BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Designers, Engineers, Contractors, and Facility Managers

Understand the latest advances in BIM with this fully updated guide

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become an increasingly central component of architecture and the building trades. Modern BIM software has moved beyond the simple 2D and 3D modeling tools of the past to incorporate simulation, analysis, project management, and more. BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Designers, Engineers, Contractors, and Facility Managers has long served as the essential introduction to this subject and its ever-expanding applications. Now fully updated to reflect the increasing standardization of BIM practices and its cutting-edge industry frameworks, the latest edition of this key text remains the fundamental tool for understanding the backbone of innovation in construction technology.

Readers of the fourth edition of BIM Handbook will also find:

• Expanded treatment of the owner’s perspective in BIM and BIM integration
• Detailed discussion of new industry-specific frameworks such as ISO 19650
• Exploration of the relationship between BIM and digital twins for construction, operations, and maintenance

BIM Handbook is ideal for any professionals in the building trades, including owners and operators of buildings, architects, engineers, contractors, fabricators, developers of BIM software, and more.

Rafael Sacks is Professor of Construction Management in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Technion ― Israel Institute of Technology, and Head of the National Building Research Institute. He has taught BIM extensively at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and is the founder and leader of the BIM and Virtual Construction Laboratory at the Technion.

Ghang Lee is Professor and Director of the Building Informatics Group (BIG) in the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.

Luciana Burdi is Chief Infrastructure Officer for the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport). She has been a pioneering figure in the integration and implemen­tation of BIM within the public sector in the USA. Since 2004 she has strategically guided multiple organizations through the complexities of BIM adoption and advocated for the transformative potential of Digital Technologies in the design and construction of major public MegaProjects. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester MA, USA.

Marzia Bolpagni is Associate Director and Head of BIM International at Mace in London, UK. She is also Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and Honorary Associate Professor at University College London, The Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, UK.