Steel is an essential material for the construction industry; as a result, its consumption and production per capita have grown considerably, owing to population growth and increasing demands for industrialization in developing countries, among other factors. Steel offers certain advantages over other construction materials, such as low weight, adequate structural behaviors, a high degree of prefabrication, and increased construction speed. However, the use of steel as a construction material has increased the complexity of projects, particularly in terms of information management, because it is imperative to ensure quality and timely information for the different actors involved in the workflow. The inefficient use of information results in fragmentation during construction, to cope with such fragmentation, it is necessary to include building information modeling (BIM) that facilitate collaboration between the different actors involved in the building life cycle. BIM has been associated with improved productivity and cooperation among teams. However, the benefits of using BIM in the steel building process have not been explored comprehensively, even more when BIM does not exhibit continuity throughout the phases of a steel construction project; as a result, its benefits are curtailed. Therefore, there is a need to investigate, develop, and propose BIM integration that generate continuous communication, coordination and management between steel building phases, in order to ensure deliverables that conclude with a building that meets the initially established project requirements.The present PhD thesis proposes a BIM integration model called BIM for design, fabrication and erection in steel buildings (BIM-DFE) to improve communication, integration, comprehensible procurement processes, and production processes defined by critical stakeholders in the steel industry. These operating benefits can result in benefits for steelbuilding projects. Although this research is oriented to steel-building projects, the proposed BIM-DFE model can be extrapolated to different materials with similar processes such as concrete, wood or any prefabricated material for the construction industry.