Autodesk's board of directors met with Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, minister of the Ministry of Infrastructure, to discuss how the cutting-edge technology applied to civil works can be strategic for the resumption of the country's economic growth.
Brazil is preparing to adopt the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology as a prerequisite for contracting federal infrastructure works from 2021, in accordance with Decree No. 10,306, signed on April 2, 2020.
This methodology combines construction management technology and technical management and has been applied in several countries around the world, as mentioned by Roberto Mikse, president of Autodesk Latin America during the meeting.
To give you an idea, the UK government made the methodology mandatory in 2016 and, since then, it has saved 20% in construction costs, in addition to greater transparency and control over bidding and contracted works.
Sylvio Mode, president of Autodesk Brasil, pointed out that the company has been helping private institutions and municipal and state governments, in addition to some federal agencies, for a decade, in adopting the methodology as a way of ensuring a better level of efficiency and transparency in management of civil works.
Another important point addressed was that the BIM methodology allows a reduction of up to 20% in the costs of a construction, from the project to the post-construction maintenance, which is strategic, both in the elaboration of projects, as in the monitoring and inspection, and offers more transparency to the process.
Freitas pointed out that the Ministry of Infrastructure intends to be the engine of BIM in Brazil and that he has been an enthusiast of the methodology since the time he was executive director of the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT). For him, Brazil has a lot to gain by adopting the methodology.
The BIM decree will take place in stages at the federal level, the first being from 2021.
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