Month: February 2014

Here are more examples of how CBA-BIM can make CBA relevant again by calculating sustainability impact value: Property values vary with distance to a feature or risk. Developers sell houses on a park for more than the same houses without a park view. Economic (hedonic...

Title quote from the movie Shrek (2001). BIM has layers: layers of data. CBA-BIM has even more layers than a chicken barn. A BIM model already contains layers that could include: Terrain, which establishes the elevation of the model; all other data is draped on top of...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has the potential to increase the transparency and consistency of data across the planning design and operation phases of infrastructure projects. This is because BIM provides increased “clarity of project intent for all...

CBA-BIM /si-bä-bim/ noun The process of combining the costs, benefits and risks of infrastructure with digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places to answer the question “what is in it for me?” Google ngram for CBA and BIM Automating...