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Building Information Modeling (acronym BIM) indicates a method for optimizing architectural project planning.
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 the metric calculation, the processing of photorealistic images , the land registry as well as the energy certification.
Being able to quickly transfer the project without quality losses allows those who work in BIM mode to provide their contacts 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 more complex ones regarding material, appearance, technical characteristics) which is not lost in communication to other studies and other IT platforms. The advantage of this design approach is evident.
The 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 modeling methods and tools for construction (BIM) and infrastructure in implementation of article 23 , paragraph 13, of the legislative decree 18 April 2016, n. 50, ‘Public contracts code’.
The new provision provides for the possibility for contracting authorities, granting administrations and economic operators, of a progressive introduction of specific electronic modeling methods and tools for construction and infrastructure in the design, construction and management phases of works and related checks, which will be made mandatory in the future.
In particular, the art. 5 provides that contracting authorities may request the use of BIM, but only if they have already carried out the preliminary obligations indicated in the art. 3 – staff training, adoption of a specific plan for the acquisition and maintenance of the necessary IT tools – and only for works whose planning was 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 tender amount exceeding 100 million euros; from 1 January 2020 for complex works relating to works with a tender amount exceeding 50 million euros; from 1 January 2021 for complex works relating to works with a tender amount exceeding 15 million euros; from 1 January 2022 for complex works relating to works with a tender amount higher than the community thresholds; from 1 January 2023 for works with a tender amount exceeding 1 million euros.