BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM)

Chavez-Grieves Consulting Engineers, Inc . has been working in the 3-dimensional modeling environment for over a decade and has been utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology since 2007. BIM technology has helped our firm to realize better coordination with other disciplines and higher quality within our documents while streamlining our design team collaboration. REVIT Structure is our chosen BIM Platform. REVIT Structure allows us to coordinate our structural BIM model with the BIM models from the other disciplines on a project. In addition, REVIT Structure allows us to interface and share data with our structural design software and also our structrual steel detailing platform, giving our structural engineers the ability to explore different design alternatives in order to determine the most cost-effective structural system for any given project.