1 min readROI on BIM: Where is the Evidence for Architects and Consultants?

In Part 1 and Part 2 of our series on Return on Investment (ROI) and BIM, we reviewed the success of large scale institutional owners and stakeholders, contractors and sub-contractors and how BIM is creating metrics that demonstrate savings achieved on many projects. In our third and final instalment we look specifically at the Architects and Consultants and how immersed we need to be in BIM in the longer term to get a return on our investment.

We know that BIM and the technologies supporting it allow all of the supply chain to benefit from the information and provide known quantities and costs at all stages from developed design to tender.

More than ever, BIM’s collaborative nature provides the greatest opportunities for design and construction teams to innovate and instigate process improvements that can resonate quickly across project teams. Industry reports including SmartMarket demonstrate strong engagement in BIM from architectural and consultancy firms and suggests a stronger, faster take up in the short term including improving their team’s understanding of BIM to a high competency level.

Design and consultancy firms adopting BIM and its associated technologies wholesale are now creating the points of difference in the market and realising the savings internally through…