leed International, llc

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

The production of a Building Information Model (BIM) for the construction of a project involves the use of an integrated multi-disciplinary performance model to encompass the building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, along with quantities and properties of the building components.

Leed International employes three basic concepts to the design and development of a BIM project that are:

Virtual Building Modeling (VBM)
Virtual Building Environment (VBE)
Virtual Design to Construction Project Manager (VDC)

Leed International’s Virtual Design to Construction Project Manager (VDC - also known as VDCPM) is a professional in the field of project management and delivery.

The VDC is retained by a design build team on the clients’ behalf from the pre-design phase through certificate of occupancy in order to develop and to track the object oriented BIM against predicted and measured performance objectives.

The VDC manages the project delivery through multi-disciplinary building information models that drive analysis, schedules, take-off, and logistics. The VDC is skilled in the use of BIM as a tool to manage and assess the technology, staff, and procedural needs of a project.

In short the VDC is a contemporary project managing architect who is equipped to deal with the current evolution of project delivery. The VDC acts as a conduit to bridge time tested construction knowledge to digital analysis and representation.

The use of BIM goes beyond the design phase of the project and takes an important role during the construction phase of a project as well as the post construction phases and facility management.

The entire purpose of BIM is to make the construction process more efficient and eliminate as many uncertainties as possible before starting the construction process.

Participants in the building process are constantly challenged to deliver successful projects despite tight budgets, limited manpower, accelerated schedules, and limited or conflicting information. Innovations in BIM boast of capabilities to ease the pain of project delivery.

The concept of Building Information Modeling (BIM) is to build a building virtually prior to building it physically, in order to work out problems, and simulate and analyze potential impacts.

Furthermore, along the project anticipation and ease of project delivery, the overall safety of the project will improve due to the elimination of uncertainty.

The work site is safer because more items will be pre-assembled off site and trucked to the site keeping the on-site trades to a minimum.

Waste will be minimized on-site and products will be delivered when needed and not stock piled on site assisting in making the project more “green”.

This will make a great impact in the way a construction project is managed and will also bring along a safer jobsite and more accurate construction with a more sophisticated design process which will allow sub contractors from every trade to input critical information into the software before the beginning of the actual construction.

Leed International has developed a variety of working concepts of BIM.

Our defination that describe it generally as.....

"an object-oriented building development tool that utilizes 5-D modeling concepts, information technology and software interoperability to design, construct and operate a building project, as well as communicate its details.”

Our 5-D modeling concepts involve modeling not only the 3 primary spatial dimensions of X, Y, and Z; but also “time” as the 4th dimension and “cost” as the 5th.

Leed International concepts of BIM offers:

Improved visualization
Improved productivity due to easy retrieval of information
Increased coordination of construction documents
Embedding and linking of vital information such as vendors for specific materials, location of details and quantities required for estimation and tendering
Increased speed of delivery
Reduced costs

BIM is an instrumental tool in our concept of “Integrated Project Delivery” (IPD) where the primary motive is to bring the development teams together early on in the project.

A full implementation of BIM also requires the project teams to collaborate from the inception stage and formulate model sharing and ownership contract documents.

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