architecture BIM

1. Choose a design or engineering application that has no effective interface with a BIM design tool you use. Identify the types of information the BIM design tool needs to send to this application. 

2. Based on your chosen application from the previous question, what types of information might be returned to the BIM design tool as a result of running this application.

Consider the design of a simple object of your choice, such as a Lego sculpture. Define the IFC entities needed to represent the design. Check the description using an EXPRESS parser.

3. Choose one of the following coordination activities. Identify the information that needs to be exchanged in both directions:

• Building design that is informed by energy analysis of the building shell
• Building design that is informed by a structural analysis
• Steel fabrication level model that coordinates with a shop scheduling and materials tracking application
• Cast-in-place concrete design that is informed by a modular formwork system

4. What are the distinguishing functional capabilities provided by a BIM server as compared to a file-based system?

5. Explain why file exchange between design systems using IFC can result in errors. How would these errors be detected?

6. Imagine you are the manager of a project BIM server that contains both a structural analysis model and an energy analysis model. You make a change in locational placement to the architectural model (representing the design intent of the physical building). How should the synchronization process work so as to make the BIM environment model consistent?

7. Define a data exchange scenario between software applications that will be used in your design studio project. This will become a section of your BIM Execution Plan final project for this class.