BIM

Client Crossrail and software firm Bentley have launched the UK’s first dedicated Building Information Modelling (Bim) academy today. The academy aims to make the Bentley Bim technology suite available across the project supply chain and hopes to drive innovation from industry directly into future software developments. Crossrail chief executive Andrew Wolstenholme said Bim has not been used at this scale...

What is BIM? Building Information Modelling (BIM) uses software to create a model of a building that reacts to change in the way that the real building would. It is designed to make an integrated and collaborative approach to construction possible. Where CAD depicts construction elements with lines that define a structure's geometry, BIM creates each element of the structure...