The Uses of BIM

This work builds upon concepts within the BIM Project Execution Planning Guide and the BIM Planning Guide for Facility Owners. Those Guides were authored by members of the Computer Integrated Construction (CIC) Research Group at the Pennsylvania State University including: John Messner, Chimay Anumba, Robert Leicht, Craig Dubler, Ralph Kreider, Colleen Kasprzak, Nevena Zikic, Chitwan Saluja, Shane Goodman, Ashwin Ramesh, Eric Nulton, Dan Weiger, and Kim Price. The Guides were sponsored by The Charles Pankow Foundation, The Construction Industry Institute; US DoD Military Health System, Kaiser Permanente, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Penn State Office of Physical Plant (OPP), and The Partnership for Achieving Construction Excellence (PACE). The Guides were created through the buildingSMART alliance™ (bSa) Projects “BIM Project Execution Planning” and “BIM for Owners.” This document was reviewed by Steven Ayer (Penn State), Dianne Davis (AEC Infosystems), Robert Fraga (MBP), Sonali Kumar (Balfour Beatty), Charles Miller (MBP), Mairav Mintz (MBP), and Rachel Riopel Wiley (HDR).