Building Information Modeling Protocol Exhibit by the American Institute of Architects

With the rising cost of maintenance as it pertains to facilities, it’s important to have policies, procedures, or systems in place to help counteract or prevent unnecessary problems in the future. Tools such as Building Management Software (BMS) or Building

During concept design and developed design stages, BIM technology and processes were used to develop and establish building performance and the basis of design in accordance with the client’s standards. The models were required to be interoperable with analytic tools for, including but not limited to, building envelope, orientation, daylighting, energy consumption, Building Management System (BMS), renewable energy strategies, life cycle cost analysis, and spatial requirements (Andrian X Sanchez 2015). Thus the main stakeholders of the PCH project established a series of BIM-related objectives:

Communicate, cooperate and coordinate with: any other designers (including the principal designer) so that all designs are compatible and ensure health and safety, both during the project and beyond

There are 25 major specialties in engineering that are recognized by professional societies. In any one of those 25 specialties, the goal of the engineer is the same. The goal is to be able to come up with a cost effective design that aids people in the tasks they face each day. Whether it be the coffee machine in the morning or the roads and highways we travel, or even the cars we travel in, it was all an idea that started with an engineer. Someone engineered each idea to make it the best solution to a problem. Even though engineer 's goals are similar, there are many different things that engineers do within their selected field of engineering. This paper will focus on the architectural field of engineering.

The aim of this Literature Review is to gain an understanding of what Building Information Modelling (BIM) is, what SMEs are, establish the importance of BIM, why BIM should be implemented and to explore the key issues associated with the adoption and implementation of BIM by SMEs in a live construction environment.

Sattinen and Bradford stated that that BIM is compatible with estimating software like Innovaya composer, where the software converts the BIM files. It makes the files compatible with the estimation software like Timberline and the quantity data (Sattineni & Bradford, n.d). The Innovaya’s visual BIM and quantification products make the cost estimator to imagine entire building model in a 3D cost-oriented environment performs quantifications and finally adds up the construction data. According to Thurairajah

Before any construction works can commence, a design is carried out by a range of stakeholders. This design will show the project by the use of drawings, plans and the specification however it will also contain the method of construction and the materials that have been agreed.

Building Information Modeling “BIM”, is an intelligent, model based process for planning, designing, building and managing buildings and infrastructures. BIM is a very powerful way for designers and architects to lay out building plans and designs. BIM is not just single piece of software or model, but a system of information processing and collaboration, with data fixed within the model. BIM begins with a 3D digital model of the building or infrastructure that is being planned out. However, the model that BIM provides is much more than just a 3D model. BIM technology allows for the project managers, designers and architects to see virtual equivalents of all the buildings parts that are going to be used throughout the entire construction process of the building. BIM brings together all of the information about every element of a building, and stores all the data in one place. It allows anyone working on the project to access the data in order to integrate different aspects of the design more effectively. BIM reduces the risk of mistakes which in turn helps to stay on budget and enhance efficiency.

Building information modeling is a coordinated set of processes which is supported by technology for digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of places. It is a process that relies on information rich models to help owners and Architectural/Engineering/Construction (AEC) service providers to more efficiently plan, design, construct and manage building and infrastructure projects. Building information modeling is now becoming more popular and transforming the global AEC industry. The usage of BIM now is on high rise because it provides greater

It is generally accepted that inadequately organized construction information initiates the loss of time, high cost and inconsistency, which indicates the significance of BIM standards

The introduction of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and tools into the construction industry made a rapid revolution in this field. BIM can bring a complete digital representation of a building with a fully analyzed data. Introduction of this models are very much helpful in construction of the real building. By creating a BIM

Building information modelling (BIM) is a new technology that is undoubtedly reshaping the construction industry as we know it. BIM is designed to change the way in which we communicate.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) innovation park, which has been started in 2005, is located in Gaston in the UK (Yao and Short, 2013). It provides a space for the demonstration of sustainable buildings, landscape designs and hundreds of innovative low carbon materials and technologies (BRE, 2012a). The goal of these buildings is to achieving a low impact on the environment, but a high quality of life and reducing the CO2 emission (ibid.). One home on the BRE park named Sigma Home (Fig.1) is the first home in the UK designed to Code 5 for Sustainable Homes(BRE, 2012). This house was built by the Stewart Milne Group in 2007, then refurbished by Rexel Energy Solutions and the Stewart Milne Group in 2011(ibid.). The

Internationally, code authorities perceive the requirement for an advanced, state-of-the-art building code tending to the outline and establishment of building systems through necessities underscoring execution. The International Building Code®, in this 2012 release, is intended to address these issues through model code regulations that defend the general well being and security in all groups, extensive and little.

Through this rule-based design strategy, the form of the building is easy to change by modifying the constraints of the parameters. The time cost of the model could save because the whole model does not need to rebuild. By parametric design, we could use the characteristics of Building Information Modeling (BIM) elements to response the data from the environmental analysis, such as solar radiation and wind velocity. Considering BIM providing a corporation system for information to share and use by architects, which not only could build three-dimensional models, predict the performance of the building, but also enable to analyze the environment, BIM already become one of the most significant computational design tools for contemporary architecture. The author uses sun shades as an example to show the approach used by designers to complete a façade design step by step and the relationships between analytic data, BIM and different software, such as Revit, Ecotect, and Excel. Also, the limitations of parametric design are mention in the