Redeeming BIM’s Promise in Practice: Integrative Planning with Hilti as a Partner
Synopsis
The current paper aims to share Hilti’s experience on BIM, as a global company. We present
our vision on BIM and the rationale behind our committed investment in this area. We have
developed a set of BIM Design Services, that offer customers the possibility to design and
install the support system for different trades in an integrated way (including Mechanical,
Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) trades). Our offer is structured around four design services:
Framework, Design, Modeling and BIM Output. We share and discuss how these services can
add value to a project, through design optimization (savings on material, time and space on the
jobsite), prefabrication (better quality, execution time and safety), advanced logistics
(improvements in project management) and BIM-to-Field (more precision and productivity in
the positioning of elements). Finally, we assess our worldwide experience in BIM projects in
terms of return on investment (ROI).
