Abstract
Building Information Models (BIM) have revealed themselves as a good tool to support construction actions, due to their ability to store all the information in one digital model and to promote collaboration between all participants in a project. Teaching Civil Engineering requires a permanent updating of knowledge concerning procedures and technologies used in the construction industry. In this sense, the school should seek to adapt its curriculum to include innovative issues to support new technologies. So, in an educational context, the aim of the present work is to disseminate knowledge concerning the benefits provided when implementing BIM in several aspects within the construction activity. In a Civil Engineering school some topics of BIM application were developed by students within MSc researches. The text describes in detail some of the main topics, showing distinct use of BIM: Generation and use of a 4D/BIM model to support construction planning; coordination of construction project based on BIM methodology; conflict analysis based in an architectural 3D/BIM model. Several study cases were modelled and analyzed, confronting the BIM use with the traditional way when performing the same tasks, and consequently recommendations were carried out. This work contributed to demonstrate the advantages of employing BIM for building tasks purposes when compared with the traditional process, and in a didactic context the main objective is to add competitive skills in the training of future civil engineers.
Highlights
The text describes in detail some of the main topics, showing distinct use of Building Information Models (BIM): Generation and use of a 4D/BIM model to support construction planning; coordination of construction project based on BIM methodology; conflict analysis based in an architectural 3D/BIM model
This work contributed to demonstrate the advantages of employing BIM for building tasks purposes when compared with the traditional process, and in a didactic context the main objective is to add competitive skills in the training of future civil engineers
Research on the subject has exposed several objects of study covering BIM, from its origin to its application in the Construction sector, seeking to know the reasons for his development and how this methodology has been developed. The use of this methodology for the development of construction management emerged several situations that expose the benefits of using BIM
Summary
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is defined as the process of generating, storing, managing, exchanging, and sharing building information in an intero-. The parametric objects that forms the 3D BIM models, constitute a very significant advance as a support to the development of projects, because the 3D/BIM model is rich in information and each element is characterized as belonging to a class (architecture, structures and net services), allowing the automatic detection of conflicts. After each specialty has finished their respective work, the step in a BIM environment, is the detection of conflicts, which is the process of finding where the models go into shock: elements of distinct models occupying the same space This item analyzes a case study looking for conflicts between the structures and components of MEP, using BIM tools [11]. It helps the modeler to obtain a better MEP model but, normally, it is not sufficient (Figure 2)
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