Building Information Management (BIM): From Planning Towards Work Process Tool?

The need for better integration and higher coordination in order to deliver the envisaged building requirements should avoid problematic situations in which the various professionals are not well informed about the building plans. This situation calls for more cooperative and interactive work practices e.g. at the interface between planning and production. Beside organisational gaps there are also technical dysfunctions to face. For example, there is no common platform for all B&C companies. The different planning systems from traditional analogue up to digital are difficult to integrate. Co-existence of different planning systems can make an integrative and well coordinated approach for planning and construction difficult. Extra costs as well as damages and delays could be the result of these gaps.