Are you thinking of analyzing your building performance? Choose a proficient BIM service provider for delivering high quality Revit components. Revit is the building block of building Information Modeling and hence a number of people within the BIM life-cycle are getting benefited from Revit. Remember that BIM is not only about creating a building structure in 3d. Your building model will simply become a cage without Revit. Placing the Revit Family components offers a fresh life to the cage. Myriads of elements are included within the Revit Family including the doors, stairs, windows, railings, chairs, drawers, cabinets, desk, clocks and many more. The right placement of the BIM Revit Family components brings about a great impact on the look of the entire construction. It is more significant in hospitals, where the modeling takes place in the operation theaters.
Competence Evaluation of Products – High BIM Detailer quality Revit modeling ensures that all Revit components are intelligently created with the convenience to serve the purpose. Parametric families include real world product info or the performance models essential for making calculation analysis and simulations. A library of objects is included in the software, which can be modified in numerous ways. Revit makes use of parametric for controlling objects through formulas and input, evaluating products competently prior to modeling. The Facility Managers and the Building Owners are empowered by Revit which offers an exact virtual representation of the building. They integrate Revit Model into existing Facility Management software for getting reduced cost of operation, administration and space planning.
Communication of Design Objectives – If your components are over-designed, they will reduce the speed of PC performance, which in turn will delay your project performance and productivity. On the contrary, if they are under designed they won’t serve the right purpose for your need. Through BIM Revit Families the architects and designers can successfully communicate their design objectives and examine the building performance and cost in advance. This helps the architects to easily capture and assess designs and perfectly maintain coordinated data through construction documentation. Starting from the Conceptual Design to Construction Documentation, the architects become acquainted with individual product specifications of buildings, including the tolerance, color, cost, MEP details and thus can take quick decision.
BIM Revit Families are created before and they are made up of precision engineered reusable objects, amassed with associated parameters and graphical representation. As a result of which, they can be organized into the same group without much trouble. This helps to seek out customized or manufacturer specific content. Revit families not merely include physical product representation, but contain detailed manufacturing data, essential to a project. Builders and Contractors can access Revit Model and can arrange the individual building products for construction. Since the model contains all significant information, about technical specification, manufacturer and product installation, one can easily extract information from it.
In the AEC industry, the advent of building information modeling (BIM) concept was viewed by many as an evolution to better 2d and 3d computer-aided design (CAD) techniques. Very few saw it as an interdisciplinary, collaborative tool that would drastically change the design-build project workflow, the management structure of AEC firms, the teaming models, the delivery standards, and the role of key disciplines involved.
As opposed to the vertical communication channels and delivery methods required by the traditional design-build approaches which mainly employ CAD, BIM necessitates an open and integrated horizontal collaboration channel between all the key stakeholders of the project: facility owners, designers/architects, MEP (M&E) engineers, consultants and contractors. To realise the benefits of employing BIM as compared to 3d CAD modelling tools, firms need to significantly invest in knowledge/skills development, personnel training, management restructuring, and software tools. However, more than these tangible investments, AEC companies need a complete change in mindset in case they want to adopt BIM for their projects.
Whilst many professionals, especially those from small and medium-sized firms, see it as an extension of 3d CAD, BIM is anything but 3d CAD. It is a much larger concept which involves extensive pre-construction planning and multidisciplinary coordination to virtually model building facilities using smart parametric objects embedded with rich accurate information. This intelligent model then can be used by all stakeholders to extract respective views and relevant information thereby resulting in timely decision-making and project delivery.
Though BIM and 3d CAD are not mutually exclusive to each other, they have major differences as far as the approach and the output is concerned. In traditional 3d CAD, depending on the scope of project, architects prepare a set of construction drawings, including the plans, sections, and elevations. Since all these views are independent entities, any change in one view has to be manually updated in others. As a result, the process is not only time-consuming but also increases the scope for errors.
On the contrary, a building information model contains the architectural, structural and MEP system models of the proposed facility. It is prepared during the design and planning stage using details from all the key stakeholders including designers, engineers, MEP contractors, and subcontractors. Since a single database-driven model represents details required by all disciplines, any changes made by any of the team members are automatically updated across the model to plans, sections and elevations. Hence, all the project team members are updated on all the changes made by others thereby saving time, reducing cost resulting from duplication of efforts, and increasing the overall quality of construction drawing sets. Thus making small changes to the architectural plan would result in those changes appearing simultaneously in the section, elevation or schedule for the same change to the plan.
Furthermore, the building blocks of 3d CAD models are lines, circles, arcs, and other graphical entities, which lack the flexibility of data analysis. These models only serve as geometric objects devoid of detailed parameters which are required by the entire AEC supply chain. In contrast, BIM models comprise building elements and intelligent systems, including columns, beams, and walls, which contain rich data related to parameters. If needed, additional parameters can be added to the pre-existing ones for more detail. And, this rich data can be effectively shared across disciplines for rich collaboration and on-time delivery.
Nevertheless, the success of any project which employs BIM depends mainly on factors which include the richness of information embedded in the 3d models, the degree of openness in the interdisciplinary data-sharing and collaboration standards, and the level of mutual trust among all the professionals involved. If prudently planned and implemented, a BIM model not only represents the essential building elements in detail; valuable information concerning spatial coordination, geographic location, quantity take-offs, material requirements, time schedule, and project cost can be extracted when needed.