The Most Promising BIM Service Provider To Watch-2022

Editor’s Note

THE EMERGING CATALYSTS OF THE BUILDING INDUSTRY

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Building and construction industry which has several

huge projects spreading across vast spaces, involves many skilled teams, meticulous planning, proper documentation, monitoring, control, and implementation. The scope and the scalability of large projects need precise and errorless working with prompt planning to ensure timely execution with optimum resource, material, effort, and fund utilization.

The technological developments in the recent few years have boosted the construction industry with the BIMBuilding and Information Modelling Systems that have systematically automated the entire process from the planning, and design, to the completion of the construction process. The BIM service providers have swept the construction industry by increasing the efficacy of

construction projects from initial designs till completion. It has empowered the realtors to manage the work data, seamless information management, minimize errors, optimize operational efficiency, enhance departmental coordination, and accelerate the bulk efficiency of the entire project.

The recent surveys have revealed impressive findings of the BIM systems empowering the construction industry through a 60% cost reduction in the project costs through a reduction in material, logistics, and resource wastage, speeding up the project deliveries by 50% and optimizing the efforts that helped in adding to the project profitability.

To identify and recognize the phenomenal contribution of the BIM service providers in maximizing the projected

efficacy, we have brought our latest edition ‘The Most Promising BIM Service Providers to Watch -2022’ which covers their phenomenal contributions in greater depths that reveal many interesting facets of the advanced technological domain.

Every profile opens a different inspiration through its methodology. To explore more about these efficiency accelerators, read on.

Have an engaging and mindful experience.

Cover Story

Featuring Brief Company

Design BIM Studio is one of its kind studio in India where project is delivered in BIM from concept stage to construction and upto facility management stage. It also offers BIM consultancy services, BIM training and BIM implementation assignments.

GES headquartered in Vadodara, India is a leading engineering design and consultancy services company with commitment to client, quality design and technological innovation. From our local beginnings over 12 years ago to our vast international and domestic presence today, GES has enjoyed continuous growth and enrichment of its service offering.

Hitech is an integrated engineering consulting and business process solutions organization specializing in process improvement and optimization.

Ideas 4 Transformation

Ideas 4 Transformation offers services in consulting, development, implementation and quality assurance in the numerous domains including Malls, Retail, Warehouses, Smartbuildings and QSR.

Hitech Digital Solutions

Design BIM Studio Geometric Engineering Services (GES)

Bhushan Avsatthi, Director

Ar Viral Bhatt, Principal Architect and Director Jigar Kothari, Director of Design

Rajesh

Saboo, Founder and CEO

Our focus has been to solve the problems of large retail businesses that have got pan-India presence and be part of their Transformation journey.

Mr Rajesh Saboo is a firm believer in simplicity and speed in all spheres of life and is an eternal optimist.

Although online and digital consumerism is a popular trend now, that does not mean people do not go shopping, dining, and partying physically. Also, there is no denying that digital consumerism provides the utmost comfort, ease, and convenience apart from safety and security; what it lacks are a physical experience and a personal feel . This is where the retail network of shopping malls, retail chains, restaurants, etc., comes into play.

These ambient, happening, and vibrant places guarantee customers a seamless, comfortable physical experience with a smooth and convenient personal appeal. Before the inception of ideas 4 Transformation (i4T) – a trusted technology Services and Solutions partner –all these retail brands, chains,

network stores, restaurants, shopping malls, hypermarkets, etc., have had no substantial methods of receiving tailormade IT support models.

Brands were also unable to evaluate the usage of their network stores, nor they had any way to review whether the store was offering the right mix that is attractive to the local demographics.

Many large retail business brands have considered various retail tech solutions to ensure that no resources are wasted and no opportunities are missed, but with the advent of i4T six years back—ultimately—these brands, Burger King, Metro Brands, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Dominos, Subway, Tim Hortons, YUM, Shoppers Stop, Barbeque Nation, Absolute Barbeque, Haldiram’s,

Crosswords, Vishal Mega Mart, and many more, chose i4T’s as their preferred choice for Smart Retail Solutions like People Counting, Video Analytics, Mobility and for IT Management/Infrastructure Services, and all the myriad of futuristic solutions due to the multitude of features a single platform includes.

At the helm of i4T is Mr Rajesh Saboo , its Founder and CEO , who shares, “ Our focus has been to provide solutions for the large retail businesses that have got pan-India presence .”

A Futuristic Leadership Acumen—

Rajesh is an industry veteran and has been influencing Business Transformation, Innovative Technology Solutions adoption, and Change Management agents in leading corporate houses like Future Group, Raymond Limited, Ashok Piramal Group, Aditya Birla Group and Wadia Group .

Rajesh says, “ I spent almost 28 years in the corporate working with these big companies and organizations. Out of my total experience last 20 years, I was in leadership positions and was part of transformation initiatives of Future Group, Raymond Ltd etc .”

Before starting i4T, Rajesh was part of the Senior Management Team of Future Group, working as Sr. Vice President – of IT Services, responsible for the Technology and Communication needs of the entire group for Retail and Supply Chain. He was also part of the leadership team of a strategic way forward.

He has an enriching 34+ years of the overall experience, out of which 28 years of Industry exposure in Information Technology, Retail, Manufacturing, Supply Chain,

Logistics and Business Services and almost now six years as a successful leader of i4T.

Rajesh mentions, “ During my time with the corporate while speaking with biggest vendors; I realized that although these vendors have more margins, there was a visibly vast disconnect between what they were selling and what the buyers actually demanded .”

Rajesh informs, “ So, I thought using my huge experience to address this disconnect. I must form a versatile technology Solutions and Services organization that specializes in domains such as retail, malls, warehouses, QSR, and smart buildings .”

Established around these core areas of expertise, i4T’s portfolio of services includes Consulting, Software development and implementation, and IT Managed Services, Technical Service Desk, IT Program Management, etc. Each service i4T provide is unique because it is

customized and optimized perfectly to target solution to initiate, implement and expedite business needs to reality.

Rajesh adds , “Our business philosophy is molded by the belief that in today’s dynamic and ever-evolving world, a simple combination of services cannot possibly satisfy your business’s unique needs. We differentiate ourselves by ensuring that our combinations of services result in cutting-edge solutions that contribute towards helping your business needs and creating sustainable businesses.”

Rajesh has won many industry awards and accolades for Transformation initiatives leading to Business transformation, cost optimization, business operation effectiveness and technology innovation from independent houses like IDG, IDC and CORE He is a firm believer in simplicity and speed in all spheres of life and is an eternal optimist.

Eternal Optimism of Speed and Simplicity

Presently, i4T offers Services and Solutions to 5,000 different large and medium retail businesses across 300+ cities.

Recollecting their initial days, Rajesh shares that they began their journey in a 1BHK office situated in a small residential complex of Thane, with a team who used to do everything multitasking from operations, finance, MIS, and customer care, to HR, IT, and admin just like a startup.

“ One thing which I was very sure as I continue to cherish is to build an i4T brand with a strong recall value for the customers with its key USPs of speed and simplicity ,” with speed Rajesh means that anything they do, they want to do it in a much shorter time than probably what other vendors or service providers could do it.

“ At the same time, there is a strong belief in our organization that every problem has a simple solution ,” says Rajesh adding that when you do not

understand a problem properly, you try solving it in a complicated fashion. At any point in time, none of the customers would accept it. Even if the management buys your complicated solution, it will fail in the implementation because end-users are not that technical or tech-savvy.

“This USP of simplicity is what we believe in, which I strongly followed when I was a part of the Future Group and Mr Kishor Biyani, my mentor, always talked about these two things. And this is how we're doing it, and it has been helping us to create a differentiator for our organization with all our customers purchasing from us,” reveals Rajesh.

When a typical IT Managed Services transitions from one vendor to another, a big vendor generally used to take 90

days for transition, so the customer has to pay an additional cost for 90 days because they have to register with the new vendor while discontinuing the current vendor.

“However, we take pride in some of the biggest transitions to the tune of 500 stores, 800 stores in less than 45 days. Our standard transition time is 30 days, and most of the time, we try not to charge our customer or even if we do, it is a very nominal change, and this is our commitment,” says Rajesh , adding that they have a firm belief in their PMO–Project/Program Management Office–consisting of Program Managers, Business Analyst, Technical team–a team which is eyes and ears of the organization.

A Benchmark of Visibility and Transparency

Rajesh says , “They create visibility of what we do to the customers in a very transparent level, and then they insist and answer the customers’ calls daily. And on a monthly and quarterly basis, they give proper tech presentations and ensure i4T creates a journey of transformation with our customers. Our objective is not to increase the monetary value of our contract, but to add value to our contract with what we've done.”

For example, if it would take ten people to give a contract X value, maybe ten people can do more services in the same contract value with a limited increase in cost. So, per resource cost will come down. Rajesh explains , “If 100 stores are giving 100 rupees, then additional ten stores can add two rupees to our contract.” So, i4T is taking an increased number of stores of 10% percent in addition to the cost of 2% of its contract value for the customers.

He feels , “That is our belief to never run after the customer and have lots of customers. We believe that we will have fewer customers but happy customers and try to give them multiple services/Solutions under one umbrella like IT Managed Services, New store opening services and Remote Support Services (Technical Services Desk) from the backend, Projects: Application Migration and Asset Management. etc., so the customer’s management cost comes down. That way, multiple services to lesser customers, to add more value.”

A Smart Evolution in Retail Management

Presently, i4T has its own presence in 70+ cities supporting in 300 plus cities. i4T steadily has built a happy customer base. Instead of offering solutions like traditional players, i4T offers a techintegrated platform which offers personalized, specialized solutions to its clients with retail store chains

spread over the country. Every client has its own dashboard integrated with people counter, billing counter, videoanalytics tools, and AI-ML integrated solutions so that the retail businesses will have a clear picture of their endusers and can serve them more efficiently in the future.

Rajesh elaborates , “We have brought a smart evolution in retail management like we offer solutions per the customer’s needs and budget. Suppose a retail business has 500 stores with a fixed cost per store, so we offer a solution spread across these 500 stores and then pinpoint regularly stores with a higher number of issues and bring in visibility. This guides our customers on their re-modelling structure like for their payment, what kind of services they are getting, etc.”

In terms of modern technology adoption, Rajesh gives various examples of i4T’s video analytics solution in which CCTV footage, algorithmic data, and high-resolution

Our further focus is to create a Tech-based IT Service model for businesses like OLA and Uber.

data are collected, analyzed, and compared to provide a clearer picture to restaurants, retail businesses, and billing counters.

“We don’t develop AI and ML integrated solutions, rather; we have created a strong partner ecosystem with FootfallCam™, Magic Mirror, AIRSEC™, Posi Flex, AI company and many other technology partners to address and achieve the KPIs. Thanks to our tech-integrated platforms, we are working on cutting-edge technologies to create our differentiator,” says Rajesh adding, “They are also creating a democratic culture for their employees, workforce, CXO community, and partners, where people are their focus.”

Turning Challenges into Opportunities

When probed about challenges, Rajesh says that challenges are opportunities for him and his team. Thus, if constant workforce churn could be an issue for other companies, he believes once an employee has spent considerable time in i4T, instead of paying them a huge amount of salaries which will affect their own operational cost, they prefer the person leaving so that they will get the opportunity to

hire fresh talent and ensure the cost of services are also managed. However, we ensure that a proper balance of experience, trained and fresh talent is maintained; we have tied up with some technical institutes for our resourcing needs and continue our focus on workforce training in terms of technology and customer service.

Another challenge is saying no to some earlier peer group members for onboarding them as customers because as a retail solution provider i4T concentrates more on fewer players rather than having too many clients. This is nice problem to have but to be dealt with very carefully without offending; that’s a challenge because, with the exposure to the CXO Group in my previous tenure, I need to keep everybody happy but at the same time don’t serve everyone and spoil the quality of services.

“We are typical not vendors who will come and sell what they want to sell. We try to understand the problem of CXO community. That's our aim which we are trying to achieve,” expresses Rajesh .

Fostering A Network of Champions

Being an experienced leader, Rajesh says there is a huge gap between the Business/users’ expectations and what is provided in the IT products service industry. Only coming of freshers with fancy college degrees from IITs and IIMs and starting their startups, out of which most of them go out of business in five to ten years, is not sustainable. Instead coming of mature people with 10-20 years of experience and expertise behind them, giving the best quality service is the need of the hour.

Further, there is a need to create a common platform for like-minded Retail IT industry veterans who want to provide the right products, solutions and quality services to Mid and largesize PAN India retail businesses.

Thus, Rajesh’s advice for the budding aspirants is, along with solving smaller issues and problems and giving solutions to many, they must concentrate on creating an ecosystem which will integrate multifunction solutions and bring everybody on a broad single platform. It’s a dream and desire to be fulfilled.

i4T’s Pan-India Web of Partners

Presently, i4T supports 5,000 different sorts of retail businesses across 300+ cities. And it has its engineers in 70odd cities who are 100% on the company’s payroll, so they enjoy all the benefits as regular employees. Rajesh conveys , “We don't believe in having an outsourcing model that we tie up with some franchisees, small

partners locally. Wherever we find the right talent, we engage with them directly; then we hire them; we train them technically. We have a proper mechanism of managing and monitoring them.”

That's how Rajesh and his Leadership team are building the organization, and their focus is to increase their footprint all over India, reaching tier 3 and tier 4 towns this year; they want to expand their support to 11,000 plus retail stores. From 300 plus employee, they want to expand to 500 by December.22.

i4T vision of 11000 Stores, 1100 Cities and 1100 Team members with 11 Support offices is the key focus in a couple of years.

Creating a Robust Back-End Support System

To provide services to 11K+ stores, there needed a strong back-end ecosystem created by i4T in the form of a fully functional 24×7×365 Technical Service Desks network. And Rajesh wants to expand this network of Remote Managed Service businesses with high availability form multiple cities currently operational in Delhi and Bengaluru. According to Rajesh, this is a significant change for two primary reasons: The first one is costeffectiveness and the second one is the speed of Support.

“ Both will complement each other to have a better experience and faster resolutions for their problems ,” says Rajesh giving the example of the feeling ten years ago when people felt that due to the coming of online retail businesses and eCommerce players, physical stores would go out of fashion. However, today, all eCommerce players have their online and offline stores. In the same way,

Rajesh says that Remote Support Services and physical Field Support Care can both complement each other to give better satisfaction to the customer.

Ensuring a Data-Driven Future

“Our next big focus is to create the technical support ecosystem making it more effective. Another thing is that today we have abundant retail data with us. We know what is happening across pan-India, across various formats, restaurants, retail businesses, etc. I want to create an ecosystem where we will have insights about this data and start focusing on what’s next for the industry,” states Rajesh . Currently, most people go for these paid services; they do some research, send some people who collect some sample data, then they extrapolate that data, analysis, and then they come to trends, what is going to happen.

Rajesh’s take on this is to use whatever data, analysis, and insights available and help the industry in its working to have more data-driven decisions rather than one-time data-based decisions. E.g., understanding demographics and customer segmentation to decide where should a restaurant location be situated that would drive revenue for it.

“Data-driven decision making is an offshoot of this business, which is I am doing, that we will want to focus on.

Our further focus is to create a techbased service model for businesses like OLA, Ubers, book and pay services.

Also, we want to reach the aspiring population of India, which is in smaller cities and towns,” concludes Rajesh

How the BIM is shaping up the Modern Real Estate Horizons

Unknown to many the construction industry is subject to numerous challenges. The industry has a

dearth of a rightly-skilled workforce, a sluggish pace, and complexities with collaboration in project management. The technological advancements that have emerged in streamlining the entire business model of the real estate industry and have greatly contributed to in addressing the toughest of the challenges. One of these transforming technologies is Building Information Modelling (BIM).

The latest technology of BIM is a comprehensive process of 3D modelling that offers professionals of the construction industry with data management, operational insights and smart tools to draft, plan, design, organize, monitor and construct their projects. Crediting the BIM methodology, all responsible people on a project including the partners— can easily collaborate and witness the operational status throughout all the stages of a project lifecycle. By using the BIM system, building organizations have access to a highly detailed digital representation of their projects.

The BIM structure includes numerous key insights going far beyond 3D visual architecture. As we look deeper into the BIM anatomy, real estate professionals can use BIM to see how the materials will endure time-based challenges, then in the cost estimation process and also help in performance prediction. The technology ensures all information is processed in a centralized framework and updated in real-time, as a

result offering easy access to reliable data. Building industry professionals can synchronize BIM with other technologies to further amplify its efficacy and its direct benefits to the construction process. The other technologies which are seamlessly amalgamated with BIM are Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), 3D printing, Augmented Reality(AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Robotics, etc.

High-Quality Structures

The advantage of BIM in pairing with other technologies like AR/VR offer the ability to easily test the structural design. It aids with spatial planning, verifying indoor lighting designs, validating emergency routing, etc. In this way, BIM showcases an additional feature of verification enabling the project owners to ensure the quality of the project. The VR feature offers the beautiful feature of providing walk-through presentations contributing project image upliftment. For example, Hegias developed its smart VR content management systems that enable building companies, real estate developers and architects in developing virtual property presentations for client presentations.

Enhanced Client Satisfaction

Customers these days are looking for different, unique and new aspects in the properties they are searching. The BIM system offers amazing visual presentations and supporting features that equip the construction professionals in providing dynamic virtual tours, dynamic presentations and interactive elements that engage the customers seamlessly through the virtual assisting system. All these elevate the project perception in the customer’s mind and begin the brand loyalty process from there itself. The internal assisting system helps the sales and service teams in customer management through data compilation, processing and management, lead management, follow-up tools and many more features that help them in harnessing client satisfaction.

Risk Mitigation through Reduced Costs

Recent industry surveys have revealed that construction industry professionals have benefited to the tune of 60% through BIM applications. Cost ascertainment has been complex, time-taking and the error-prone area has been enhanced with the BIM system. The BIM has helped in optimizing the process, and the close-knit integration has enabled updating the price modifications, and design

changes directly into the project budget. The cost prediction is more accurate helping the planners and leaders in better project planning and cost estimation. BIM has contributed to minimizing the expenses and also reducing the unwanted waste generation on the site.

Rapid Project Delivery

One research revealed that the implementation of BIM has accelerated the construction process and fastened the delivery process by approximately 50% of the time frame.

Now a clear fact is that the BIM system seamlessly automates several aspects of the design process saving time and offering enhanced results further. The system evaluates the work process and detects possible errors or clashes in operations due to various coinciding decisions taken on separate levels and different time stages. This helps in eliminating the possible delay caused in rectification, reworking and reorganizing the already scheduled resources that are huge in their volumes and impact.

Better Sustainability

The objectives of Green Buildings, planning and implementing eco-friendly measures, can be easily seamlessly and swiftly expedited through the BIM applications. The system develops the planning order in such a manner that all the stages include the Green Building aspects properly integrated without affecting the process, cost or other operational factors. The project statistics and analysis portray useful value-based details in defining the Green Compliance of the project. The integrated analysis and validation tools provide and define the material and efforts in reducing the carbon impact through the entire construction process.

Progressing Towards Dynamic Developments

The construction industry is now getting organized through modern technological advancements like BIM applications. However, a lot of awareness and process training is required for its effective implementation and development of important BIM professionals who can boost the construction segment further in developing meaningful and feasible projects. It certainly has developed a major foundation for efficient and profitable real estate ventures.

- Kedar Borgaonkar

Mr Jigar Kothari Director of Design Geometric Engineering Services (GES)

Geometric Engineering Services

For a Virtual Future of Sustainably Progressive Society

Modernization has brought our ship of civilization

into a future where we are entering the next phase of technological revolution called virtual reality and extended reality, transforming everything physical first into digital, and then into the visual realm, through the shifting dynamics of time's oceanic currents such as industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and digitalization.

This virtualization has not only created new industries and transformed many existing ones, but it has also revamped traditionally rigid industries such as architecture, real estate, infrastructure, manufacturing, and engineering.

In these ever-changing streams of the disruptive technological matrix, almost all businesses, companies, sectors, and industries find it exceedingly difficult to adopt novel technologies while integrating them into their core business processes, functioning and streamlining their operational workflows unless thoroughly guided by Geometric Engineering Services ( GES ).

Headquartered in Vadodara, India, and passionately driven by Mr Jigar Kothari , the Director of Design , GES is a leading engineering design, consultancy, and services company with a commitment to client, quality design, and technological innovation.

Creating New Milestones

From its local beginnings over 12 years ago to its vast international and domestic presence today, GES has enjoyed continuous growth and enrichment of its service offering. “ Every milestone reached has enabled us to better fulfill our purpose of preparing our communities and environment for the future ,” says Jigar, who is a seasoned professional with over 12 years in the field, bringing to the team a wealth of diverse international and domestic project experience.

Jigar’s dozen years of experience enable him to focus on Project Management and design of HVAC, BIM, Plumbing, and Fire protection systems. His design experience includes Automobile Plants, Pharmaceutical plants cleanroom design, commercial facilities, various industrial plants, and commercial and green buildings.

The vast range of skills and specialist knowledge found among together with the experience of local, national, and international projects, means can offer clients technical solutions tailored to local conditions that are one step ahead, boost their competitive edge, and are fully compliant with international standards.

A Functioning-Focused Leadership

Today, GES serves a diverse client base across a variety of market sectors. The firm distinguishes itself as an operations-focused practice with experienced management leadership, expert technical resources, and an extensive portfolio of projects.

GES is a full-service firm with the ability to lead complex projects at every stage — from process planning and design to construction. The firm’s clients benefit from in-depth regional knowledge combined with deep experience in design standards, international best practices, innovation, and cutting edge, in-house technology.

Jigar states, “ We aim to improve the value of the services we provide, creating a closer partnership with our customers and sharing tailored solutions according to their needs that perform under all conditions to ensure the best possible match for client needs at the lowest life cycle costs .”

Key Markets Served by GES include, Ÿ Automotive Ÿ Aviation

Commercial

Education

Energy

Food

Government / Institutional

Healthcare

And the primary services offered are

Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing

Fire Protection, Fire alarm, and Security System Design

BIM Modelling

Energy Modelling

GES - Building Information Modelling (BIM): “ We are pioneers in implementing Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction in the design process. We strive to optimize the considerable potential of these developing technologies as enables of collaborative, efficient and effective building and infrastructure design ,” says Jigar.

Expert BIM services

As an organization, it has the capability to provide expert BIM services in architecture, structural and MEPF services. Jigar adds that their BIM team is highly qualified, delivers best practices, and is active in the sector, positively influencing the advancement and uptake of BIM processes and solutions. Their client’s BIM projects are mostly located in India as well as internationally.

They include major manufacturing, commercial, residential, hotels, education, and healthcare meeting a variety of BIM needs.

GES's professional team of BIM experts and technicians is experienced in providing a range of BIM services for multiple types of BIM projects to match a variety of service needs based on the specific sector that you need assistance with.

Their investment in optimal BIM solutions, such as Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Navisworks, and skilled human resources, enables them to engineer highly complex building systems confidently, sustainably, and efficiently mitigate risk, improve quality, reduce waste and facilitate project coordination and collaboration, cost estimation and logistic planning.

The BIM team works closely with its other engineering service teams to assist in delivering MEP BIM services to meet the following core needs.

Making Well-Informed Decisions, Faster

BIM enables constant information exchange among architects, engineers, specialists, developers, contractors, and other parties. It helps teams to make well-informed decisions faster, thereby achieving more effective and efficient design than if BIM had not been used.

Jigar reveals, “ Our use of BIM helps owners make decisions earlier in the design phase of the project. This allows, for example, the MEP engineer to right-size the equipment .”

BIM can also be used for clash detection and to eliminate spatial conflicts, such as areas where the electrical and HVAC designs call for equipment to occupy the same space.

Faster Response to Design Changes

Through the time efficiencies achieved with BIM, we can reduce energy use and cost. BIM helps reduce material waste during construction and building management, and it can eventually assist in sustainable demolition. Energy modelling using BIM can also minimize energy consumption over a building’s life.

BIM is Green

Through the time efficiencies achieved with BIM, we can reduce energy use and cost. BIM helps reduce material waste during construction and building management, and it can eventually assist in sustainable demolition. Energy modelling using BIM can also minimize energy consumption over a building’s life.

Jigar shares, “ We provide BIM Consulting and Engineering including BIM modelling and clash resolution .”

Benefits offered:

Interferences are resolved before the model goes for construction.

Reduces construction time.

Higher quality.

Sustainable design.

GES’s BIM and VDC services and deliverables include:

Parametric Revit Family Creation

Building Information Modelling

2D /3D Modelling for Design Support

Design Validation/Review

Multi-Disciplinary Collaborative Work Processes

Simulation and Performance Analyses

Energy Modelling and Analysis

VDC and Risk Analysis Integration

Comprehensive Qualities of BIM leaders in the Modern Building and Construction World.

Technological advancements have transformed

numerous industrial sectors by revamping the complete process thereby boosting efficiency, saving time, cost, and effort, and maximizing the scalability of the operational process. Similarly, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been one of the prominent aspects in the transformation of the construction and real estate industry.

The BIM has brought about a huge positive transformation, making the typical construction processes adept, controlled, and extremely efficient.

Looking into the complexities, variable working conditions and frequently changing parameters, the BIM system brings all the processes into one single centralized loop thereby offering excellent control over the operations and maximizing work efficiency. The developers will now identify the logical time required in the process and extract accurate projections for the project timelines.

The construction industry has been boosted by the solid support of the BIM service providers enabling them in leaping ahead in successful project management.

Let’s look into some of the interesting qualities of the BIM leaders who have been instrumental in driving impressive change in project planning, execution, and analysis.

Excellent Subject Knowhow

Regarded as one of the primary qualities, a leader needs to have an in-depth knowledge of the BIM functioning with around five years of rich BIM project management

Inspiring Traits

experience. The leader should be adept with the latest software technologies, the ability to upgrade to the latest versions, and the research-based approach required. Sound knowledge of feature-rich software including Tekla, Navisworks, ArchiCAD, Revit, AutoCAD, etc. They should be quick in understanding and implementing design changes in structural and/or architectural designs and changes in MEP (Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing) calculations.

Training and Coaching Potential

The process of implementation of BIM in construction companies and architectural firms impacts the overall budget and costs of the organization. Subsequently, the need for BIM leaders arises for setting up of the company work culture, training the staff, and management for the BIM services, process coordination and developing the virtual architecture of the BIM system. The leaders train the team with the right technological applications, and essential business skills also. The BIM leaders are versatile professionals who can teach and prepare the employees for several project management and cost-saving ideas that enhance project efficiency.

Time Management Skills

With the awareness that the BIM is a deep ocean, there is a lot that can be explored and derived as the work progresses, the BIM leaders dedicate approximately 30% of their time for research new developments, technologies, and applications to update and enrich their implementation capabilities. They live the BIM process with high importance for time spent on different tasks. They have a passion for improvements and focus on training and development, quality checks, project productivity analysis, meetings etc. The BIM Leader should have great organizing skills and capabilities to get the BIM factor activated at all levels of the organization for becoming successful.

Fabulous Interpersonal skills

One of the interesting and impressive traits noticed in BIM leaders is their impeccable interpersonal skills. They are aware that BIM is a collaborative work process that requires communication, coordination, and a smooth

management approach. It includes resolving issues amicably, mitigating tasks, and working together towards the common goal. They play a vital role in creating a deep understanding of other departments and nurturing a strong team spirit that helps them initiate the project momentum on their mutual coordination.

Inspiring Communication Skills

The hidden aspect of the BIM implementation lies in the abilities of the leaders in imbibing communication and negotiation skills. The corporate etiquettes when brought into the work culture bring about a positive change in the employees. The leaders are prompt, polite, responsible, and active in their communication, be it verbal, written over emails, chats, or in team meetings. BIM leaders are known to have been focused on their communication and motivate everyone with their language fluency, topic preparation, and crystal-clear communication. It has been observed that the impact of the BIM training brought in a big air of positivity that nullified the attritions for the next couple of years.

Growth Accelerators

These and many more skills have been observed in BIM leaders. The BIM leaders are not ordinary managers, but a whole institution in themselves. This one-man team has led thousands of employees to work together as well as learn and develop themselves. Those companies who ponder upon the thoughts of whether to hire a BIM manager or not, should study and research the massive potential of the BIM system, the phenomenal role of BIM leaders and the massive transformation any organization undergoes in implementing the BIM system. BIM leaders ensure seamless project execution, perfect management, clear communication, and progressive collaboration between different teams thereby increasing the growth prospects of the company.

-Kedar Borgaonkar

www.insightssuccess.in