Category: BIM

A New Paradigm in Designing Sustainable Floating Architecture

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Floating architectures are the buildings designed for living or working purposes. These architectural structures float on the surface of the water and can be moored in a permanent location. They are equipped with their independent electricity, water, sewage and gas systems which functions through a connection of permanent supply lines laid between the floating building and land. Sometimes these architectures also have a self-supporting system for themselves.

The floating architecture has emerged as one of the most sustainable building types when sustainable factors are put into place. This building technique is said to resolve many issues regarding the need for additional land for construction purposes in places such as Europe and Asia. Here, are some of the floating architectures that are said as the recent inventions and can be used as the replicable models across the globe.

  • Houseboats: Inspired by ships and fishing vessels, livable houseboats were made. These floating houses resembled a lot of a land-based property. These houseboats are as good as the land homes regarding design & construction and are strong & buoyant enough to withstand the forces of water.
  • Amphibious Dwellings: These are the dwelling types that stay on the land but are capable of floating. When the water level rises suddenly, the house is lifted by it. Such dwellings have pontoons or hollow basements that keep these buildings dry.

This construction mechanism is gaining significance with the rise in public awareness for the development of waterfront areas. The technology opens not only new construction grounds but also brings new opportunities for water as the renewable source of energy.

What’s New in AUTOCAD CIVIL 3D 2018

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AutoCAD Civil 3D is a documentation and design solution that supports BIM workflows. It also helps engineers, drafters, and technicians to understand project performance better. Users can also streamline time-consuming tasks such as pressure pipes, parcel layout, gravity, and corridor design with some tools and customization design standards. Following are the latest features and benefits:

Pipe sizing and analysis

The changes are introduced in the area of resizing of pipes and resetting inverts. In addition, new feature includes computing of energy and hydraulic grade lines in accordance to HEC-22 2009 standards.

Dynamic offset profiles

Software now enables creation of dynamic offset profiles by using cross slope. It is also possible to create dynamic offset profiles by using the same command such as for offset alignments. Profile geometry offset using a default cross slope, can be modified by editing properties of profiles.

Plan and profile sheet generation

It is now possible to create plan and profile sheet by including more than one plan/profile views on one sheet. Take help of AutoCAD Civil 3D production tools for producing construction documents through drawings. Therefore, you can easily create profile/plan, plan(s), and sections sheets.

Relative Elevation Feature Lines

One can easily obtain feature lines elevations from surface and so, when the surface is updated, the features line is updated. Thus, the update behavior of a feature line varies depending on whether the feature line was set to be relative or just set to be created for absolute elevations.

Connected alignments

There is a new linked alignment and profile connecting two intersecting alignments and profiles. The connected alignment feature can be used to create new alignment and profiles that transition between their profiles. The feature is efficient to create an exit ramp, a merging or diverging road, a curb return, or perhaps for connect existing road to proposed road.

Corridor Overlap Resolutions

In consideration to corridor cleanup issues that are not cleaned up automatically, the new feature is introduced to resolve corridor bowties. Elaborately, at some of the locations on corridor models, the links can now cross each other that result into bowtie-like configurations.

Traverse Editor

Now, you can use the Traverses collection for management of existing traverses within the network. Creation of Traverses from data in a field book file or by using the Traverses Editor for manually entering survey data. For example, you can create data or hand notes from the site plan.

Label Property Set Data

Use Property Set tab within the standard label setup process for adding custom properties to label styles. So, you can now add custom data to AutoCAD Civil 3D 2018 object labels with the use of property sets.

AECOsim: Software Delivering High Performance Building with Confidence

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AECOsim Building Designer provides information-rich models for design, analysis, and documentation of buildings. The software is helpful to communicate design and bridge barriers between geographically distributed teams. It provides advancement of BIM so that you can deliver high-performance buildings with confidence in the designer, tools, and necessary deliverables. Following are the innovative capabilities that enhance overall project quality and generate ROI:

High-level Building Performance

Users will be able to explore and make informed decisions with the visualization of models. The software will also benefit as it resolves clashes due to built-in clash detection. In addition to it, users can explore a range of scenarios, performance solar exposure, shading analysis, and predict real-world performance.

Interoperability

Users can make use of existing data available across multiple formats and work on any other project. Thus, the model allows team members to share and communicate regarding any complex project data no matter what is authority application.

Trusted Deliverables

The software delivers reliable documents in no time because of the efficiency, robust design and production management. With AECOsim, it will become easy to review and communicate markups of models as well as documentation by unifying production environment.

Multi-Discipline

AECOsim Building Designer comes up with a number of capabilities such as effectively design, construct, document, analyze, and view the building of any complexity and size. It empowers teams to make informed decisions and enhance communication from the design phase through construction. In addition to it, it improves collaboration between electrical, mechanical, and structural engineers.

Hence, with AECOsim building designer, you can easily deliver sustainable and high-performance building within no time.

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AECOsim Vs Revit Architecture

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Many organizations have been using Building Information Software (BIM Tools) across teams of engineers, project managers as well as cost consultants in designing infrastructures. Revit and AECOsim are two renowned BIM tools in the market. Choosing one among the two is a difficult task.

 

Why Revit? Why AECOsim?
  • Revit is easy to use and thus to master it takes a short time.
  • The “seamless” interaction has made Revit an industry standard.
  • With a good customer support, Revit is often ahead of AECOsim.
  • Being an industry standard, Revit holds more employment opportunities.
  • AECOsim is more robust and has more capabilities compared to Revit.
  • Coordination with navigator becomes easier with AECOsim.
  • The software and training expense are cheaper than Revit.
  • Unlike Revit, AECOsim is more interoperable and scalable.

 

Both the products have been designed to offer supreme designing capabilities. However, when it comes to market reach, they have their own strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the selection of the right tool depends on the field of work and the requirements.

What is 5D BIM?

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What is the Significance of 5D BIM in Construction Industry?

BIM is significant to enhance the productivity of architects, managers, and contractors during the construction phase. Furthermore, the people involved in the construction industry could not miss out to what they can get out of BIM.

The pre-construction phase involves owners and architects discussing the design, infrastructure and several changes required in the existing model. Therefore, the discussion takes place over the rough sketch which is ineffective to determine the real requirements and cannot fill the gap between conceptual design and final one. Relating cost data for estimating the cost and similar planning is called 5D BIM. The cost includes purchasing, installing, running, and renewal cost. 5th Dimension BIM (Building Information Modeling) is efficient and will help in extracting information from BIM ready virtual building models.

It is imperative to observe that pre-construction time involves unplanned, insufficient information that could stretch the time taken for construction and increases cost. Nevertheless, pre-construction time and developing of design is very important as it is about meeting the requirements of the owner, cost estimates and completing the project efficiently. 5D BIM will support the object of owners, architects, builders, and engineers to build the design and carry out cost estimation process more effectively.

Here are more benefits of 5D BIM for the construction industry:

  • When information related to exact scheduling of each activity and cost is easily available then contractors cannot miss any deadline. Reworks are minimized and each worker is aware of his/her work that led to the completion of the project on time.
  • Since cloud technology is added to BIM, contractors and project managers will be able to access data anywhere and convey it to subordinates for the changes in design or plan.
  • Making alterations in the information according to project requirements is possible with 5D BIM. Extracting of meaningful and reliable information is the objective to avoid any discrepancy.
  • The proper allocation of information in graphs and data sheets helps managers and owners to utilize the information and meet the schedule on time. Therefore, every equipment is put to definite use in the right manner and increases the efficiency of all the resources.

5D BIM fits perfect for design-build delivery as it can retrieve the building components from the built models and put in comparison against current cost structure. This feature will help in saving a lot of time spent on calculating entire project cost. In addition, when single equipment is eliminated or replaced, the revised cost will appear automatically.

Conclusively, with all the requirements lined up, 5D BIM is a profound intelligent to win projects and optimize pre-construction work phase. The highly informative rich intelligent models of BIM are upright means to display features, commitments, facts & figures, and any loopholes. Thus, owners, engineers, architects, and contractors are sure to benefit by the most befitting BIM Model in the construction industry.

A brief History behind BIM

The term BIM emerged in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry back in the year 1987. Building industry executive, Phil Bernstein was the first to use this tool when he was working for Autodesk- an American multinational corporation that focused on 3D design software. Furthermore, the term BIM became popular with the help of industry analyst Jerry Laiserin as a tool for digital representation in the building industry. As the tool was observed with some exceptional and winning characteristics, Laiserin emphasized BIM as the description for the next generation of design software loaded with the powerful features as CAD tool to generate reasonably clear and technically advanced commercial approaches. BIM also gained popularity as Autodesk was already using this as a building industry strategy.

Moreover, BIM became extremely popular because of its hi-end features and accuracy in generating technical and commercial building designs. This is probably the reason why BIM is used across the world. Several organizations across the globe offer guidance about the best practices for the BIM technology meeting industry standards motivating professionals to use it.