Integration between BIM and Agent-based simulation for the 4.0 detailed design

Abstract

The construction industry, affected by a persistent crisis, has in the innovation provided by the digital revolution the opportunity to make the whole sector more efficient. These opportunities are not so much inherent in the tools, as in the innovative methods of process management, linked to the development of Artificial Intelligence techniques. The article therefore presents the development of a prototype of integration between Autonomous Agents and BIM: the result is the simulation of design alternatives, according to the different possibilities of optimizing the available resources. In this way, in the detailed design both the design verification phase and the organization of field, from the virtual model to the construction, becomes proactive.