Tuesday, February 3, 2015

B4 - Week 5 - Project Description

For the term project of this course, my group and I have choose to deal with the integration of an existing project (Senior design project of my other two teammates) with BIM. I do not know yet how really the project is because I did not work on it, but Hang Wang wrote a clear description of their senior design project in his post and I will work and spend time on it with them in the next weeks. Since the Senior design team already built a Revit model of their project, the goal of this project will be to define which of the features that Revit, its plug-ins and other software offer can be used to improve the model. One of these possibilities is the structural analysis through other software. We aim to create a new structural model of the building with all the necessary loads combinations. Another one is to make a database where many of the information related to the building are collected, so as all the building components can be found easily in a clear and organized database. Using the structural analysis software and the database, we aim to improve the project and put it in relation with the “design part” of intelligent building. There are many other functions that BIM related software can do, one that is important for me is the energetic consumption analysis and/or the daylight analysis, we did not discussed it yet, but I believe it could be useful for my group mates and their project. These analyses could be done with the help of BIM model importing the model in other software as Dialux or BSim in order to have a realistic idea of the energy consumptions or of the internal environment comfort for the users, before constructing the building.


At the end, as Hang wrote, we are going to analyse the pros and cons of the new BIM design comparing it with the current one. We will write a report for keeping track of what we are doing and we will prepare a final presentation to show our work to the other teams. 

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