Benefits to contractors, product suppliers and manufacturers
BIM will enable contractors to quickly draw down the quantities information they need during tender to issue to sub-contractors without the need for third party consultants to be engaged to develop a Bill of Quantities. BIM also allows sub-contractors to quickly take off more accurate specific quantities against individual materials.
VE (Value Engineering) options can be tested easily and comparative costs drawn down against alternative specifications.
BIM allows product suppliers and manufacturers to supply detailed ‘virtual products’ to architects, engineers and specifiers as easily as they traditionally provided data or 2D CAD details with all the consequent benefits of relationship building and product loyalty in specification.