Benefit and Challenge of Integrating BIM With GIS In Iraqi Construction Projects

Abstract

Building management has become more complicated because there has been a growing number of people and Documentation involved. As a result, there can be several different formats and forms of information that need to be gathered, exchanged and recorded throughout the building process. That makes the need to develop the work of BIM and GIS together is very importance, when geographic information system (GIS) provides external modeling for city (map, geographic Information… etc.) and building information modeling (BIM) is providing internal modeling (3d modeling, material properties and its quantities, etc. for building. Also, GIS is an important tool for combining both spatial data and non-spatial data of the construction project in one environment. So, this study aims to highlight on these important techniques to interest from their features in the construction projects, in this paper shows the integration between BIM and GIS and shows benefit, challenge and motivation factor for adoption these techniques in Iraqi project sector. From the point of view, GIS will complement BIM to create a systemic platform for building management.