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It is hard to imagine a company that uses only paper and pencils for drawings or a project manager without a mobile phone. Computer-aided design (CAD) technologies, cloud technologies, mobile devices and applications are now common and companies who do not use them are not competitive. Similar to swapping pencils for CAD 20 years ago, soon everyone will change CAD for building information modeling (BIM). This paper aims to explore the ways to realize the full potential of BIM in the New Zealand architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. This study analyses the potential of BIM by describing its benefits for the industry, and provides an outline of the barriers in the way to these benefits before formulating recommendations on how to overcome these barriers. The research is based on a literature review, online survey and interviews of professionals from the Auckland AEC industry. Findings show that BIM may indeed improve project characteristics of cost, quality and time, as well as providing companies with internal benefits such as improvement of image or profitability. However, the BIM process is relatively new in New Zealand and there is still a lack of BIM specialists and an overall understanding of what BIM is about. The productivity of BIM may be significantly increased by improving communication and collaboration within the industry. In order to facilitate BIM implementation in the New Zealand AEC industry, to improve collaboration, it is would be beneficial to establish a National BIM library and to implement a multidisciplinary approach to the New Zealand AEC tertiary education system.

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The BIM Handbook, Second Edition provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. Updates to this edition include: •Completely updated material covering the current practice and technology in this fast-moving field •Expanded coverage of lean construction and its use of BIM, with special focus on Integrated Project Delivery throughout the book •New insight on the ways BIM facilitates sustainable building •New information on interoperability schemas and collaboration tools •Six new case studies C Eastman, P Teicholtz, R Sacks and K Liston

Lack of adequate visualization of project construction operations often causes project parties to struggle with large amount of data. 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a static model, built for representing the geometry of a constructed building and its respective information. However, construction processes are dynamic and require dynamic representation. 4D BIM is gaining more momentum in construction research and in industry. There are commercial packages that can generate 4D BIM and numerous researchers have used 4D BIM in their research. However, related literature does not disclose the methodology used or the know-how of creating 4D BIM. This paper presents an automated methodology and describes how to construct a 4D BIM. The automated methodology maps the 3D BIM objects to project schedule activities through a newly added attribute to each 3D BIM object. As such, different groups of objects within the 3D BIM are assigned to different activities. For each group, a series of decisions are made to classify whether it belongs to completed activity, activity in progress or activity to be executed in the future. The developed methodology was implemented in prototype software. Autodesk Revit has been customized so that the integration between 3D BIM and project schedule be applied using Revit Application Programming Interface (API). The developed automated methodology and software were applied to a construction project in Montreal area to demonstrate its use. The developed methodology is straightforward and easy to use. It is expected to facilitate the utilization of 4D BIM in research and in practice.