How 5D BIM Helps Water Treatment Plant EPCs to Bid Optimally and Win More Contracts

Water treatment plants (WTPs) are complex and elaborate in nature. Designing and maintaining them is an intricate affair that requires superior project visualization and control. The 2D designing, planning, and construction strategies often fall short and leave room for errors and costly reworks.

How 5D BIM Helps Water Treatment Plant EPCs to Bid Optimally and Win More ContractsWater treatment plants (WTPs) are complex and elaborate in nature. Designing and maintaining them is an intricate affair that requires superior project visualization and control. The 2D designing, planning, and construction strategies often fall short and leave room for errors and costly reworks.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) helps solve the problem. By integrating the entire plant design data and information in a rich 3D model, BIM makes way for superior water treatment plant design, construction, and maintenance.

But just designing an efficient WTP plant is not sufficient. To remain profitable, it is important for stakeholders to predict accurately and keep the construction costs under control too. The fifth dimension of BIM – 5D BIM – is perfect for this endeavor. By automating quantification and generating accurate bills of materials (BOMs) and bills of quantities (BOQs), it helps estimators to bid for construction projects accurately.

With 5D BIM, the Engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) companies can not only bid optimally but also win more contracts and facilitate the construction of robust, cost-efficient water treatment plants.

1. It Ensures Accurate Cost Forecasting and Estimation

The 2D cost estimation process is riddled with inaccuracies and inconsistencies. Its obsolete concepts and time-consuming manual quantification techniques make it extremely difficult for cost managers to estimate the exact cost of the project. This leads to poor decision-making and significant cost overruns.

With an automated cost estimation feature, 5-Dimensional Building Information Modeling helps project managers get precise cost-loaded schedules. The real-time parametric data enables quick readjustment of cost to changes in design and enables cost managers to prepare accurate budgets for the project.

It helps save time spent on manual quantification and mitigates errors in the final cost. With 5D BIM, you can even make the required changes to the design to keep the cost of the project as close to the budget as possible.

  2.  It Facilitates Faster Quantity Take-Offs

Quantity take-off consumes a lot of time during cost estimation and budget preparation. By automating and live-linking material quantities and cost, 5D BIM helps project managers make quick cost estimations. It leads to a significant reduction in errors and helps save both time and money. In fact, it has been proved that BIM can help save at least 80% of the time taken to generate a cost estimate. 

Quick access to costs and budget allows you to focus on other project-specific activities and components for improved plant design and construction.

   3. It Provides Accurate Cost Calculations Too

Water treatment plants are complex and may undergo constant design alterations. This leads to several complications and often makes it difficult for EPC companies to estimate the actual budget of the project. Also, without accurate cost estimations, project managers find it difficult to bid optimally too.

5D BIM allows gives the Plant Engineers the opportunity to design various cost prototypes in multiple complex combinations as per the client’s requirement for superior cost comparisons and real-time adjustments. It not only helps them to keep the cost under control but also allows them to bring greater value to the table and win bids or projects as per the proposal estimates.

   4. It Facilitates Improved Decision Making

It Ensures Information Modeling allows project managers to understand how even the smallest change in the design will influence the scheduling and budgeting of the project. With accurate Bill of Material (BOM) and other construction documentation in hand, EPCs can iterate multiple design ideas to fortify their cost estimation and budget analysis efforts. 

     5.    It Ensures Minimum Clashes, Maximum         Stakeholder Collaboration

The construction of a water treatment plant is a multi-stage process. It involves multiple stakeholders at various levels. For superior collaboration and on-budget construction of WTPs, it is important that all clashes are resolved before the initiation of the construction process.

By eliminating design and workflow clashes, 5D BIM helps cost managers prepare accurate cost estimations. It allows them to bid more efficiently and stay with their plans throughout the lifecycle of project development.

Wrapping Up…

5D BIM offers you the easiest way to bring unprecedented efficiencies to your WTP design and construction. It helps you to control the cost and make way for superior design and construction. That’s why today more and more cost managers are embracing 5D BIM to schedule and budget their WTP models, win tender approvals, and construct superior water treatment plans with improved facility management.

So while the whole industry is quickly adopting this revolutionary technology, make sure you are not left behind. Harness the power of Five-Dimensional Building Information Modeling to make your construction process more efficient and accurate. Outsource 5D BIM services to Enginerio and evaluate the accurate costs of your project for bidding,

Here are some of the top advantages of outsourcing 5D BIM Services to us:

• • Revit Modeling done by Water Treatment Plant Engineering experts

• • Our experts understand all the Technologies and Equipment used in Water Treatment Plants

• • Improved BIM models at various Levels of Development (LOD) – 100 to 500

• • Detailed quantity take-off and material cost estimation through detailed BIM models

• • Enhanced collaboration among various project stakeholders for improved decision-making

• • Improved material procurement based on updated material lists

• • Affordable prices and plans, without any compromise on quality

• • Accurate conversion of 2D and 3D designs to 5D BIM models as per the project requirements

• • Complete data privacy and confidentiality

So what are you waiting for? Connect with us today and make your construction processes leaner and way more efficient. We can help you make the most of technology!