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Chapter 1 - Background
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From page 3...
... BIM can help stakeholders visualize what will be built in a simu­ lated environment to identify potential design, construction, or operation issues. BIM offers the potential to decrease project costs, increase productivity and quality, and reduce project delivery time.
From page 4...
... In Phase II, the research team conducted case studies, refined the business case methodology, developed a tool to estimate the ROI of BIM adoption, drafted recommendations for BIM implementation to support asset data management, and produced a multi-media package to communicate the benefits of BIM to decision-makers. This research report describes the goals and motivations for the study, the research approach, findings, and conclusions.
From page 5...
... • Chapter 4 presents the benefit and cost data captured during the case studies, validation of assumptions from the panel of expert workshops, and the business approach for analyzing benefits and costs of BIM deployment. • Chapter  5 contains a high-level plan for the steps to implement BIM to support asset management.


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