Abstract
Building Information Modelling (BIM) enables the Civil engineers professional to accomplish the digital requiremnts and also the integration and collaboration on the elaboration of projects and maintenance of buildings. BIM methodology is currently the main subject of investigation and application in the construction industry and the education have been exploring the introduction of this issue in curricular programs. The students of civil engineering and architecture, as future professionals, must updated their skills with the most recent innovative technology and knowledge. Several academies better classified within the architecture and engineer sector, were selected and its curricular programs were analyzed: the didactic strategies of inserting BIM teachings are similar in the main concept and practice, but depending of the expertize of the school, the aspects related to architecture, structures, construction or planning are deeper taught; the level cycles of introduction BIM (bachelor, master or postgraduate), the professional courses offered to architects and engineeres and the main subjects were discussed. The principal aim of the curricular research is the characterization of BIM education in distinct academies. A resume of actions and organization of topics that promotes an adequate updating of the students skills was achived, helping BIM educators in their activity.
Highlights
Building Information Modelling (BIM) concept and practice are currently the most relevant procedure in a large range of sectors in the construction industry
The present study present a curricular analyses among the most relevant Civil Engineering schools in Europe including Portuguese academies and journals articles concerning BIM teaching in some of
In bachelor cycle – The computer-aided drawing (CAD) unit concerns the use of CAD tools on the creation of technical drawing applied in civil engineering and a basic introduction to BIM methodology is presented with a practical component on the generation of the architectural and structural components of a BIM model (Figure 1)
Summary
Building Information Modelling (BIM) concept and practice are currently the most relevant procedure in a large range of sectors in the construction industry. The BIM tools available allow developing projects of buildings and infrastructures, planning the construction work or supporting the management activity of buildings, in a centralized, digital and collaborative way. The word BIM was adopted by commercial software houses for the construction industry and the advances in technology applied in BIM tools allows to develop better and efficient products (Vilutiene et al, 2019). Around the world BIM methodology have been adopted mainly in public buildings (Sampaio, 2018): In Europe the first countries in using the methodology were Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and they established some strategies and rules to support BIM collaborative environments (Muller et al, 2017), [8] (Ignatov et al, 2019). The construction domain have been experimented a speedily changing technology, supported in continuous advances, refinements or improvements, in a wide perspective of methodology of work, platform of collaboration or way of delivery projects, mostly concerning BIM.
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