Abstract
In Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) collaboration, exchange requirements (ERs) vary in different projects with different platforms. In order to ensure the completeness and accuracy of data sharing and exchange for structural engineering in collaborative design, an ER-based delivery method was proposed to improve the delivery of structural design information. First, a process map of structural design was developed based on Information Delivery Manual (IDM). Within this process map, an ER Matrix of structural design was proposed to define information required by other disciplines at different stages. This matrix was composed of a set of required structural objects and their attributes, which were mapped to related Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data. The mapping between the ER Matrix and IFC-based structural model data was implemented by an exchange model generation algorithm. Furthermore, a delivery tool was developed to define the ER Matrix in two ways, including user interface and XML-based language. A practical project was used to illustrate the utility of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method using IFC is beneficial for structural information delivery.
Highlights
As an information technology revolution in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been widely applied in collaborative design to improve the quality and productivity of building projects (Gilkinson, Kiviniemi, Raju, & Chapman, 2015; Juan, Lai, & Shih, 2017)
It is noted that (a) collaborative design mainly focuses on physical models of different disciplines, so there are no parameters of structural analysis in this exchange requirements (ERs) Matrix; (b) the current ER Matrix focuses on the delivery of structural design information on civil engineering projects, and the undefined ERs for other domains or projects need to be further analyzed to form the new ER Matrixes
Exchange requirements of structural design vary at different stages
Summary
As an information technology revolution in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been widely applied in collaborative design to improve the quality and productivity of building projects (Gilkinson, Kiviniemi, Raju, & Chapman, 2015; Juan, Lai, & Shih, 2017). IDM defines a set of information that must/ should be contained in the exchange models for specific purposes, and MVD provides a guideline for specifying how to map exchange requirements (ERs) to particular IFC data (See, Karlshøj, & Davis, 2012). In the AEC industry, some existing commercial software tools can be used for BIM collaboration, but they may not be able to support specific user-defined ERs of information delivery (Rezgui, Beach, & Rana, 2013). Users need to build exchange models with different objects and attributes for specific projects Given these challenges, it is necessary to develop a common method for the automatic mapping between required information and original model data according to user-defined exchange requirements. A practical project was presented to demonstrate the feasibility and validity of the proposed method
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