Geoff Zeiss - Talk: Growing evidence of the benefits of an integrated BIM & geospatial approach to construction

The UK Government as part of its building information modeling (BIM) initiative has said repeatedly that it expects the big payoff of a digital model will be during operations and maintenance, which typically represents 80% of the cost of a facility. Companies who do design, build, finance, and maintain, or design, build, operate, or PPP projects often employ a full lifecycle BIM + geospatial strategy. For example, Crossrail appears to be the first major project that may be able to provide support for the conjecture that the biggest benefits of BIM are for operations and maintenance. To date there has been little reported quantitative evidence supporting the benefits of this approach, but this is changing with several projects providing estimates of benefits including ROI of an integrated BIM+geospatial full-lifecycle approach to construction projects.