Current Advantages of Revit/BIM - Maalik Kaptue

The biggest advantage of Revit and other BIM programs similar to Revit is its ability to paint a picture, capturing a sense of reality through computer modeling. BIM models are draws the owner’s vision of a project, as designers (architects and engineers) create projects assembling elements that ultimately work in collaboration to achieve and replicate the owner’s vision. The model is also able to serves a living document that throws a link between all parties involving a project. The BIM model connected the architects to the engineers to the general contractor to the subcontractors, etc. This model is able to be seen by all parties, as there are open lines of communication about each and every component within the structure that can be adjusted and altered if needed. The involvement of BIM models has also changed the concept of construction and the method it used to finish a project. With the implementation of BIM on the construction site, the construction method of modern-day projects has shifted from the tradition of design-bid-build to the practice of design-build, as BIM models and the involvement of all stakeholders in all all phases of construction has taken center stage. For example, National Parks (a baseball stadium in Washington, DC) used the construction method, as the construction process was coordinated through weekly meetings of all stakeholders and using a BIM model to determine what work and sections of the project needed to be done.

One of the biggest technical advantages of Revit is family creation. Creating family components ultimately play an important role in developing an accurate BIM model. Ultimately, in the professional world, it allows different groups of engineers, designers, manufacturers and the clients to work together to adjust and alter different components of a project throughout the design process if needed. In the interface of creating families, the user (designer) is able to define, align and adjust the size, materials and dimensions of their desired object. It allows them to work as professionals and technicians as there is a sense of expertise and precision in the assembly of these families. With the coordination of dimensions and refined geometry, elements are design to proper scale, serves as a good frame of reference. This further leads to the development and management of the project specifications, ensuring these families meet specific project requirements. The ability of setting parameters allows the user to set constraints around different components of the family. These parameter lock dimensions in place, as the elements are not allowed to be modified without changing its parameters. Despite that, the elements of families can be easily altered and realigned to meeting new dimension requirements if needed. It can be properly done by changing parameters.

Comments

Aaron Goldberg - I agree with how I do not believe that this level of BIM modeling will become integrated into the AEC industry within the next 10 years. It is something that is definitely inevitable in the future but there needs to be a change in the way that many engineers and architects use BIM today. It will get more integrated in the baseline design and architecture industries more heavily, and following that, once it is better understood and easier to integrate, the AEC industry will more-so adopt it, rather than get it integrated.

Yicheng Li - One of the biggest problem with BIM today’s world of engineering is the implementation of AI and automated coding into BIM. There is no clear link between coding and BIM program. Therefore, with its un tapped expertise within BIM, there needed to be a learning approach and curve for its users.

Alkiviadis Tsitsios - I agree with how Revit and AutoCAD are both Autodesk design software which are used to design a variety of components to a construction project. Initially, it is seen that they function from two different viewpoints, as one focuses on 2D modeling while the other focuses on 3D imagery. But it is cool to see how they function and work off of each other to create multiple perspectives of a project.