BIM news

Building Information Modeling (acronym: BIM) indicates a method for optimizing the planning of an architectural project.
BIM can improve the planning, design, construction and management of buildings.
In the architectural sector, the “BIM oriented” designer demonstrates his greater efficiency compared to those who still work with “non-BIM” IT packages precisely in the ease of dialogue and integration with all those IT tools that concern metric calculation, the processing of photorealistic images, the land registry as well as energy certification.
Being able to quickly transfer the project without any qualitative losses allows those who work in BIM mode to provide their referents with all the information necessary for the continuation of the project. The three-dimensional model is “rich” in information (from the simplest ones regarding volume and dimensions to the most complex ones regarding material, appearance, technical characteristics) that are not lost in communication to other studios and other IT platforms. The advantage of this design approach is evident.
Decree 560/2017 published on 12 January 2018 by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport establishes the methods and times for the progressive introduction of electronic modelling methods and tools for construction (BIM) and infrastructure in implementation of Article 23, paragraph 13, of Legislative Decree 18 April 2016, n. 50, 'Public Contracts Code'.
The new provision provides for the possibility for contracting authorities, granting authorities and economic operators, of a progressive introduction of specific electronic modelling methods and tools for construction and infrastructure in the design, construction and management phases of the works and related checks, which will be made mandatory in the future.
In particular, art. 5 provides that contracting authorities may request the use of BIM, but only if they have already carried out the preliminary steps indicated in art. 3 – staff training, adoption of a specific acquisition and maintenance plan for the necessary IT tools – and only for works whose design has been activated on the date of entry into force of the decree (art. 9, c. 2).
Pursuant to art. 6, the obligations to use the new methodologies will instead have different effective dates: from 1 January 2019 for complex works relating to works with a starting tender amount exceeding 100 million euros; from 1 January 2020 for complex works relating to works with a starting tender amount exceeding 50 million euros; from 1 January 2021 for complex works relating to works with a starting tender amount exceeding 15 million euros; from 1 January 2022 for complex works relating to works with a starting tender amount exceeding the community thresholds; from 1 January 2023 for works with a starting tender amount exceeding 1 million euros.