The ICT Table: BIM, the new construction methodology

It would avoid a huge number of unforeseen events, demolitions, repairs, cost overruns and even lawsuits that often inflate project budgets.

To reduce this uncertainty, the global construction and architecture industry is increasingly turning to an IT-based methodology.

This is BIM, which stands for Building Information Modelling, a process that is used in the preparations for a construction site and allows the building to be virtually constructed in order to analyse, in all its details, what it will look like once it is finished.

How much is the BIM methodology known and used in Uruguay, and what possibilities does it offer for builders, engineers or architects? In today's La Mesa TIC we talked to four specialists in this methodology: Dante Prato, surveyor engineer and director of Geosys Limitada, a Uruguayan company that sells surveying, geodesy, agriculture and geomatics services; Mercedes Carriquiry, architect, director of ArchSourcing, a firm that offers architectural services based on the BIM methodology; Rodrigo García Macchiavello, architect, managing partner of A3 & Partners, a company specialised in providing project development services under the BIM system. He is a member of the recently founded BIM FORUM Uruguay and is part of the standardisation and normative work team; and Nicole Halm, architect. She is currently Director of Quanam's BIM business unit, from where she leads the development of BIM consultancy services both locally and internationally.

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Source: In Perspective