Building Information Modeling
Engr. Faisal Rehman
Assistant Professor
UET Peshawar
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Definition
• The US National Building Information Model Standard Project
Committee has the following definition:
• “Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of
physical and functional characteristics of a facility. A BIM is a shared
knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable
basis for decisions during its life-cycle; defined as existing from
earliest conception to demolition.”
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Sharing Knowledge
• Information is shared among:
• Owner
• Architect/Engineer
• Surveyor
• Contractor
• Information contains:
• Budgeted Cost
• Design (Planning, Requirements, Purpose of Building, Capacity, No. of Stories,
Bedrooms, Washrooms, Drawings, Plumbing and Electric Work)
• Land information (Area, Location, Soil Condition, Water requirement,
Surrounding Environment and history, past earthquake, Measurements)
• Material.
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What are 6D/7D?
• Building information modeling extends this beyond 3D, augmenting the
three primary spatial dimensions (width, height and depth) with time as
the fourth dimension (4D) and cost as the fifth (5D). More recently there
are also references to a sixth dimension (6D) representing building
environmental and sustainability aspects, and a seventh dimension (7D) for
through-life facility management, although there are conflicting definitions
(6D BIM).
• BIM therefore covers more than just geometry. It also covers spatial
relationships, light analysis, geographic information, and quantities and
properties of building components (for example, manufacturers' details).
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What BIM Contains?
(Objects, Tools, Parametric, Attributes)
• BIM involves representing a design as combinations of "objects" – vague and
undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented (like
the shape of a room), that carry their geometry, relations and attributes.
• BIM design tools allow extraction of different views from a building model for
drawing production and other uses.
• These different views are automatically consistent, being based on a single
definition of each object instance.
• BIM software also defines objects parametrically; that is, the objects are defined
as parameters and relations to other objects, so that if a related object is
amended, dependent ones will automatically also change.
• Each model element can carry attributes for selecting and ordering them
automatically, providing cost estimates as well as material tracking and ordering.
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Who work in BIM?
• Professionals from Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC).
• BIM enables a virtual information model to be handed from the
design team (architects, landscape architects, surveyors, civil,
structural and building services engineers, etc.) to the main
contractor and subcontractors and then on to the owner/operator;
• Each professional adds discipline-specific data to the single shared
model.
• This reduces information losses.
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Who Manages BIM?
• A BIM manager (also sometimes defined as a virtual design-to-
construction VDC, project manager –VDCPM) manages BIM.
• The BIM manager is retained by a design build team on the client's
behalf from the pre-design phase onwards.
• In order to develop and to track the object-oriented BIM against
predicted and measured performance objectives.
• And supporting multi-disciplinary building information models that
drive analysis, schedules, take-off and logistics
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Managements in BIM
• Cost management
• Construction management
• Project management
• Facility operation
• Application in green building
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BIM in Construction Management
• Project stakeholders are challenged to deliver successful projects despite tight budgets, limited manpower,
accelerated schedules, and limited or conflicting information.
• The significant disciplines such as architectural, structural and Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP)
designs should be well coordinated, as two things can’t take place at the same place and time.
• Building Information Modeling aids in collision detection at the initial stage, identifying the exact location of
discrepancies.
• The BIM concept envisages prior to actual physical construction
• Reduces uncertainty, improve safety, work out problems, and simulate and analyze potential impacts.
• Sub-contractors can input critical information to pre-fabricate or pre-assemble some systems off-site.
• Waste can be minimized on-site and prod delivered on a just-in-time basis rather than being stock-piled on-
site.
• Quantities and shared properties of materials can be extracted easily.
• Scopes of work can be isolated and defined.
• BIM also prevents errors by enabling conflict or 'clash detection' whereby the computer model visually
highlights to the team where parts of the building (e.g.:structural frame and building services pipes or ducts)
may wrongly intersect.
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BIM Development in Different Countries
• Most of the countries adopted the technique on BIM in their policy at
government level from 2012 and onwards.
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HW01 Tasks
• Email me today on [email protected] for following info:
• Your Full Name
• Registration #
• Class #
• Cell #
• Email ID that you use frequently
• One paragraph summary
• Subject of email will be HW1
• Summary of Lecture 01 in notebook copy. (definition, explanation, history, uses, 7D)
• Buy a project notebook. BIM lectures and work will be noted on that single copy alone with no other course work. Copy type as
described in class.
• Questions Answers will be in next lecture.
• Bring Laptops in next class.
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