Preface

Building Information Modelling, since it was first coined as BIM, has been increasingly acknowledged and accepted all over the world. It now comes to its tipping point for wider and deeper industry practice, therefore, many key practical implementation problems have been spotted and in turn further triggered new research directions. There is a strong need both from BIM industry and academia to be fully aware of the state-of-the-art developments, by doing that successfully, it certainly can further leverage the knowledge from both sides, and eventually could further increase the productivity, performance and efficiency in construction industry.

This edited book intends to leverage the wider BIM knowledge all over the world, both from BIM industry and academia, to provide a comprehensive BIM research and industry implementation picture and future developing roadmap. In this book, there is a team of BIM specialists in UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan who have reported many integrated BIM solutions and future trends of BIM are discussed to create a holistic road map for BIM future.

The editors would like to thank all the authors for their contribution for the publication of:

Integrated Building Information Modelling.

Your commitment and effort in this publication deserves our greatest appreciation.