There are three major challenges in the current preliminary budgeting process for engineering quantities in China. First, the workload for budgeting personnel is generally excessive. Second, the accuracy of engineering quantity calculations is often insufficient. Third, there is significant redundancy in these calculations. What advantages does BIM-based engineering quantity and cost management software offer to address these issues? Let’s explore them one by one.
1. Facilitating Cost Control in the Early Design Stages
For owners and designers, QC and CM systems built on BIM platforms automate the calculation and application of engineering quantities. This enables cost engineers to promptly provide feedback on the costs of design schemes to both designers and owners, supporting cost control early in the design phase. In contrast, traditional quantity calculations typically take too long to deliver timely cost impact feedback.
2. Dramatically Reducing the Basic Workload of Budget Personnel
BIM-based systems relieve budget personnel from the tedious and complex task of basic calculations. This frees up their time and energy to focus on more valuable activities in cost management, such as monitoring and analyzing market prices for labor and machinery, assessing the financial and market environment impacts on project investment throughout its lifecycle, and researching and forecasting cost risks associated with engineering projects.
3. High Precision and Stability in Engineering Quantities
Because the process from model input to quantity output and integration with the CM system involves almost no manual intervention, and due to BIM’s lossless information flow, the accuracy of engineering quantities is fundamentally improved compared to mainstream auxiliary quantity calculation software currently available on the market.
4. Enabling Data Sharing Throughout the Project Lifecycle, Saving Significant Resources
BIM facilitates data sharing across the entire project lifecycle and can effectively accommodate design changes. This capability saves considerable manpower and resources. A BIM-based engineering quantity calculation and cost management system ensures transparency and sharing of engineering quantities and all associated entity data. Designers, construction units, commissioning agencies, contractors, and supervisory parties can uniformly access engineering BIM data, promoting data transparency and openness. This greatly ensures information symmetry among all stakeholders, saving substantial time, labor, and materials.
From these points, it is clear that engineering quantity and cost management software based on BIM platforms offers significant and practical benefits in quantity calculation and cost control.
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