Chapter 10What the Future Holds for Design Coordination 10.0 Executive Summary With advancements in software and hardware technology, our current building information modeling (BIM)-based design coordination processes will likely drastically…
Chapter 8BIM-Based Design Coordination in Other Industry Sectors 8.0 Executive Summary Much of what has been described so far is based on experiences in commercial construction projects. However, many of…
Chapter 7Specific Guidelines for Subcontractors and Fabricators 7.0 Executive Summary The process of coordinating designs involves first detailing a designer’s or engineer’s design into a fabrication model (i.e., LOD 400…
Chapter 9BIM Teaching Considerations 9.0 Executive Summary This chapter describes the experience and lessons learned from a University of Texas at Austin course on building information modeling (BIM) designed to…
Chapter 5Specific Guidelines for General Contractors and the VDC Coordination Team 5.0 Executive Summary The VDC coordination team is usually part of the general contractor (GC) and manages the entire…
Chapter 6Specific Guidelines for Architects and Engineers 6.0 Executive Summary Designers, including architects, engineers, architectural engineers, and design consultants, are responsible for generating a design model, which serves as the…
CHAPTER 11Schedules and Tags To begin, I want to clarify something specific for the people who have been using AutoCAD Architecture: you don’t need to tag an item in order…
CHAPTER 12Detailing Simply put, if detailing doesn’t work, then you’ll use Revit only as a schematic design application. It’s imperative that you can detail in Revit efficiently. When firms fail…
CHAPTER 8Structural Items Well, we can’t avoid the topic of structure forever. Because we need to consider our structure from pretty much the beginning of the project, I had better…
CHAPTER 10Stairs, Ramps, and Railings A whole chapter just for stairs, ramps, and railings? You bet! If you think about it, there could be hundreds of combinations of stair and…