The main objective for us during this unit is to properly understanding the process of inter-disciplinary collaboration and how using different methods, especially through BIM software, can maximise the running and overall end result of a project, from design through to construction.
The picture below, extracted from the Week 1 Lecture, shows part of how the building industry is progressing and how the use of digital collaboration tools is allowing better work-flow between the involved parties.
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| Source: BEB212 Lecture Week 1 |
These particular 'steps' are what we are focusing on primarily through the semester. In the image, the step shown as '2A' is where most practices currently stand, with multiple people (different professions) using and extracted information off a model file, making changes then relaying the information back to the primary modeler (usually the architect) to change. The next step, 2B, is where more professionals need to be at, with a two way approach the modelling process, taking info from the model, changing it, then feeding it directly back into the model themselves.
By having multiple disciplines contributing to the one model simultaneously, a much broader range of information can be stored within the model, this is the basis for BIM.
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| Source: BEB212 Lecture Week 1 |
Using these information-rich models can enable designers, engineers and surveyors to perform detailed analysis on the building well before any actual construction takes place.
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| Source: BEB212 Lecture Week 1 |
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