PROCESS MODELING FOCUSING ON BIM AND INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN RELATING TO STRUCTURAL PLANNING AND DESIGN

摘要

The Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry is finding that "silo" barriers promote limitations within the community, as a result inhibiting effective and efficient collaboration even with the advent of new ways of thinking. The current industry, including the structural discipline, is not realizing how everything should fit together as one cohesive entity. Due to the lack of integrated design processes throughout the community, an Integrated Structural Process Model (ISPM) was chosen as a research focus for development. ISPM has the potential to be a tool to educate the community on the critical tasks and information exchanges needed by the structural discipline to provide the best product. This paper discusses the ongoing development of the ISPM model based on the critical components of the structural discipline and its place within the broader spectrum of the lifecycle process. The resulting ISPM is overarching in nature in that it is not material or systems specific, yet its scope is comprehensive because it encompasses a project from planning through construction with provisions for future expansion into facility management. The broad AEC impact resulting from the ISPM is that it will prescribe what other disciplines need and gives (information) to be conscious of when designing, fabricating, and/or constructing during model and non-model based tasks. This impact helps to promote full collaboration amongst the various AEC teams. Through the ongoing development of this model, industry practitioners with structural focus feel that the identification of major tasks and information exchanges used to create the best resultant product has direct benefit to them for planning to give the owner the best project results.