Building Information Modelling

建筑信息建模(BIM)是一个对全球建筑业产生根本性影响的过程。它使企业能够在实际物理建造之前虚拟地设想设施的建造，以便识别问题、模拟挑战、分析潜在的解决方案、提高安全性并降低总体建造成本。它的使用提高了生产力，因为它改变了项目的现有水平，提高了互操作性、可扩展性、标准化和风险管理，从而显著改善了项目管理、决策以及满足交付成果和截止日期。这使建筑公司能够在建筑生命周期的每个阶段实现重大效率，从概念到使用。加拿大建筑业目前在BIM技术的研究和采用方面落后于世界其他地区。由于采用BIM的商业成本高昂，包括在基础设施、硬件、软件和培训方面的巨额投资，许多中小企业实际上将被排除在需要BIM专业知识的合同竞争之外。乔治布朗学院(GBC)致力于成为加拿大领先的BIM应用研究、创新和培训机构。GBC将支持中小企业采用BIM方法，并将BIM工具应用于其商业模式。拟议的计划将积极地将BIM技术和流程转移到安大略省的建筑业中小企业，提高中小企业在整个建筑生命周期中的生产力和效率。GBC将为应届毕业生以及经验丰富的行业专业人员提供培训，以便他们能够促进BIM在劳动力中的实施。这一倡议将使GBC能够发挥领导作用，与业界合作，解决BIM创新差距，并促进安大略省建筑业的经济发展。

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process that is radically impacting the construction industryworldwide. It enables businesses to envisage the construction of a facility virtually, prior to its actual physicalconstruction, in order to identify problems, simulate challenges, analyze potential solutions, improve safety anddecrease overall build costs. Its utilization increases productivity by transforming existing levels of projectinteroperability, scalability, standardization and risk management and so significantly improving projectmanagement, decision-making and meeting deliverables and deadlines. This enables construction companies torealize major efficiencies at every stage of the building lifecycle from concept through to occupation. TheCanadian construction sector currently lags behind the rest of the world in research and adoption of BIMtechnology. Because of the prohibitive business costs of BIM adoption, which include sizable investments ininfrastructure, hardware, software and training, many SMEs will effectively be locked out of the competitionfor contracts that require BIM expertise.George Brown College (GBC) is committed to becoming the leading institution in Canada for BIM appliedresearch, innovation and training. GBC will support SMEs in adopting BIM approaches and adapting BIMtools into their business models. The proposed initiative will actively transfer BIM technology and processes toOntario's construction sector SMEs, increasing SME productivity and efficiency throughout the whole buildinglifecycle. GBC will provide training to recent graduates as well as to seasoned industry professionals so thatthey can facilitate BIM implementation in the workforce. This initiative will enable GBC to take a leadershiprole and partner with industry to address the BIM innovation gap and catalyze economic development in theconstruction sector in Ontario.