BIM steamline the design process for engineering firms

Engineers can apply BIM process in design stages and couple it with better project delivery options to automate much of the design workflow. This can lead to improvements in engineering design and product detailing productivity. Thus engineering firms can reap the benefits of direct cost reduction.

BIM can minimize errors, curtail lead times and improve information flows to support logistics.

With the help of BIM Civil engineers should be able to develop design for most complex buildings today. BIM is being implemented in the planning, design, construction, and asset management of civil engineering projects. Civil engineers get the ability to adopt data collection, collaborative design, and digital data sharing.

BIM technology help architects and engineers to create a 3-D model of a building or structure which will be used for analysis and design to make the design process very simple.

BIM facilitates optimization of the design regarding function, time, and cost and virtually build the infrastructure to attain coordination prior to commencement of actual construction on a site. The construction sequence is rationalized.

The single, real-time model and user-specific views allow much superior interrogation of design and precise, synchronized documentation of everything is available for engineering project.

Civil engineers get the ability to sequence construction, equipment, and materials and track advancement against logistics and timelines set up by application of laser scanning for up-to-date as-builts.



BIM generates component-based construction models that lead to the virtual construction, sequencing, and operation of infrastructure toward the planning and design stage. BIM caters for design optimization to evaluate and distinguish various approaches to sustainable designs with correlated lifecycle costing.

BIM empowers the Engineers to quantify the value of trade-offs among the building elements (structural, electrical, mechanical) and reduces the inconsistencies connecting these elements which may result in energy savings.

With BIM engineering documents are mechanically coordinated, eliminating errors and omissions, which can lead to better-engineered buildings delivered on time and on budget. BIM based 3D modeling process accelerate the design stage providing substantial advantages in accuracy and complication. These models are able to effortlessly design and manage multifaceted air handling, electrical and plumbing systems, the widest selection of components and materials with an supplementary capability for generating cross sectional diagrams to be produced and customized parametrically. 3D models can also be utilized to easily create exact and coordinated 2D versions.

BIM collaborates immaculately across disciplinary borders in shared multi-disciplinary models. In brief, Engineers get advantages during efficient processes, improved collaboration, more informed decisions, accelerated understanding of the building elements and improved data quality and data efficiency.

Posted by Rajib Dey
Business Development
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Global Associates (Pioneer Company in 3D modeling with BIM & Sketchup)

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How BIM make the precast concrete process easier for structural engineers

Precast concrete is a process associated with construction where concrete is cast in recyclable moulds and alleviated in a controlled environment. It is then transferred to the construction site and lifted and fixed in the structure.

BIM provides some great benefits to owner, architect, structural engineer, precast fabricator and erection crews who mutually work in a prescast construction process.

BIM technology can be applied to improve the quality of precast engineering design regarding drawings and exactness & consistency of the documents. Fabrication and erection are essentially error-free, and the effort required for checking drawings has declined drastically.

By applying BIM precast fabricator can shorten lead times for preparing their shop drawings rapidly.

BIM contains a huge database of information which can be utilized to improve the productivity of design documentation from project to project.

The most significant benefit of BIM is that the software decreases engineering cost and cost of rework caused by errors. Besides BIM develops precision in cost estimating, decreases engineering lead time to a great extent, provides support for automation in production.

BIM facilitates design and detail of precast elements with complex geometries in short times and remove the geometry or connection errors and time raised on checking and vetting drawings during fabrication or erection of precast elements.



From a BIM model all the information are circulated in both engineering and in production in preparing precast shop drawings to pre-build a precast project in the virtual world . All geometry, details, and connections within the model are properly placed and coordinated.

BIM is applied to evaluate prospective inconsistencies or project obstacles in the model, in order to determine and resolve these earlier to issuing drawings for construction. The BIM technology minimize the chances of misaligned connections, inaccurate architectural features and geometry conflicts, to make sure that shop drawings are generated without any in depth checking or cross coordination connecting drawings.

Any changes in the precast concrete project like revising wall panel reinforcement from rebar to mesh, moving and adjusting the sizes of mechanical blockouts, revising some lift hooks, and minor changes to some connections to make erection simpler for site personne, requested by the architect, the owner, and the precast manufacturer, can be put into the model and all the related drawing are updated automatically. This is made possible with the parametric features of the BIM model.

Within a BIM model, the documentation is generated quickly and inexpensively to facilitate the creation of various reports and drawings which can depict the precise information requirements of the various Consumers.

Advantages of BIM for precast concrete :-

• Model the overall geometry;
• Take up design changes with a minimum of rework in organizing and reconciling different drawings;
• Model any missing custom components (reinforcement details, connections details, embeds);
• Make 3D visualization of the project to facilitate check for and evade design errors. This is useful for observing complex and congested arrangements of embeds, reinforcing and prestressed strands;
• Production of schedules and shop drawings to improve productivity for precast structures in as automated a fashion as could be achieved;
• Visualize the structure, purposely to present the spatial precast elements in three dimensional views to the owner;

useful link :
PCI BIM Committee Presents the Benefits of openBIM to the Precast Industry

Tracking Precast Pieces

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Business Development
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Global Associates (Pioneer Company in 3D modeling with BIM & Sketchup)

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Tekla Releases BIMsight 1.3 for imporved collaboration in construction industry

Tekla unveils a new imporved version known as BIMsight 1.3. Tekla BIM is a BIM (building information modeling) environment designated for contractors, structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, as well as concrete detailers and manufacturers.

Tekla BIMsight can be shared and downloaded over the internet at free of cost. Tekla BIMsight 1.3 facilitate the project parties to get the appropriate information from the different models and address the feasible issues. With the coloring function options users are able to choose colors for models or model objects, alongwith transparency. The support for layers simplifies the process of filtering the revelant data and the support for units (SI and Imperial) keep the information easily understandable.

The latest version will empower the Tekla BIMsight users to exchange notes in open BCF format and this will enhance the collaboration phase to a great extent. Tekla launched first version of this unique software application for building information model-based construction project collaboration in February 2011.

Tekla BIMsight has been successful in the form of a rapidly increasing user base of construction professionals and favorable reviews. Tekla provides most sophisticated BIM tool to be applied with any construction project and reap the benefits of timely project delivery and fewer RFI's.

Tekla BIMsight can be applied for design coordination in all BIM projects varying from big and small.

Download Tekla BIMsight 1.3 software for free here.

Any body can get help from a unique Video tutorials and an online customer community for visualizing and communicating with building information models.

Posted by Rajib Dey
Business Development
rajib@jobs2india.com
Global Associates (Pioneer Company in 3D modeling with BIM & Sketchup)

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