BIM (Building Information Modeling) is above all a working method, based on collaborative work. It offers stakeholders the opportunity to exchange around graphical elements (3D digital mock-up, 2D plans) and non-graphical information.
Whatever the size of the structure, BIM enables teams to gain in performance and efficiency: it durably increases the use value of buildings and infrastructures throughout their lifecycle.
What does BIM mean and what is its purpose?
Like most business sectors, the building industry has been moving resolutely towards digital technology for several years now.
BIM is an approach based on building data modeling, which enables a digital model to be collaboratively enriched with project information for the structure, both in design, construction and operation/maintenance. This representation of 3D objects and associated data, also known as a BIM model, gives access to all the information on a structure.
This digital representation makes it possible to meet the optimization and performance challenges of all those involved in the act of building (project owners, architects, project managers, contractors, operators, etc.) and for all types of building: housing, industrial, commercial, infrastructure, engineering structures, etc. CIM is BIM applied to the scale of neighborhoods and cities.
What are the benefits?
Among the many benefits brought by BIM, synthesis carried out in BIM is surely one of the most visible and the one with the most obvious return on investment (ROI). In fact, 3D, new tools and new methods make it possible to carry out synthesis missions (technical, enclosure and architectural) more precisely, more quickly and more efficiently. Pre-synthesis (design) and synthesis (construction) missions optimize the completion of structures and reduce non-quality costs.
Thanks to BIM, buildings and infrastructures perform better, can evolve according to their uses and environments, are more virtuous and even smarter in operation/maintenance.
BIM Life® from Equans Digital, the brand for BIM and CIM experts
To guarantee support for all or part of the construction lifecycle, Equans Digital has created the BIM Life® brand.
Performance, carbon neutrality and responsible progress are at the heart of this approach.
BIM Life® brings together the following entities: SXD Groupe, Dexip and Eurosia.
BIM Life® intervenes throughout a building's entire lifecycle, from design to deconstruction, via construction, operation-maintenance and possibly transformation to change its purpose! The aim is to manage a building from construction to deconstruction by:
- Increasing its energy performance
- Optimizing energy consumption
- Reinventing its working and living spaces
- Optimizing its overall cost
Our asset lifecycle offers
Organizing and making the BIM/CIM process more reliable
To support project owners and real estate managers in implementing and monitoring their BIM approach, on a project or asset scale.
Visualizing and coordinating the deployment of BIM/CIM
In the design phase, BIM pre-synthesis makes it possible to validate the feasibility of a project and carry out a technical study with reliable information.
Assuring and supervising the coherence of the entire project
BIM synthesis ensures optimized spatial coordination of all trades (architect, structural work, technical trades).
Coordinating design and construction teams
Since 2010, our BIM managers have been responsible for leading and coordinating design and construction teams, around digital mock-ups shared between them. Our BIM managers are the guarantors of compliance with the BIM agreement; they ensure the optimization of this model and are the catalysts for the success of the project throughout its duration.
Optimize the technical management and operation of structures
Digital twins are digital replicas of physical objects or systems; they provide fine-grained, real-time knowledge of them. Maintenance teams can increase their operational performance by using them to better operate and maintain the assets and properties for which they are responsible.
Our targeted offers
BIM Life® and CIM, the allies of the Smart City
At the scale of a neighborhood or city, with its CIM (City Information Modeling) approach, BIM Life® is able to collect, analyze and model all information, including that useful to building owners and tenants. This information can then be visualized on the digital BIM model.
This enables each building to evolve in line with its environment, while ensuring the comfort of its users and/or occupants.