19 Oct 2016-|Gurgaon (Manesar) | Smart Class Room, C-214, ASET, AUH
Guest Lecture on Building Information Modeling
The Seminar on Building Information Modeling (BIM) was organized in collaboration with Tickoo Institute of Emerging Technologies, Gurgaon to promote challenging and developmental activities in the field of Civil Engineering. The research in such field and amalgamation of the field work and technology being employed has an exponential growth throughout the globe.
Building information modeling (BIM) is a process involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places. BIMs are files which can be extracted, exchanged or networked to support decision-making regarding a building or other built asset. A BIM is a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life-cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition.
The thought-provoking seminar was delivered by Ms. Bhavna, Technical Head, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Tickoo Institute of Emerging Technologies, Gurgaon discussing about what actually BIM is and How is it useful for the civil engineering students.
She discussed that for the professionals involved in a project, BIM enables a virtual information model to be handed from the design team (architects, landscape architects, surveyors, civil, structural and building services engineers, etc.) to the main contractor and subcontractors and then on to the owner/operator; each professional adds discipline-specific data to the single shared model. This reduces information losses that traditionally occurred when a new team takes 'ownership' of the project, and provides more extensive information to owners of complex structures.
During the seminar, she showed a number of short videos to the students and faculty members to understand what BIM is and why is it useful in Construction industry these days. This gave them a clear picture of the importance of BIM.
She also emphasized on the importance of various softwares that combine to make up BIM discussing that BIM is not software but a combination of all softwares related to design, analyzing and knowledge sharing. She also laid stress on the key points related to BIM and the purpose of BIM, Steps to adopting BIM, Evolution of the drawing process, BIM workflow and Model Development. She informed about the various softwares used in design and analyzing and management of the construction project such as Autodesk Revit, Naviswork, Primavera, Informatrix, StaadPro., Corenet, Graphisoft, Timberline, MXRoads, Geo5, Tekla, ArcGIS, GeoStudio, Ms. Project, AutoCaD Civil 3D, etc.
At the end of the seminar She shared her views about the need for learning the software based skills for the students of Civil Engineering to have an edge in the recruitment world.