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spatial properties.” (Kostura, 2009).
BIM software saves the structural information associated with the drawn beam – the
beam size, length, weight, and other relevant information including the 3D properties. In
addition, since the actual properties are available, areas where building components clash
can be picked up by the software. Intelligent documents have the ability to provide
material quantity data for the project (Smilow, 2007). Although the Building Information
Model is mostly conveyed in the form of a 3D visualization, it is merely a mechanism for
communicating the stored information in a concise and attractive format (Kostura, 2009).
1.4. Building Information Modeling in The United States
Although BIM has been on the market for a number of years, it has not been adopted
industry-wide to its full capacity. As of 2009, approximately half of industry
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