"Non-value added effort or waste is a significant problem in the
construction industry. Much of the waste comes from inaccurate or
entrusted information causing the information to have to be re-gathered
multiple times throughout the life of the project. This waste has been
identified to be 57% in the construction industry by a chart prepared by
the Construction Industry Institute and Lean Construction Institute.
While waste in the manufacturing sector was identified to be 26%. This
31% variance when plotted against the 2008 design and construction
spending projections by Engineering News-Record
comes out to nearly $400B annually. This number does not include
operations and sustainment, which would jack the number up through the
ceiling, as if it were not high enough already. The primary beneficiary
is the owner. However, many owners seem to be content to pay the freight
of design and construction, whatever the cost and have been rather
lethargic to push for change to date. The construction industry, however
is seeing benefit to implementing BIM on their own and is pushing
forward at a rather rapid rate for this traditionally conservative
industry." to find out more...
Passage via http://www.wbdg.org/bim/bim.php
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