BIM provides useful digital descriptions in various stages from design, planning to maintenance, which benefits not only to professionals like architects and surveyors, but also gives a clear picture to stakeholders like building owners and prospective users.

With the effective improvement of project management, BIM plays a great role in private and public housing construction. Starting from scratch, BIM provides visual assessment to housing construction planning. For instance, it gives architects valuable information like sun shading direction and area, airflow and ventilation, to better plan for the living environment for future residents.

In the process of designing building facilities, BIM serves as a visualised tool to present complex construction like fire services pump room, underground utilities and pipes in ceiling void. Changes of design could be made easily once the problem is spotted. Clashes of design and planning could be detected at early stage, rather than resolving problems in half way of the project.

BIM works impressively on large-scale construction by combining loads of data and photos into a 3D model, a much easier way to review and understand sophisticated construction. Difficulties and challenges on site could be identified swiftly with the help of BIM. It could run simulation of site operation like demolition to find out potential problems, which enhances safety to workers.

In post-construction stage, BIM acts as useful tool to improve facilities management. In the case of shopping mall managment, prospective tenant could take a visual look of the shop before making decision to rent. BIM keeps a combined record for repair and maintenance, meanwhile retrieving facilities documents could be made much easier within the system.