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BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors | 
| Authors: Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, Kathleen Liston
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $85.00
Buy New: $68.00
You Save: $17.00 (20%)
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 49717
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 504
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0470185287
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.0285
EAN: 9780470185285
ASIN: 0470185287
Publication Date: March 3, 2008
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Product Description
Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a new approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built. BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners,Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. The Handbook: -
Introduces Building Information Modeling and the technologies that support it -
Reviews BIM and its related technologies, in particular parametric and object-oriented modeling, its potential benefits, its costs, and needed infrastructure -
Explains how designing, constructing, and operating buildings with BIM differs from pursuing the same activities in the traditional way using drawings, whether paper or electronic -
Discusses the present and future influences of BIM on regulatory agencies; legal practice associated with the building industry; and manufacturers of building products -
Presents a rich set of BIM case studies and describes various BIM tools and technologies -
Shows how specific disciplinesowners, designers, contractors, and fabricatorscan adopt and implement BIM in their companies -
Explores BIM's current and future impact on industry and society Painting a colorful and thorough picture of the state of the art in Building Information Modeling, the BIM Handbook guides readers to successful implementations, helping them to avoid needless frustration and costs and take full advantage of this paradigm-shifting approach to build better buildings, that consume fewer materials, and require less time, labor, and capital resources.
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| Customer Reviews:
 BIM Handbook September 8, 2008
A. Callas (Orange County, Ca)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent in how it encompasses BIM issues to various partners in the building process. It is considerably appropriate and relevant when considering the impact of BIM on the building industry and our personal business.
 Excellent guide for BIM techology September 3, 2008
Jovic Aleksandar
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a great resource for managers/executives who need to familiarize themselves with bim technology in order to successfully initiate implementation within a company. Benefits (and drawbacks) of technology for all groups mentioned in a title (developers, facility managers, designers, contractors)are covered in details.
Authors are very competent and they put lots of effort to prepare and organize this material (this is one of the best organized book I have ever read).
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Highly recommended.
Comprehensive resource on BIM technology September 2, 2008
Lachmi Khemlani (California, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The BIM Handbook is an extensively researched and meticulously written book, showing evidence of years of work rather than something that has been quickly put together in the course of a few months. It brings together most of the current information about BIM, its history, as well as its potential future in one convenient place and can serve as a handy reference book on BIM for anyone who is involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings and needs to know about the technologies that support it. It is the must-have text book for BIM for all academic institutions who would like to teach or research this subject. Some practitioners might find it a little intimidating, as it does get very detailed and technical, but those refuse to be daunted by its academic style will find their efforts very well rewarded with a deeper understanding of all aspects of BIM that are relevant to their work.
You can read a more detailed review of this book in my AEC technology publication, AECbytes: http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/BIMHandbook.html
A Must Have Book for Your Library July 13, 2008
Dana K. Smith (Washington, DC)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is clearly the most comprehensive book to date on the subject of building information modeling. It covers the entire spectrum and provides many comparative analyses of existing products, to help you make an educated choice of tools.
First Major Reference Work on BIM Technology April 29, 2008
Kristine K. Fallon (Chicago, IL USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
In the BIM Handbook (A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors), a remarkably knowledgeable and credential team of authors has provided a sound, thoroughly researched and comprehensible review of the technology, the market drivers and the business transformation issues surrounding Building Information Modeling (BIM). This book is a must-read for anyone involved in the design, construction or operation of buildings who needs to understand and apply effectively the emerging BIM tools and techniques. University professors of architecture, engineering and construction will find this an excellent text for introducing BIM to the emerging generation of design and construction professionals.
The concepts underlying BIM have been evolving for a quarter century, as the book makes clear. In the past few years, however, market drivers and technology advances have converged to produce software tools that have an extraordinary positive impact on the design and construction of buildings. In the industry scramble to take advantage of this potential, there has been much confusion about what BIM is, how to use it and who benefits from it. The BIM Handbook tackles all three questions.
Highlights include the chapter on the interoperability of building models, which clarifies what is probably the least understood technology issue related to BIM. Of immediate utility is the evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the major BIM software products. Even the most design-oriented readers will marvel at the variety and innovation demonstrated by the ten case studies. The very thoughtful chapter entitled "The Future: Building with BIM" provokes lively conjecture and debate.
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