Benefits and Challenges of BIM in Construction

Abstract

This chapter covers the issues and benefits deriving from the introduction of digital processes and tools in enterprises in the building sector. A comparative analyzes is proposed between the current processes and the relevant information flows and the possibilities offered by the introduction of digital processes and tools. Starting from the different perspective given by the digital paradigm, the chapter analyzes how the increasing request for information and data and the need to produce information models that accompany the physical asset are changing the configuration of roles and relations between enterprises and the supply chain creating the need for new specialist management and collaboration structures (platforms) in the production phase. The second part of the chapter proposes a view on the possibilities offered by the introduction of machine learning systems for the management of information in enterprises. In particular, the potentialities of the current systems in organizing information and documents are analyzed for an improved management of the latter, both during the collection phase and with regard to the possibility to use the organization’s historical documents in order to define the analysis processes.