ABSTRACT
Recent advancements in technology across various sectors, particularly in infrastructure development and underground construction, are critical for early-stage structural behavior prediction and design adaptation. Building Information Modeling (BIM) has emerged as a pivotal technology that digitally represents the actual facility of a structure. This innovative approach enhances the management of building processes and ongoing operations. However, implementing BIM for underground structures presents unique challenges and necessitates expertise in geotechnical engineering. This paper mainly presents the need for BIM in geotechnical applications and the major challenges to be accounted for especially in countries like India. The paper provides an overview of BIM principles, geotechnical BIM components, benefits and difficulties in implementing BIM in geotechnical engineering. The paper also provides an overview of the existing case studies on implementing geotechnical BIM and the corresponding inferences in detail. As part of the study, a case study on BIM modelling of urban excavation in south India also carried out and presented in this paper. KEYWORDS: Building Information Modelling (BIM), Geotechnical Engineering, 3-Dimensional (3D), Digital data, subsurface profile.
