction drawings, and timely delivery at minimal cost. It explains that 3D BIM initially focused only on design information, but 4D, 5D, and 6D BIM add time, cost, and sustainability dimensions. This allows for more productive construction scheduling in 4D, better project cost estimation in 5D, and detailing sustainability attributes in 6D. The document encourages architecture, engineering, and construction professionals to utilize these BIM capabilities.

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3.  Meeting up clients’ (building owners) requirements in terms of
building design, construction drawings and delivery is becoming
highly challenges as they always demand high quality and timely
construction of the buildings with minimum cost possible.
 Now delivering a project within deadlines with reduced project
cost is certainly not that easy as it sounds until AEC professionals
make best use of cutting edge tools and technology that is
available in the market.
 Planning, design and construction are integral steps of any
building process which results into the effective management of
construction activities throughout project lifecycle.

4.  Now to carry out the whole process efficiently and productively
Building Information Modeling must be brought into picture by
AEC professionals which allow them to successfully address all
the hassles and inconveniences that come across in the process.
 BIM both as a process and as a technology has come a long way
since its initial stages wherein only 3D models were common
among design and construction professionals for executing
building projects.
 The assistance provided by 3D BIM models was only related to
building design as they contained all inclusive information about
design elements and their relationships. Nothing apart from
design information could be extracted from these digital models
which are developed entirely in Revit.

5.  But the industry experts felt that only design related information
is not enough for developing cost-effective buildings which can
be delivered to facility owners as per their demands (within
deadlines) and such concerns brought into picture 4D, 5D and
6D BIM.
 4D, 5D and 6D BIM are nothing but the new dimensions which
are added little by little to 3D models. A highly indispensable
dimension which is added to 3D and which ultimately gives birth
to 4D is ‘Time.’
 When time is added to 3D it helps building professionals
(architects, engineers, and general contractors etc.) to create
highly productive and practical construction schedules which
make the entire process efficient.

6.  4D BIM makes it possible for AEC professionals to
figure out or recognize time and schedule based
clashes which can eventually lead to chaotic situations
which are very unproductive for construction process.
 Similarly, 5D and 6D BIM also provide huge
advantages to building professionals when it comes to
estimating the cost of the project and describing in
details about the sustainability attributes of the
building.

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