BIM

Professional Outsourced Construction Drawings BIM Services

Planning, scheduling, and arranging for a new construction project comes with too many complications to count. This is often a massively expensive project, with dozens of different tradespeople working together on a tight timeline. However, a well-made BIM drawing can remove a lot of the headaches and uncertainty of any construction project.

With CAD/CAM Services, you can make your next construction project a little easier. We offer full-scale outsource BIM services that will exceed your expectations. Some of those services are specifically geared towards helping with new construction projects.

How can CAD/CAM Services help with your next construction project? Through a 5D BIM model. These models will help you generate timelines for each trade, a comprehensive cost analysis, understanding of the full process, solidifying the scope of your project, and even generating full BOMs to ensure you’re ordering the right quantity of materials.

To put it simply, CAD/CAM Services can save you time and money through our construction drawings BIM services.

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What Are Construction Drawings BIM Services?

Construction drawing BIM services involve creating a high-quality 5D BIM model. Our team will put together the model with all the important information already included. Your plumbers, electricians, mechanical installers, and safety auditors can all use the same BIM to see information that’s pertinent to their trade.

This all sounds too good to many people, but a well-made BIM is certainly not easy to create. Our engineers have to go through years of training, practice, and trial-and-error before we can make BIMs this good. However, we have a staff of over 100 engineers and drafters, so we can create construction drawing BIMs that deliver on these promises.

You can use our generated BIM as part of your daily construction meetings between tradespeople. With everyone looking at the same file, there’s no risk of miscommunication. You’ll run into fewer panicked phone calls and mistakes along the way.

No construction project is perfect, but with our construction drawing BIM services, your project can get ten steps closer to “perfect”

Why Construction Drawings BIM Services Matters

As we mentioned, creating high-quality construction BIM models isn’t easy at all. But that doesn’t stop sub-par outsourcing companies from offering construction BIM drawings in the hopes that you won’t realize how bad the final model really is. We’ve seen a lot of butchered BIM projects in the past, and it almost takes longer to fix these files than it does to create a high-quality BIM from scratch.

Our advice? Make sure you do a deep dive into the outsource company you’re thinking about hiring. They need to have a history of success with BIMs, a big team to support each construction BIM project, and the right experience and expertise on their staff.

Alternatively, you can just choose CAD/CAM Services. With over 35 years in business, over 100 engineers and drafters on our team, and a long history of success with construction BIM projects, we can exceed your expectations. Other guys will cut corners, overcharge you, and take too long, but it’s a different story at CAD/CAM Services.

Choose us if you’re serious about streamlining your full construction project, while saving time and money along the way.

Benefits of Construction Drawings BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services

A lot of massive Fortune 500 companies keep choosing CAD/CAM Services for all of their BIM needs. Why? There are too many benefits to count:

Faster turnarounds. With our help, you can get finalized BIM drawings in a fraction of the time, thanks to our 100+ engineers who work around the clock.
Save money during construction. With a well-made BIM from CAD/CAM Services, you will save a ton of money during construction.
More information in each BIM. We make sure that every BIM file has a ton of information so you can get more with each BIM file.
A partner for any engineering needs. We are here for every step of your construction and production processes. We’ll create BIMs before construction starts, update them into as-builts, and create any manufacturing drawings you need.
Spot potential issues before it’s too late. With our BIMs, you can find potential interferences and shortcomings in your building’s design before you even break ground.

What Goes into Construction Drawings BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services?

Our construction drawing BIM services all revolve around your needs. Whether you have a rough BIM to start with, or you need us to create them from scratch, we’re here to help. Allow our engineers to exceed your expectations and create high-quality construction BIM drawings for your team.

It all starts with a consultation. During this conversation, let us know what you have, what you’re looking for, and how involved you’d like us to be. Our experts will explain specifically how we can help, and we can start talking about timelines and costs.

From there, our engineers will get to work. We’ll start creating BIM models, interfacing with your engineers and project managers, and making some fast progress. All of our high-quality BIM models will go through a round of internal peer reviews to make sure everything is perfect.

Afterwards, we’ll send every file to you digitally through a DoD-trusted filesharing service that keeps your information private. If you spot any issues, simply let us know and we’ll make quick revisions and send back updated BIMs.

You can ask us to continually update the BIM as your team makes new decisions, opinions change, or stakeholders want to try something else. Once the construction is done, let us know and we’ll make as-builts and revisions to the BIM to guarantee accuracy across the entire model.

Our Construction Drawings BIM Services Include:

BIM 3D Virtual Presentations
2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D BIM Generation
2D to 5D BIM Conversion
New Construction BIM Modeling
Revisions, Updates, and As-Built BIM Creation
And Much More (Including Custom Services)

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Our team at CAD/CAM Services can update your old BIMs, optimize your new BIMs, create construction BIM drawings from scratch, or create as-builts after the project is done. With our help, you can get the most out of your BIM files. We’ll help you speed up your project, save money, and avoid needless headaches along the way. Choose CAD/CAM Services for the best BIM construction drawings.

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BIM FAQ

What is BIM?

BIM stands for Building Information Model, Maintenance, or Management. We typically say “Model”, since BIM is a technical model of your new or existing building. A BIM file is much more involved and detailed than a 3D CAD file, and the purpose of a BIM file is completely different. BIM files are created to help your projects in multiple aspects. BIM helps with the cost, performance, appearance, logistics, efficiency, and environmental impact of your new construction or existing facility.

What are the benefits of BIM?

A well-made BIM file can be a lifesaver for any type of company:

BIM files include valuable information that can help the day-to-day efficiency of your production facility.
Your maintenance team can use BIM to predict equipment breakdowns and avoid devastating downtime.
BIM files can keep your building up to code and help establish a paper trail for safety audits, such as audits by fire authorities.
A BIM file is a central file for all different trades to put in information. Your HVAC, electrical, mechanical, and installation crews can all work from the same file.
BIM is great for stakeholders. You can create digital walk-throughs or fly-throughs to look at virtual mock-ups of new or existing buildings.
BIM can help you spot collisions before installation. Maybe a water line is going through an area that’s supposed to be reserved for a structural beam. Spotting issues sooner means avoiding costly mistakes later.
A BIM file can also confirm that everyone is on the same page when it comes to the scope and the design of a facility. After reviews are done, you can lock in the BIM file and use it as a reference, making sure everyone has the same target.

What types of companies use BIM files?

We’ve been offering BIM services for 35+ years at CAD/CAM Services, and you’d be surprised by how many companies we’ve helped from different applications and industries. The simple answer is that there’s no cookie-cutter user for a BIM file. We’ve helped tiny machine shops, massive defense companies, plastics manufacturers, and commercial construction companies all the same.

We have a joke around our office that explains who can benefit from BIM: If your existing building or new construction project has walls, you can benefit from BIM.

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Isn’t BIM just a SolidWorks drawing?

Actually, BIM is completely different from SolidWorks. In 3D CAD files, the file revolves around dimensions and material properties, and that’s it. With 3D, 4D, or 5D BIM, the file revolves around information.

Having a 3D building layout is just the first step of BIM — next, we’ll input information like equipment specs, maintenance tasks, location of critical parts, structural information, cost data, timeline impacts, and much more.

What are some common uses of BIM?

We’ve developed BIM files for companies across industries. There is not one specific use for BIM, but instead there are a ton of common uses:

Visualization
Scope Clarification
Partial Trade Coordination
Collision Detection/Avoidance
Design Validation
Construction Sequencing Planning/Phasing Plans/Logistics
Marketing Presentations
Options Analysis
Walk-throughs and Fly-throughs
Virtual Mock-Ups
Sight Line Studies

Why should I outsource my BIM projects?

BIM work takes a lot of time and previous experience to do correctly. Unless you have a dedicated BIM specialist or BIM department in-house, it will take too long to learn the idiosyncrasies of BIM. In other words, you’ll be wasting a ton of time and money on each part of your BIM file — not to mention, there’s a good chance the final BIM model will be missing a ton of information. By outsourcing to CAD/CAM Services, you will save time, save money, get more data from each file, and be able to handle bigger and more complicated BIM projects.

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What is 5D in BIM?

In BIM, it’s common for us to talk about 2D, 3D, 4D, and 5D files:

2D BIM is no different than a flat building layout. Example: A floor plan of a single room.
3D BIM is a building layout with wall height, and the ability to add multiple floors in a single file. Example: a multi-level hospital building.
4D BIM takes a 3D model and adds in a time component. Sometimes it’s a schedule for project managers, other times it’s a maintenance schedule for your mechanics. Example: a 4D BIM for new construction involves step-by-step project timelines plus a deadline.
‍5D BIM starts with a 4D BIM model and adds in cost. This is the most comprehensive type of BIM file. With 5D BIM, all the information you need for your new construction project can be found in one place. 5D BIM includes the costs for manhours, raw equipment, and different installation steps. Example: New construction of apartment buildings in which the cost and timeline are very important to investors.

Is BIM just for huge multi-million-dollar projects?

Another common misconception is that BIM is just for massive skyscrapers and huge manufacturing facilities. We made a BIM file for a small company’s garage warehouse, so there is certainly no limit to how big your company has to be.

BIM is for any company that operates a facility. The BIM file will include information that helps you every week by minimizing downtime, improving yield, and maximizing your efficiency. Whether you’re making hand-knitted sweaters or skyscrapers in Manhattan, BIM will help your operation.

What is a BEP?

A BIM Execution Plan (BEP) is something you’ll put together before starting a project. It outlines how information is managed and shared throughout the lifecycle of your pre-construction and post-construction operation.

A BEP can specifically outline objectives, milestones, responsibilities, contacts across your supply chain, and how you’ll share information. It’s a quick way to make sure all parties are on the same page before construction starts or before you open your doors for business.