4D planning is hugely beneficial in terms of planning the completion of various project components to maximize efficiency on the actual project site.

 

Everyone can easily visualize and understand how a project will appear through 4D planning making it an effective communications tool for project management to present a project and its components to project clients and stakeholders. The efficiency generated through 4D planning can streamline the overall costs base of various project components to increase work efficiency capacity and reduce or eliminate unnecessary project liabilities.

4D planning allows project teams to easily determine a more efficient and logical approach in planning their various project efforts to maximize their on-site efficiency and effectively reduce or eliminate project liabilities to help eliminate last-minute on-site design revisions and work re-scheduling to speed a project's overall completion.

4D planning involves sharing time-related information that is associated with the different components of a project into one information model.  4D planning can bring all project teams together to improve project productivity, reduce project risks, and allow project teams to collaborate more efficiently with each other and includes specific elements of a project such as details in the various lead-times of its various components, development, and installation period, and the sequencing of a project's various components into one easily usable data for management and field supervisory teams to speed up the progress of a project and produce high-quality valuable project designs.

In 4D planning, the process of developing a project information model adds various project scheduling data on a specific project component is to generate precise project program information and step-by-step visuals of a project's ongoing development and by linking various components of project component cost data into a shared information model accurate project planning estimates can be generated for use in project management and operations.

4D planning can provide project teams with an accurate graphic visualization of the development of a new project for assessing the feasibility and value of a project for project investors to quickly gain confidence in the viability of a project by demonstrating its entirety in detail so clients and project teams can quickly understand the progress of each component of a project.

Through the process of creating graphical and non-graphical information in a shared digital space used as a common data environment, 4D planning allows various project teams to easily share various information data on the different stages of a project's progress. The 4D planning system can bring both the project team and clients closer to realizing the value of a project to their investment planning.

4D planning enables project field planners to quickly develop accurate programs for each stage of their projects from one source of unified data with specific project activities and components within can be linked to various project data systems through their graphical representations which quickly displays various scheduling data of different project components, into an easy-to-read and understand, graphic model.

4D planning can accurately display various 3D visuals of a project’s development so project teams can quickly visualize how a project's assets are utilized in a virtual and graphical format. 4D planning add value to the time saved on a project through accurate modeling of project information displaying how a project is to proceed.