BIM in FRENCH SMES, from innovation to necessity

The BIM arrives in great strength in France and in Europe. This process has been mainly
recognized for its capacity to energize the building market by sustainable means and the
digitization of the current work system. For the SMEs (A business needs to have fewer than
249 employees to be considered an SME)., this vast development site proves to be a
difficult shift to implement but one that is not to missed in order to gain competitiveness
and be able to compete with markets that remained until now undiscovered. Being able to
keep updated on the BIM in the view to understand its strategic stakes and to track its
development, expansion, and regulatory framework in France will enable you to decide
more efficiently on the strategy of BIM you wish to implement in your business. By
defining the current state of your business and by setting targets and timeframes, you
undertake a management change. Employees and stakeholders are the key elements of
success of the BIM implementation. In order to assess the progress of the BIM maturity in
the SMEs, a survey has been given out to several French stakeholders thus allowing us to
have a good general vision of the innovation in the SMEs. The results of the survey
conducted as part of this article, highlights a real enthusiasm from the participants of this
sector, but with some concern and questioning.