Environmental benefits from BIM Infra by setec

BIM infrastructures: for an approach based on environmental benefits

Long overshadowed by building BIM, infrastructure BIM is now developing rapidly. The national MINnD project, specifically dedicated to the development of BIM over the entire infrastructure cycle, makes it possible to address the issues necessary for its deployment. However, BIM infrastructure is still a specialist subject. It is often considered as a project deliverable, produced at the end of the chain, and not as a new way of organising the design and construction process.  A better appropriation of BIM infrastructure by the entire chain, from the client to the operator, is now necessary in order for its promises to become a reality.

To move up a gear, we need to approach the subject of BIM infrastructure from the point of view of the benefits of this process, and not just from its technological or organisational aspects. 

• Some of its benefits are already well known to project owners: better collaborative management between the various project stakeholders, or improved communication with decisionmakers or the public.
• Others remain less perceptible, even though they will be at the heart of needs in the years to come. Preparing for the management of the completed asset, which will be facilitated by the delivery of an "operationready" model, will be the key to the sustainable operation and maintenance of structures. Furthermore, BIM infrastructure has the potential to optimise natural resources (e.g. during earthworks) and avoid or reduce environmental impacts.

Developing the benefits of BIM for the ecological transition is today an imperative for the setec group, a multidisciplinary engineering company, which has made the ecological transition a priority with its "Engineers and Citizens" approach. The presentation of the setec group's BIM infrastructure offer at the InfraBIM Open 2021 exhibition will illustrate how to tackle this challenge in concrete terms.