BIM guide should make real estate cheaper by at least 15%

The Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) is responsible for the development of the BIM Guide, in Portuguese, Building Information Modeling. The use of this system can reduce works by up to at least 15% in relation to the total cost and 20% the costs of inputs. In practice, it is a planning tool that uses a virtual model in three dimensions to facilitate the builder's visualization, to know exactly where the doors and windows will be, for example, ending the custom of building a wall and then breaking it to pass. wires, or fit stops.
 
To follow this system that large construction companies already have access to, it is necessary to create an image bank of everything needed in a building, such as doors, windows, plumbing. ABDI's focus is to make this guide available with all construction items, cataloged for free, so that all construction companies have access, making small companies in the sector more competitive, thus being able to increase competition.
 
“The Agency's challenge is to seek solutions for the civil construction sector, making the guide's library more and more complete, but for this, it is necessary to raise awareness, especially of material suppliers, who have to provide all technical information about raw materials and supplies used in a work. We are entering a new stage, which is the digitization of the economy”, says Guto Ferreira, president of ABDI.
 
In order to observe the benefits of BIM, and the savings that can be achieved with its use, the Federal Government since last year created the strategic committee for the implementation of BIM (CE-BIM). This year there will be a strong campaign for companies in the sector to adopt the system. It is projected that if half of the companies start to implement it, the construction economy will increase by 7%, which means an increase of 21.9 billion in the sector's GDP. “Among the benefits, even in the planning stage it is possible to prevent errors and correct inconsistencies in the project, thus reducing construction time, with eventual errors that could appear at the construction site”, Ferreira.