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engineers would need to move that beam, which changes the fire hazard potential of the area, and so on. The documentation of these dependencies is usable throughout the entire building project lifecycle, including planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of a building.
BIM provides a comprehensive system view that enables unprecedented opportunity to streamline building development.3 Cost estimation is automated by BIM tools based on current design choices. Cross-system optimization promotes green building design—as energy usage can be minimized—and improves quality, reliability and durability across the lifetime of the project. As a single source of information for all building plans, BIM eliminates the need to reconcile multiple conflicting models as changes are made in independent teams. BIM also provides an audit trail with built-in change management. Many permits, regulations and legal considerations can be automatically checked within the model and updated with each change. Critical emergency response information, including fire safety equipment, is logged in context of all other building features.
What is AR?
Augmented reality (AR) has been a topic of science fiction for decades. AR generally involves enhancing our perception of the world with a graphical overlay, like smart glasses or a heads-
BIM provides a comprehensive system view that enables unprecedented opportunity to streamline building development.
up display (HUD). Though many applications for AR are for entertainment, there are also numerous industrial applications for warehousing and construction. For example, research teams are exploring some applications of AR for warehouse operations.4 Since over half of all warehouse operations involve finding and picking packages, augmented reality can greatly speed up and reduce the cost of warehousing by enabling workers to visualize the exact location of packages.
Augmented reality directly complements BIM—the sheer amount of information stored about a building can be used to
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