Recognizing The Value of BIM in Retail Design

Retailers, including department stores, supermarkets and shopping centers throughout the world operate in a very competitive market. Considering the need to accelerate high-end, precision design, greater design flexibility and cost efficiency, the adoption of information construction techniques of modeling (BIM) can be be a proposal for a positive value for the entire real estate development chain of retail design consultants and architects, MEP contractors and facility managers. While the transition from traditional CAD drafting process for parametric BIM detail design techniques requires time and effort, modeling retail BIM enables developers / owners meet the complex requirements of a fast and competitive industry.


The rapid development of design and construction documents
production of traditional CAD techniques for the construction project requires various businesses to create separate drawings. These drawings, which sometimes go in hundreds of conflicting documents, will convey design intent, but can not communicate vital information needed for the construction, such as specifications, classifications, cost modeling and scheduling data. While the success of the retail BIM project depends on the extent to which all participants in the project (the architect, the design consultant MEP, the member for the contractor to subcontractors trades and fit-out specialists, among other) BIM accept as the way forward. The benefit "real" BIM is to extract just-in-time of the various documents, data and views, including plans, sections, elevations, 3D perspectives, renderings, materials list, bill of quantities (BOQ ), hardware and programming time costs. This means retail of construction design sets, detailed design, shopfitting of drawings, or any construction-related data can be quickly extracted and generated on demand from the BIM model.

The development of BIM families Reusable
As retail is highly branding and brand appearance focused in a retailer can typically use devices and accessories consistent across its retail network. BIM allows retail design team to develop a standardized library of BIM families for such equipment and accessories that can be reused and edited in the design and planning of new outlets. This helps the retail owners maintain the brand identity in relation to the intent of the design, visuals, layout patterns and consumer experiences. And strengthening the retail brand, the design team can increase efficiency and reduce the time required for the phases of design and detail of creation, maintenance and updating of the various BIM libraries for different output channels.

Creating store prototype models that can be localized
Another area where the use of BIM adds value to the company to retail owners is the development of a new store prototype designs. BIM prototypes are not seen in three dimensions in 3D design intent, but they are linked to a database rich in detailed information about crucial aspects: accessories, materials, components, building systems, analysis energy, takeoffs and estimated costs. Developing smart 'prototype of such projects to accelerate the implementation of new projects of stores using traditional CAD drafting methods.

This serves to recreate a similar retail environment and the environment in multiple locations using design standards to encourage better customer experience. Furthermore, using the master model BIM "prototype" as a starting point allows all key stakeholders in the project (architect, consultants, constrictors, adjusters, professional shopfitting and procurement specialists ) to collaborate effectively to help staff to move easily in building documentation without any delay or loss of data from the design and programming phase.