BIM, Google SketchUp a 3D modeling interface and the ability to assign characteristics to objects in the design. A lot of designers prefer Google SketchUp early on because it’s such a facile tool. BIM tools mainstream design now has at least some capability to import models from SketchUp and to export simplified models out to it. That capability will soon carry more significance for projects because expects to release a SketchUp plug-in for the powerful energy plus modeling engine.

Google Sketchup is a very popular tool with designers during the early phases of a project, but the lines blur when to stop modeling in Sketchup and start designing in Building Information Modeling. This results in re-work and a duplicated effort, the designer continues to model, but so does the team.

SketchUp are especially useful for every design, a smart team working on sustainable design will start looking at energy models before even designing the building. Building information modeling through standard exchanges they can how to use everything from paper and pencil, Excel, Google Sketchup, web based BIM tools and model servers to create and interact in the BIM.

BIM allows Google sketch up for designers, in essence, to build electronically from the ground up. BIM offers industry and society a way to improve productivity and increase the speed by which we can design and construct buildings, Google sketch up For each building design, Building information modeling can store information related to all the components of the building. BIM is maturing to where we can take our concept on paper and build electronically and load the model with all the information and parameters.

Google SketchUp and BIM that provide the ability to undertake early stage performance analysis on the architect's model and then bring the model forward into a more detailed analysis environment without having to redraw it. The effect realization of this process will change the marketplace in and of itself. Through this relationship, the user can run the building loads analysis within the BIM environment and have the results populate the BIM database, which in this case means the peak heating and cooling loads become a part of the room information after the analysis is complete.

Google SketchUp technology allow better coordination between the simultaneous development of the 2D document and 3D model in BIM-

♦ The worksheet tool allows user to integrate consultant information easily into the model data

♦ Complex elements geometry allows more freedom with curving and slanted surfaces

♦ Interior elevations are continuously updated

♦ Faster navigation through the model