What is Building Information Modeling?
Triglyph members harness the power of proven design, management and communication technologies through use of common systems and standards. From email to project websites to interactive internet meetings, the technologies are maximized to help bring about quick and accurate solutions for you.
At the core of our technologies is the Building Information Model (BIM). The BIM is a computer database of building design information. From this central database, different “views” of the information can be generated. Because the resulting documents are derived from the same database, they are all continuously coordinated.
These views include not only the plan, section and elevation drawings typically found in a set of construction documents, but also door, window and finish schedules, material listings, 3D renderings and animations, and virtual reality scenes.
Furthermore the generation and coordination of these different views is automatic. This means time consuming, low-level tasks such as drafting, drawing coordination, manual schedules, and document generation are eliminated.
Technology is waiting for us humans to catch up.
If there is one information model, there should be no need for separate contractor drawings such as shop drawings. Schedules and costs can be generated immediately from the model. Purchase orders, bill of materials, change order documentation all can be documented and generated from the model.
The technology is here. However, the fragmented parts of the AEC Industry now need to figure out how to work together. New kinds of relationships are needed. New roles and responsibilities created. New forms of agreement drawn up. And, the insurance industry needs to understand that this is a benefit to the overall project not a liability.
Many Triglyph members are working with the construction industry to bring higher quality to their customers in less time, and at less cost.
Expanding the Model’s Usefulness: The Facility Information Database
Though the model is “born” with a description of the building’s geometry it can “live and grow” throughout the lifecycle of the actual building. The ultimate value of the Building Information Model is for information creation, use, reuse and exchange, of which electronic Construction Documents are but one single component.
There is a cause-effect relationship that exists between different kinds of information. As such it is ideal if the different processes draw their needed information from a common, coordinated database. Thanks to the work of the IAI (International Alliance for Interoperability) disparate software programs can now read and write the data they need from the same database.
The single "Facility Information Database (FID) will allow for accurate and timely storage and retrieval of facility information. Furthermore it will create an environment where new combinations and connections can create new knowledge and new value for the facility.
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