Overview
Aims
Introduce students to BIM as a collaborative process for creating and managing information about a built asset across its whole lifecycle
Explain the difference between the model, the modelling activity and information management, and the role of standards
Show where surveying and cadastre fit in BIM workflows: georeferencing, control points, as-built models and Scan-to-BIM
Develop practical skills in Autodesk Revit for building a parametric model and extracting drawings and schedules from it
Prepare students to exchange data with other platforms through open formats such as IFC
Course contents
- BIM fundamentals: definition, lifecycle, model / modelling / management.
- Collaboration and information management.
- Open data exchange.
- BIM compared with CAD and GIS; integration and Digital Twin.
- BIM dimensions.
- The surveyor's role in BIM.
- Scan-to-BIM.
- Federated and as-built models; error sources and good practice.
- Revit: interface, parametric elements, families and instances.
- Revit: modelling the building and georeferencing the model.
- Revit: views, sections, schedules and quantities.
- Revit: export and import, working with point clouds.
- Overview.
Learning outcomes
Define BIM and distinguish model, modelling and management
Describe the main elements of a BIM information framework
Compare BIM, CAD and GIS and explain how they feed a Digital Twin
Explain the BIM dimensions and what each adds to a project
Set up a correctly georeferenced Revit model
Describe the Scan-to-BIM workflow and build a model from a point cloud
Create parametric elements and families in Revit and generate views, sections and schedules.
Assessment
Oral presentation – BIM project – 50%; continuous assessment – 50%.