ABSTRACT
Building Information Modeling (BIM) and 4.0 represent the hottest topics in construction and Industry. BIM is a process to create and manage all of the information on a project across the infrastructure lifecycle. The output of this process is a digital model that contains all the information of the infrastructure. 4.0 is a term used to refer to the developmental project in the management of manufacturing and chain production. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and cognitive computing. But how can the explosive mixture of these two approaches generate a revolution and a successful result in the construction field? Our paper wants to focus on how the 4.0 interoperability and information transparency can support and provide information to the BIM process during construction and moreover during maintenance phase of the infrastructures. Furthermore, we illustrate some of the best practises on machines carrying out aspects of production on digitalized model where BIM represents a repository for machine output information. We show the related benefit for an intelligent supply chain in real time. The result will demonstrate how the fourth industrial revolution affects the construction world and why the BIM-4.0 strategy represents a time and cost efficiency, a unique opportunity.
