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BIM PREVAILS IN MAINTAINING CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY

Dinesh Desai

November 21, 2020

BIM PREVAILS IN MAINTAINING CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY

The firm “Okland Construction” using the BIM modeling technology to getting more projects and being more competitive, technology-oriented companies found that there are benefits of BIM into various areas as well, importantly in which other Construction companies struggle every day is “Site-Safety”.

The statistics show that construction-injuries are very sobering, the total cost to a private firm for fatal and nonfatal injuries is estimated at around 15%. In fact, the injury rate is around 1 in every 10 site construction worker, this clearly signifies that the construction industries need to start performing better when it comes to ensuring job-site safety and companies using building information modeling technology is a great place to start.

How BIM Makes Job-Site safer:

Defining how this technology can be used to leverage to avoid hazards and help planning safer logistics and devices for the entire projects.

For example, firm A used BIM modeling on a project to build multiple systems of shared racks for performing the heating, plumbing, pre-manufacturing, cooling and other logistics that possibly is assembled on the central ground location and then hoisted into the job site. The pre-manufacture of shared rack systems helps in reducing the construction time and also ensuring the site-safety.

The Statistics shows how BIM improves site-safety:

Building Information Modelling allows teams to embed safety more accurately and efficiently into planning. For improving safety firms are looking into the model-based process.

  • 21% of site-workers working with BIM technology recorded a significant effect on safety.
  • 37% owners of the projects experienced and reported around 5% reduction in incidents reporting.
  • There is around a 10% reduction in reported incidence quoted by 12% of projects.
  • BIM improved safety during the early installation quoted by 24% of MEP trades.
  • BIM allows us to detect and identify the safety issues in the early stage.
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Dinesh Desai

Director, Technical Solutions Dinesh Desai is the Technical Director at ReviCAD Solutions LLP with 20+ years of experience in BIM, CAD drafting, Revit family creation, and digital construction workflows. He regularly shares practical insights on BIM implementation, project coordination, construction documentation, and AEC technology trends.

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