What is BIM?
BIM stands for Building Information Modeling. This term describes the process and method of creating and maintaining a digital building model as a virtual copy of a real construction project.
The building model as a whole consists of various superimposed specialist models created by all disciplines involved in the project. Each of these specialist models includes the information required for the discipline in question. Being not only the information tool but also the data platform for all project-specific parameters and characteristics, the building model acts as a decision-making basis for all project participants. Consequently, the building model is at the center of BIM-compliant planning.
Project participants create and maintain the building model during the planning phase and the construction phase. These maintenance steps form a cyclic workflow, steadily increasing information density, level of detail and reliability of planning data.
At regular intervals laid down in the BIM schedule, the project participants combine the specialist models into coordination models and check, discuss and adjust the information quality and planning quality of these models. The responsible disciplines then work through the resulting corrections, additions or changes. After this, they make the updated planning data available again.
What is Bimplus?
Bimplus is a service offered by ALLPLAN GmbH. With this service, you can combine all project-specific planning data created by various disciplines and simultaneously provide all project participants with the planning data. In doing so, you are not limited to a particular product.
With the openBIM platform Bimplus, which is hosted by ALLPLAN GmbH, the other planning partners you have invited can directly access the data of the current planning state. After you have registered, you can open Bimplus straight from Allplan or from the Bimplus web portal.
But that is not all: The Bimplus web portal provides you with all the functions you need to superimpose specialist models created by your planning partners from various disciplines and to check the models for planning errors and clashes. In addition, you can inform your planning partners of problems and assign tasks for solving these problems.
Bimplus logs all uploads and downloads so that you can always keep track of who uploaded, downloaded or changed which data and when.
As you can see, Bimplus is an indispensable tool for creating and maintaining a digital building model, helping you to control and handle projects based on the BIM method.
