Building Information Modeling (BIM)

The May/June issue of Facilities Manager magazine from APPA focuses on Building Information Modeling (BIM). The lead article, "Getting Started and Working with Building Information Modeling" is available to the public in PDF format. It begins: "This article will assume that you have heard of Building Information Modeling or BIM but have not developed a strategy as to how to get the most out of it.

The National BIM Standard (NBIMS) has defined BIM as a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such, it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle from inception onward. A basic premise of BIM is collaboration by different stakeholders at different phases of the life cycle of a facility to insert, extract, update, or modify information to support and reflect the roles of that stakeholder. The BIM is a shared digital representation founded on open standards for interoperability.

Read the full article and issue here:
http://www.appa.org/FacilitiesManager/index.cfm