ABSTRACT
The interest in using Building Information Models (BIM) as a central design and information management media in construction projects is rapidly increasing around the world. Examples of this phenomenon are several national efforts – such as National BIM Standard in USA (NBIMS 2008), buildingSMART in Norway (NO 2008), CRC Construction Innovation in Australia (CRC CI 2008) – and BIM requirements of owners and clients – such as GSA in USA (GSA 2008), Senate Properties in Finland (Senate 2007), Statsbygg in Norway (Statsbygg 2007) – or even legal requirements to deliver BIM in public projects which are implemented in Denmark (DK 2008). In addition, several private companies have more or less successfully started to deploy BIM in their internal processes and supply chains.
