Introduction: The Principles of BIM

This chapter covers the principles of a building information modeling (BIM) approach within users' office environment and summarizes some of the many practices used in today's architectural workflows. It is important to understand how the significant changes to tools and processes provided by BIM affect the roles and responsibilities of the project team. Project managers need to plan staffing and labor required to complete tasks in every project phase. The chapter considers three primary roles in every BIM project: design architect; technical architect; and coordinator. These roles represent efforts and general tasks that users need to take into account on any BIM project. Creating a standard BIM project execution planning process will help project teams to plan and execute the required processes to achieve the anticipated goals. Autodesk Revit software is a BIM application for authoring parametric 3D models that generate geometry with embedded information for the design and construction of buildings and infrastructure.