Dodge Data & Analytics’ new SmartReport shows that BIM use is becoming increasingly popular among companies in the water industry. (Image courtesy of Dodge Data & Analytics.)
In a recent report, Dodge Data & Analytics found that the water industry is increasing its implementation of building information modeling (BIM). These results provide a vast contrast from the firm’s 2012 report, which showed that the water industry had been slower than other industry sectors to implement BIM in its projects.
Published on May 2, The Business Value of BIM for Water Projects SmartReport surveyed 74 companies, and was an implementation rather than an adoption study, meaning that it looked solely at companies that had previously used BIM. As a result, the study didn’t make any comparison to companies that had not yet adopted the technology. The report includes almost 35 pages of data analysis, five case studies of major companies using BIM, and some final thoughts from major industry players.
One of the study’s more interesting findings, according to author Donna Laquidara-Carr, is that unlike other infrastructure industries in the U.S., the water industry uses BIM more during the operational phase of business. Of those responding to the survey, 86 percent said that their BIM models are integrated with either asset management or operations and maintenance once the building phase is completed, meaning that BIM use is more lasting and long term. “For such a young…