24 August 2016

Extravagant planning goes into the designing and detailing of the infrastructure before it goes to the floor. Civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, fire-fighting, all these aspects need to be carefully drawn out and particularized and coordinated to have a flawless and feasible blueprint for construction. BIM Services have made this mammoth of a complex task much simplified. Offering an intelligent and collaborative platform, it enables effective coordination among all stake holders, thus, improving accuracy and ease in the deliverables across all the stages of construction – be it pre-construction, construction or post-construction.  
Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks, to name a few, are the software that facilitate BIM – Building Information Modeling. Interoperability is among the many features that are keys to successful and efficient collaboration in design and construction. There being multiple domains involved that are equally important in any infrastructure construction, a rightly oriented workflow is very essential to improve the design, building and managing process. BIM – Building Information Modeling makes certain to a supreme extent an accurate flow of information that is prime for complex projects. This is largely supported by software interoperability. Synchronizing Architecture, Structure and MEP services becomes uncomplicated. Data can be shared and coordinated comfortably across all these systems, each being developed on different media of software. All developers, software companies are seeking to further this feature of interoperability to boost up precision and speed and comfort in the information flow and exchange, thereby enhancing quality and pace of the services.

Without interoperability, the data is tied down to one application. Dependency on a single vendor increases. For data to flow across freely among different applications, interoperability is a must. Seamless collaboration among different teams using tools they prefer is achievable through this. We now have securely integrated MEP BIM Services supported by majority tools that are interoperable.