W2_Norbert Eze _Business Value of Building Information Modeling
By norberteze on November 13, 2012
I. PROBLEM RECOGNITION, DEFINITION AND EVALUATION
Who’s using BIM, and where are they getting the real business value? These are the two questions hear all the time. Like any innovation trying to gain traction, its actual business benefits are what will make it successful. And their impact on users’ bottom line is what will drive adoption. There are enough people now using BIM that we can start to answer these questions.
II. DEVELOPMENT OF FEASIBILITY ALTERNATIVES
The alternatives I am going to develop on:
· Who’s using BIM
· Who is not using BIM
III. DEVELOPMENT OF OUTCOMES FOR EACH ALTERNATIVE
By surveying thousands of AEC participants in North America from the full spectrum of roles and disciplines SmartMarket learned as indicated in the table below:
IV. SELECTION OF A CRITERION (OR CRITERIA)
Even as the design and construction industry confronts a down economy, most BIM users are seeing positive payback from their use of the technology, according to McGraw-Hill Construction research. Users gain bankable benefits that enhance productivity, improve their ability to integrate teams and give them an edge on the competition. The value from BIM grows as users gain experience, offering them an opportunity to reap greater returns even during an economic recession.
See table below for growth of in BIM use.
V. ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF THE ALTERNATIVES
Based on my survey, the analysis and comparison of the alternatives are shown below in snapshot below:
The benefit and business value of BIM in today’s design is over overwhelming
VI. CONCLUSION
BIM creates efficiencies. Users realize some of the greatest value of BIM through its potential to cut down on rework, such as rekeying information into models or making changes in the field. As users become more proficient, the opportunities to improve productivity are more pronounced.
References:
Building Information Modeling Trends SmartMarket Report. Retrived from
Purdue OWL APA style. (2011). APA formatting and style guide. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/19
Sorry Norbert....... Gotta reject this posting....
ReplyDeleteWhy? First of all, you didn't follow our step by step model. Somehow, you missed two steps along the way.
Secondly, where are your tables showing your calculations? Maybe you did a great job, but I have no way of telling based on what I can see.
And lastly, the specifications call for a MINIMUM of 3 references and you only provided two. And the two you provided are NOT in conformance to the APA formatting.
What I am expecting to see from you is coming from this page http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ and looks like this:
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume number, page range. Retrieved from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/
Do your citations look like this? If not, why not?
Bottom line, you need to fix the errors and repost as W3.1. But this time, PLEASE take the time to have someone who has gotten an AWESOME score from me do a quick quality check. I really hate to see you wasting time doing things twice when if you took just a few minutes to have someone check your work, you could avoid the embarrassment and hassle of having to do the work twice.
And as this is your second time around, you should know better.......
BR,
Dr. PDG, Dubai UAE heading back to Jakarta