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Building Information Modeling concepts.
The proposed framework for dealing with design activities in a BIM-enabled environmentOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Building design process involves dealing with a lot of
information. With the advent of computers, many improvements were
made to this process and many of the manual processes associated with it
were automated. But this progress has been constrained by the limited
intelligence of computer applications in representing buildings and the
capability to extract the relevant information needed for design, causing
problems with conveying design intent, speed and accuracy. That led to
the development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology.
BlM involves the use of information rich models to simulate the design,
construction and operation of a facility in a more convenient way.
This research aims to explore the new and changed methods and activities
of design as affected by BIM. It presents a new theoretical framework of
dealing with design activities in the new BIM-enabled environment. This
was done through discussing traditional computer aids for design,
highlighting the limitations and inefficiencies in the design process under
a pre-BIM design environment. Next the main principles of BIM were
discussed highlighting the problems it addresses and what changes it may
cause in traditional projects’ duration and staff configuration. Then the
research deduced eleven BIM applications in architectural practice,
varying from academic experimentation phases to established
professional practice. Next the nature of the design process, the activities
it involves and the stages it goes through were investigated to produce a
map of design activities. Then the eleven BIM applications were
superimposed on the map of identified design activities, highlighting the
areas of change and improvement, producing a theoretical framework of
dealing with design activities in the a BIM-enabled design environment.
Finally three case studies were presented to illustrate the practical
implementation of the technology in the design process.