Dive summary:
- Instead of someone – or lots of "someones" – having to input data collected in spreadsheets during construction, a new application developed by StratusVue allows contractors to input building data that owners will be given at completion.
- The application gives identification marks to each piece of data and then indexes those to building assets in the BIM file, and it is able to update files by synchronizing only new information rather than going through every file.
- One drawback of BIM has been that the last step is to input all the data about installed assets at the point where "everyone wants to go home."
From the article:
"BIM benefits the design phase through to the construction phase, but there's always been a gap [with the] handover to the owners." ...