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Building Information Modeling (BIM) Software

Building Information Modeling

What is Building Information Modeling Software?

Building Information Modeling (BIM) provides a digital representation of physical and functional facility characteristics to help with planning and managing construction projects. BIM extends beyond 2D technical drawings to include spatial dimensions (width, height and depth). BIM enables a virtual information model to be handed from the design team (architects, landscape architects, surveyors, civil, structural and building services engineers, etc.) to the main contractor and subcontractors and then on to the owner/operator.

Common Features

  • Design Visualization
  • Design Markups/Annotation
  • Collaboration
  • Document Management
  • Analytics
  • 2D Drawing
  • 3D Design Visualization
  • Scheduling
  • MEP Fabrication Modeling and Detailing
  • Clash Detection

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Top Building Information Modeling Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Revit BIM software helps architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams create high-quality buildings and infrastructure. Use Revit to model shapes, structures, and systems in 3D with parametric accuracy, precision, and ease; streamline documentation work, with instant revisions to plans, elevations, schedules, and sections as projects change; and empower multidisciplinary teams with specialty toolsets and a unified project environment.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Autodesk Inc

Navisworks

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Use Navisworks project review software to improve BIM (Building Information Modeling) coordination. Combine design and construction data into a single model. Identify and resolve clash and interference problems before construction. Aggregate data from multiple trades to better control outcomes.

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service
  • Saves Time
  • Altruistic
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

Structural design engineers, detailers, fabricators, contractors and project managers can create, combine, manage and share accurate models for every project. Work with any material, boost collaboration, enhance decision making and make your company famous for exceptional results. Accurate 3D models put you on the cutting-edge without complications. It's time for structural engineers, designers, detailers, fabricators, contractors and project managers to rise beyond traditional limits on every stage of construction. With Tekla Structures, you can create, combine, manage and share information with remarkable efficiency.

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Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Over Delivered
  • Effective Service
  • Respectful

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Bimobject AB

BIMobject

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

BIMobject is Building Information Modelling (BIM) that revolutionizes how buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained. We provide design inspiration and digital product information to the world's architects and engineers, while giving building product manufacturers a better way to reach, influence, and understand them.

Procore Technologies, Inc.

Procore

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Cloud-based construction project management software built for the industry professional. Improve project predictability by taking 3D models out of the office and putting them in the hands of the people installing and validating work in the field.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

BIM 360 Design enables real-time design collaboration and data management in Revit, Civil 3D, and AutoCAD Plant 3D. Work and access project data from anywhere. Collaborate with internal teams or across organizations throughout the project lifecycle. Design for AEC projects is a complex, iterative process. BIM 360 Design offers powerful access control, markup, and mobile review features made for building and civil engineering workflows. Distributed teams can easily communicate status and share design updates.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Nemetschek Group

Graphisoft Archicad

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Design, visualize, document, and deliver projects of all sizes with Archicad’s powerful set of built-in tools and easy-to-use interface that make it the most efficient and intuitive BIM software on the market. With Archicad, you can focus on what you do best: design great buildings.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Revizto

Revizto

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

Enable your team to take advantage of their intelligent BIM data and models by centralizing all of them into one location. Revizto enables users to easily perform design review, drawing checks, 2D / 3D coordination and model QA exercises in a non-destructive environment.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
Digital Project, Inc.

Digital Project Manager

Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

DP Manager is a light weight, easy-to-use project review & information management for project managers. It includes 3D Model review, measuring and annotation, quantity takeoffs, 4D modeling and schedule integration, project collaboration, and 2D and 3D support.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
BENTLEY SYSTEMS, INCORPORATED

OpenBuildings Designer

Composite Score
7.1 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

OpenBuildings Designer is a multidiscipline building design application that enables BIM workflows to provide information-rich models for the design, analysis, simulation, and documentation of buildings. It incorporates OpenBuildings Designer computational design and energy services for building performance evaluation. OpenBuildings Designer immerses you in a 3D modeling environment and provides site content by referencing reality models. The application shares a catalog of design components across the project team.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Transparent