BIM for Structure Engineers

BIM for Structure Engineers

Category:
BIM Construction/
Duration: 3 Days                               (10.30am - 5.30pm)
MTTC certificate of Completion

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Designed for structural engineers to optimize designs, improve collaboration, and deliver projects faster. Using BIM, structural engineers can make more informed design decisions, automate construction documentation, and produce more constructible designs. Focus of this course will be more on:

  • Introduction to BIM
  • Uses of BIM
  • BIM capabilities
  • BIM Dimensions
  • Using Revit Structural
  • Families component modeling
  • Sheet Compilation and Publication
  • Basic Subdivision and Collaboration
  • Clash Analysis
  • Walkthrough and simulation

Day 1

Introduction

  • Roles & Responsibilities of Project Team
  • Main elements of BIM
  • Simple Truths
  • Behind the hype
  • The benefits of BIM
  • What will BIM deliver

BIM Information Management

  • Information Management
  • BIM Deployment – Expectation as each stage of PLC
  • Employer Information Request (EIR)

BIM Capabilities

  • BIM Competency Map
  • BIM Organizational Readiness
  • Organizational Checklist

BIM Dimensions

  • BIM Dimensions and projects lifecycle (PLC)
  • Brief of 3D to 7D

UI Tour, Project Navigation and View Creation

  • Introducing the menu and screen layout
  • Interrogating the model to extract views
  • Placement and properties of grids and levels
  • Introduction to basic Revit elements

Element Selection and Manipulation

  • Object selection and methods
  • Element properties
  • Instance and type parameters
  • Nodes and snaps

Visibility Control and Categorization

  • Project-wide settings
  • View specific overrides
  • Elements specific overrides
  • Individual line overrides
  • Exercise on modifying element visibility

Model Development Methodology

  • Rationalized model construction
  • Graded component libraries
  • Data-rich/graphics light
  • Controlling 3D geometry and 2D line work

Day 2

Settings Units and Linking Revit

  • Project units-Common and Structural
  • Structural settings and symbolic representation
  • Analytical settings
  • Linking CAD and Revit Architecture
  • Copy monitor and coordination review

Modeling Basics–Walls, Columns Beams and Bracing

  • Basic definitions
  • Relating slabs to walls and supporting framework
  • Column placement and behavior
  • Beam placement and behavior Element connectivity and display
  • Bracing characteristics

Foundations and Piling

  • Footings and foundations types
  • Slabs, standard and in-place family foundations
  • Foundation walls, piers and pilasters

System Family Editing

  • Principles of composite system family definition
  • Understanding properties such as function, and wrapping of layers
  • Creating and utilizing a system family library

Basic Schedules and Legends

  • Interactive session on the generation of tabular interrogations of the model

Geometry Formation and In-Place Families

  • Interactive session on the creation and manipulation of basic solid and void forms

Slab and Roof Tools

  • Sketching Rules
  • Relating to slabs to walls and supports
  • Cantilevers, span direction and adding slopes
  • Slab foundation and slab edge
  • Basic Roof Designs

Day 3

Stairs Ramps and Railings

  • Characteristics of simple staircases and ramps
  • Hand railing integral to the stairs and ramps
  • Stand-alone handrail

Beam and Truss Systems

  • Beam systems creation and placement
  • Sketching boundaries and rules
  • Modifying beam system properties
  • Concrete framing systems and pan joist slabs
  • Truss elements, placement and family creation
  • Attaching trusses to roofs and floors

Project Phases and Design Options

  • Project phasing, properties and creation
  • Phase filters and graphic overrides
  • Combining phases, infill and the demolition of elements
  • Design option terminology and workflow
  • Utilizing design option sets and work set

2D Draughting and Annotation

  • Introducing annotation tools and components categories
  • Details components libraries
  • Repeating details
  • Lines and arcs
  • Text, tags and keynotes

Sheet Compilation and Publication

  • Project browser organization-WIP and Publish
  • Creating and populating sheets
  • Working and schedules
  • Publishing and document management

Basic Subdivision and Collaboration

  • Introducing a BIM Strategy document
  • Model management
  • Project team collaboration techniques
  • Transmittal and model issue protocols
  • Basics of large model sub-division

Clash Analysis

  • Naviswork Manage
  • Beam, columns and Walls
  • Clash presentation

Walkthrough and simulation

  • Working on Naviswork simulation

COURSE BROCHURE

Course Outline

Course Introduction and Manual