BIM-Integrum

Beneens Bouw and Interieur develops a user-friendly, digital as-built file

With BIM-Integrum, Beneens wants to set up a system that shows all materials used in a building in the right quantity and at the right position. By developing a system for this and linking it to the BIM model, Beneens generates a platform that can display both the as-built file, the post-intervention file, the maintenance guidelines and the potential for urban mining in one convenient, user-friendly viewer.

As-built files - even if there are any - are nowadays a hotchpotch of various suppliers, technical datasheets and classifiers in which one gets lost. They are often unchanged during execution and therefore not always up-to-date. Missing maintenance guidelines, for example, are more the rule than the exception. Buyers of an 'old' building today often have no idea of the elements present, nor of the building elements that can be reused after demolition or dismantling.

The solution is a digital as-built file that provides intuitive access to all information about the elements and materials used in a building. It looks and sounds very complex, but - according to Beneens - it is not. Or at least it doesn't have to be. Therefore, the office wants to build a user-friendly platform: BIM-Integrum.

On this platform, pre-programmed (automatically generated) statements, filters and views will make it easy to browse through digital as-built files, even for people who are not familiar with 3D software. These can be building owners, maintenance companies, technicians and renovation companies, but also future urban miners.
Today, buildings are all too often simply demolished with the prospect of selling the building land. The new standard will be the addition of digital urban mining and the sale of elements and materials.

By building a workable and user-friendly tool to transform all the information from a thorough BIM model into a usable raw material depot, Beneens wants to be able to give even more used materials in buildings a new life.