3D / Building Information Modeling
Fire Tower’s range of services includes Building Information Modeling (BIM), which provides comprehensive three-dimensional renderings of a structure and its specific components. This process is especially valuable to our clients because timber frame segments, and often SIP panels, are precut, making design accuracy and consistency 
vitally important to a timber framing project’s success.
Fire Tower achieves those superior levels of accuracy by generating 3D models in the following formats:
- Autocad
- Sketchup
- Dietrich's
- Cadwork
- Axonometric sketches
Before a single piece of wood is cut, BIM allows us to create vivid and meticulous depictions of the renderings, floor plans, sections and elevations, in effect giving our clients a virtual walk-through of their finished structures. The benefits of Fire Tower’s BIM services include 
:
- Conflict identification/resolution
- Spatial visualization/exploration of alternative framing concepts
- Creation/coordination of construction docs
- Coordination of connection details with fabricators/timber framers
- Automatic generation of CNC files for fabrication
- Efficient material tracking
- Take-offs facilitation
- Leveraged structural analysis
In addition, Fire Tower maximizes these value-added services by offering BIM services at 75 percent of the typical engineering rate.