RESIDENTIAL PROJECT SCHEDULING AND COSTING USING BIM

Construction organizations run with different departments such as planning, estimation, contracts, billing & site. Number of construction when visited and studied it was found that there is lack of communication and information flow among the departmental persons working on projects. This is due to planning, scheduling and costing departments which indirectly deals with the progress of execution leading delay and poor quality in project handover. Nowadays trends of 3D model and schedule along with costing is overcoming all the above problems. This is possible by using BIM which is nowadays replacing old conventional methods. Residential project case study is chosen for computing analysis and comparing with conventional methods.