Designing and drafting constitute part of the critical steps in construction planning. Today, BIM can be recognized as an enriched set of technologies and processes for risk management and enhancing safety factors in construction projects. In this blog post, the reader will learn more about risk evaluation and safety assessment in the context of BIM and project development phases.
This classic work of Dr. van Beek is a great reference on how improving design quality results not only in improved constructability but also in tangible benefits for the entire project.
Technology brought about by BIM makes it possible for architects, engineers, and contractors to develop smart 3D models of projects. These models include essential design information and spatial coordination besides the detection of interference. Using BIM early involves bringing out design problems and clashes that are easily solvable. This results in enhanced design quality and constructability. It is far cheaper to tackle them at the planning phase rather than wait for the Designing and Drafting phase, whereby it will cost many times more to rectify the same mistakes. Consequently, BIM helps to reduce safety hazards and potential condensed over time and additional expenses to redo previous work.
Time and Cost Tradeoff and Constructing Simulation and Sequencing
4D BIM adds time or project schedule sequence to the intelligent 3D model. Through the construction of the mentioned 4D models, teams can virtually perform the construction sequence in a real-world manner. This enhances the planning in the timing and sequencing of material arrival and delivery, manpower, equipment usage, and prefabrication, together with the coordination on site. With sequencing problems disclosed before groundbreaking, 4D BIM allows contractors to orchestrate flawless site management and avert precarious on-site traffic and confusion.
Critical Construction Activities are Rehearsed
Certain construction activities require numerous and intricate risky operations, such as placing large parts of prefabricated building structures or pouring huge concrete members. BIM Modeling Services can also make 4D and 5D viz, which enable the crew to virtually run through construction phasing before it happens in real reality. This enhances safety because it eliminates the guesswork associated with carrying out a dangerous process or activity on-site.
Minimizing Safety Inspection and Monitoring
BIM also allows for optimal continual and active construction operation safety inspection, evaluation, and monitoring. Application software can make downloads of Tablet and Smartphone devices about the BIM model via the cloud. Employees can then apply these mobile devices to extract up-to-date model information at the location. This highly detailed, BIM-integrated setting improves overall site visibility and affords superior safety planning, inspection programs, progress tracking systems, quality assurance programs, and event reporting.
Building Culture for Safety Collaboration
Last but not least, through unprecedented levels of visibility and integration across the construction project delivery process, BIM creates an organizational safety climate focused on openness, interprofessionalism, and safety of the owner, designer, and construction team. Such a culture of collaboration in turn improves risk assessment, safety contingency, and safe delivery of construction projects. By having BIM, all stakeholders become more aware of changes in the site situation and how everyone’s work and processes interconnect. The group-oriented culture of the BIM eliminates the traditional problem of organizational silos and the emphasis on culpability that hampers construction safety for all participants.
Conclusion
Framing Estimating Services are also improved with the help of the 3D BIM model since take-offs could be more accurate and not arbitrary where on-site seems to be risky cost-cutting subsequently. As shown throughout this post, the concept of BIM technologies and collaborative work processes offers myriad advantages for risk management and procedures for safety in construction. Through the lifecycle, BIM provides the team with better visibility, enabling planning, sequencing, and delivery. Those construction firms that fail to embrace BIM do so to the detriment of suffering increased levels of competitiveness, and, at the same time, are deprived of the enormous safety advantages offered by the technologies. As the communication of information is enhanced through the cloud on the construction site, in the upcoming days BIM will further hold more characteristics and uses for enhancing construction safety.
