GIS + BIM = Integrated Project Delivery @ Penn State

摘要

In 2007, at the American Society of Landscape Architects Conference in San Francisco, Jim Sipes of AECOM presented, "Applying Building Information Modeling to Landscape Architecture." There he shared a recent survey by the American Institutes of Architects showing that three-quarters of architecture firms in the country are using 3D and building information modeling (BIM) in their practices. Moreover, clients are increasingly requiring that BIM be a part of the qualifications when selecting design teams. Unfortunately for landscape architects, the current BIM software and standards were developed for the modeling of buildings - not sites. Sipes advocated that the profession needs to leverage software vendors and standards committees to further develop BIM technologies to incorporate site elements - and suggested that this new technology be called site information modeling. He later added that landscape architects need to be proficient in this 'new' technology or be left behind (SIPES 2007). The challenge then is if BIM is not designed for site modeling, how do we educate landscape architecture students in BIM? The answer might be in the delivery process and not in the technology.