Hospital Projects Highlight Local Adoption of BIM

NORTH BAY — In less than a decade, building information modeling (BIM) has become a major construction simulation and visualization process, and it’s being employed heavily on large hospital projects now under construction in North Bay counties. Today a growing number of North Bay architects, engineers and contractors — commonly referred to as the AEC community — are using BIM when designing new buildings and infrastructure projects.

Those companies and firms say benefits of this advanced 3-D digital design technique are many, resulting in dramatic cost and time savings and positive return on investment, better designs, improved quality of the final product, enhanced project scheduling, more accurate documentation and efficient contractor collaboration...