Abstract
This chapter presents a unified model for building. It is commonly recognized that the time-honored procedure for preparing an architectural design for building on site is inefficient. Each member of a team of consultant professionals makes an independently documented contribution. For a typical project involving an architect and structural, electrical, mechanical and public services engineers there will be at least five separate sets of general-arrangement drawings, each forming a model of the building, primarily illustrating one discipline but often having to include elements of others to make the drawing readable. Both during their parallel evolution and later, when changes have to be made during the detailed design and production drawing stages, it is difficult and time consuming to keep all versions coordinated. The idea of solving this problem by using a common computer-based model which all members of the project team can directly contribute to is surely a universally assumed goal among all those involved in computer-aided building production.
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