BIM-Association

Association of the organizations for the development of information modeling in construction, housing and utilities (BIM-Association) is an Association of professionals of the construction industry: construction and design organizations, research institutions, software vendors, educational institutions involved in technology implementation processes building information modeling (BIM Tech) in Russia. Business and professional community of science related to BIM-since the late 2000’s began to actively promote the idea of building information modeling technologies in the design, construction and operation of facilities on the territory of Russia. At the same time, the most advanced and sophisticated Russian companies-as builders and manufacturers of software already actively used similar technology. At the beginning of 2014. their appeals were heard by the Government and the Presidency of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia (March 4, 2014) instructed Minstroju of Russia to develop and approve the plan for the phased implementation of building information modeling technologies in the field of industrial and civil construction, including the possibility of conducting examination of project documents prepared using such technologies. The Ministry, in turn, to the development of this plan has established a working group consisting of representatives from both regulators and representatives of business and scientific community.