BIM

Professional Outsourced Real Estate and Facilities Management BIM Services

How are you supposed to manage the functionality of your entire real estate portfolio? If you own multiple buildings, or you have a few different production facilities on the same campus, you would need multiple people to work full-time just to manage these buildings.

A well-made facilities management BIM can help you a ton. With our help, you can greatly reduce the stress put on your facilities managers, and you can pare down how many people you need to run the operation. With our real estate BIM models, we’ll include all of the important information about your operations in a single file. Different tradespeople, engineers, and facilities managers can access the same BIM model to learn everything they need to know.

We are here to make your life easier. Instead of juggling a dozen different drawings, layouts, plans, diagrams, and site maps, you just need a single BIM. The best part? Our 5D BIM models come with additional pricing and timeline information, to give you a deeper understanding of your construction process or operational efficiency.

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What Are Real Estate and Facilities Management BIM Services?

Professional facilities real estate and facilities management BIM services are built to help optimize your buildings. These are professional BIM models for your existing buildings — whether it’s a real estate project, production facility, or any form of processing building. Our BIM models will add a ton of information into each real estate model, ensuring you have enough data in each BIM file.

For facilities management specifically, we would include information about equipment and any serviceable object under your roof. We can add maintenance schedules, automatic updates when it’s time to repair a machine, or routine checks that need to be done across your building.

This will greatly help your maintenance team, and it creates a paper trail of your maintenance actions for audit reasons.

Our engineers will create high-quality BIM files for your team.

Why Real Estate and Facilities Management BIM Services Matters

Putting together a real estate or facilities management BIM file is no easy feat. Our success is largely thanks to our team of over 100 engineers and 35+ years in operation. We have a ton of experience which allows us to create these highly technical and complicated BIMs.

Other outsourced companies can’t say the same. A lot of our “competitors” will offer fast turnarounds and low pricing, but they fail to mention the sub-par quality you’ll be receiving. Many don’t have the experience needed to make a 2D BIM, much less a high-quality 5D BIM.

For that reason, we always suggest that you start with CAD/CAM Services. We have a proven track record and a very impressive team of engineers. We are here to exceed your expectations. After working with us, you’ll realize why we don’t consider these other companies to be our competitors — the CAD/CAM Services difference is that you’ll only get CAD Perfect® BIM files from us.

Benefits of Real Estate and Facilities Management BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services

A lot of massive companies continually choose CAD/CAM Services for all of their BIM needs. The reason is because we offer a ton of benefits, especially when it comes to our BIM work:

Save money on each BIM. Our services are priced so that you’ll save money on each BIM operation we perform for you. Whether that’s a small revision, a massive overhaul, or a brand-new BIM file, we’re here to save you money.
Optimize your operation, construction, or new process line. Our 5D BIM models are built to optimize every part of your business, whether you’re a brand-new company or a legacy operation.
Faster turnarounds. Our 100+ engineers and drafters work on staggered shifts so we can operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The result? Much faster turnarounds without sacrificing quality.
Experience you can’t find elsewhere. Our team goes through extensive training and real-world exposure to help them create top-of-the-line BIM models for your company.
Free up your in-house engineers. No need to overburden your in-house engineers with any BIM tasks, leave it to our BIM pros at CAD/CAM Services. No project is too small or too complicated for us.

What Goes into Real Estate and Facilities Management BIM Services from CAD/CAM Services?

Our real estate and facilities management BIM services are built to meet your needs. That’s why we start every project with a consultation. This conversation gives you an opportunity to explain exactly what you’re looking for, ask us any questions you have, and learn how it works. It also gives us a chance to explain exactly how we can help you.

Once we have the scope dialed in, we’ll get started. For larger projects, we’ll assign multiple drafters and engineers, and a designated Project Manager who will be your point of contact for any comments or questions.

We can join your weekly meetings, start our own meetings, or just keep our heads down and keep working — whatever your preference is for communication and updates, we’ll adhere to it.

When we finish a BIM model, we’ll put it through an intensive internal review. Other engineers will peer review it, and the Project Manager will look for any project-specific issues before giving it the greenlight.

The final BIM files will be sent to you via a DoD-trusted filesharing service. Take a look at the BIM model and let us know if anything looks wrong. We’ll quickly make changes and send back the revised file in as little as 24 hours.

Our Real Estate and Facilities Management 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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We know how difficult it is to manage a single building, much less a dozen different facilities. Allow our high-quality 5D BIM models to save you time and money across all of your buildings. We can optimize your new construction project, upcoming expansion, or existing process line. With our help, you can spot issues and gain optimizations that you never thought were possible. Choose CAD/CAM Services to save time and money, today.

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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.