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Are you ready for BIM?
Established in 1989, Man and Machine is
part of a pan-European group, operating
in 11 countries, with over 750 staff
and over 500,000 installed CAD seats.
We provide expertise in digital design
and data management with over 60
years of combined technical experience
and extensive industry. Our specialist
knowledge has allowed us to develop a
wide variety of services that address the
needs of our customers’ across multiple
industries to enable them to design,
visualise, and simulate to the highest
standard.
Our goal is to help you optimise your
design process. Whether you are in
the architecture, plant or construction
industries, we have the experience to
understand your business and what you
are trying to achieve, and we have the
expertise to enable you to do it better.
It takes many activities and skills to bring
the ideas and designs of Architects/
Engineers to fulfilment. Building
Information Modelling (BIM) attempts to
standardise the creation and exchange
of information to make the design,
construction and operational management
of a facility or infrastructure asset more
efficient.
It is important to note that BIM is not just
about buildings, but in its wildest context
is being applied to facility, building, road,
railway, and infrastructure projects.
It is also now very much impacting
organisations throughout the supply chain
including manufacturers, fabricators and
interior designers.
The word ‘building’ in itself also doesn’t
necessarily describe the full scope of
a project – it doesn’t cover policies,
assumptions, strategic decisions, supply
chain, specification, user assessment,
regulation and recycling sustainability. All
are key parts of the projects ‘information
model’ and should be included in the
creation of the facility or asset information
as the project progresses.
BIM covers all aspects of the project
lifecycle and is being driven by UK
Government, to ensure that all public
sector projects are under-pinned by the
creation, collation and exchange or shared
3D models and intelligent structured data
that is attached to them. UK Government
has defined a minimum requirement for
Level 3 BIM by 2016, which defines a
series of domain models a nd the provision
of a single electronic environment to store
shared data and information.
UK Government has defined a minimum
requirement for Level 3 BIM by 2016.
Making the right choices to begin your
BIM journey and maximise the return
on your investment is critical. Man and
Machine offer a variety of solutions and
services to help you understand the
impact of BIM and the market opportunity
that it presents throughout the supply
chain. The solutions and services include
BIM-based products, modelling and
measurement solutions, BIM deployment
programs, training and consultancy.
Contact us today for more information,
call 01844 263700,
email [email protected],
visit www.manandmachine.co.uk/BIM or
@ManandMachineUK on Twitter.