Concrete Contractors: Reinforce Your Market Leadership with BIM
The concrete sector is becoming more competitive with each passing day.
Every little delay, from a missing detail to a rescheduled pour, has the potential to adversely impact client relationships and even push you out of the running for repeat work. The market is quickly restructuring itself around concrete contractors who can place concrete faster, collaborate with external stakeholders, improve site productivity, and reduce the scope of reworks.
This is why the future of concrete contractors is tied to the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
BIM for Concrete Contractors
Building Information Modeling utilizes highly accurate 3D models to help contractors prepare more practical and constructible designs, reducing rework, and allowing site productivity to skyrocket.
For example, document clarification creates the most amount of confusion on a job site. Not only do missing dimensions and details slow down the crew, but manual errors can also lead to massive wastages of time, money, and materials. With BIM, shop drawings are generated automatically from the 3D model only after all dimensions are approved and the model has undergone a thorough constructability review.
Additional Benefits
Using concrete lift drawings centered on an internal database, the software can automatically offer quantities of concrete required for each pour, manpower projection, and square footage of formwork.?
BIM helps concrete contractors collaborate effectively with external stakeholders by providing a single source of truth, improving information exchange, and making changes easy to adopt.
If the pour for a particular day needs to be changed due to weather or other factors, hand-drawings are remarkably hard to update. With BIM, lift drawings can be changed within just a few minutes and can be reissued to the field without any loss of productive work hours.