Automated BIM QA/QC procedures with practical application : master thesis No.: 241/II. GR-BIM

Salaberri Martin, Julio Joaquin (author), Cerovšek, Tomo (mentor), Starc, Andraž (co-mentor), Sinur, Franc (co-mentor)

The increase of adoption of BIM methodology in construction projects, and the increase of BIM maturity in organizations and project teams, has led to an increase of the amount and diversity of requirements that the information in the BIM models need to satisfy, from building regulations, through the construction process, all the way to the built asset management. Design companies need to take into account these requirements for the development of their design, and they are responsible of producing their design and information in compliance with those requirements. For this, design companies should have proper Quality Assurance and Quality Control plans and processes that ensure the quality of the information produced. Model checking is a necessary activity as part of the QA/QC plans to ensure that compliance between the information and requirements. However, still in many design companies this model checking is carried out by manual or semi-automated procedures that need a tangible amount of time and therefore, human resources. This thesis aims to define a generic workflow to implement automated rule-based checks that allow to validate the alphanumerical information content of the developed BIM models in the design stages of a project life cycle in the environment of the BIM Authoring Tool, from the perspective of a design company, based on the information available in the literature. The workflow can be carried out in an isolated manner or can be integrated into the design phase processes of such design company. Afterwards, the applicability of the workflow has been tested in a case study, making use of tools that are available on the market and allow to perform automated checks on the alphanumerical information of the model and evaluate the compliance of this information with alphanumerical requirements.

• Language: English
• Keywords: civil engineering, master thesis, BIM, data quality, information quality, QA/QC, rule-based checking, automated checking, IFC, model checking, Revit
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [J. J. Salaberri Martin]
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: XV, 80 str., [16] str. pril.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-141482-6bcdbdcf-57f4-b3ec-04c7-b7166f8bab24
• UDC: 004.728.8:004.946.5(043.3)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 126561283
• Publication date in RUL: 30.09.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Avtomatizirane BIM QA/QC procedure s praktično uporabo : magistrsko delo: 241/II. GR-BIM

Abstract

Vse večja uporaba metodologije BIM na gradbenih projektih in večja zrelosti BIM v organizacijah ter projektnih skupinah void k večjim količinam in raznolikosti zahtev, ki jih morajo informacije v modelih BIM izpolnjevati, od gradbenih predpisov, do dopolnitev skozi faze prejekta, pa vse do upravljanja in vzdrževanja gradbenih objektov. Projektantska podjetja morajo te zahteve upoštevati pri razvoju svojih načrtovalskih rešitev, odgovorna so za izdelavo geometrije in informacij v skladu s temi zahtevami. Za to morajo imeti projektatnska podjetja ustrezne načrte in postopke za zagotavljanje kakovosti in nadzor kakovosti, ki zagotavljajo ustreznost ustvarjenih projektnih informacij. Preverjanje modela je nujna dejavnost kot del načrtov QA/QC, da se zagotovi skladnost med izdelanimi informacijami in zahtevami. Vendar se v mnogih projektantskih podjetjih to preverjanje modelov še vedno izvaja z ročnimi ali polavtomatskimi postopki, ki zahtevajo občutno večjo količino časa in s tem tudi človeških virov. Namen te magistrske naloge je opredeliti generični delovni tok za implementacijo avtomatiziranih preverjanj na podlagi pravil, ki omogočajo validacijo vsebine alfanumeričnih informacij razvitih modelov BIM skozi faze življenjskega cikla projekta v avtorskem okolju BIM. Pristop obravnavamo z vidika projektantskega podjetja in na osnovi temeljitega pregleda literature. Delovni tok se lahko izvaja izolirano ali pa se lahko integrira v procese skozi faze načrtovanja projektantskega podjetja. Uporabnost predvidenega delotoka je bilča preizkušena v študiji primera z uporabo orodij, ki so na voljo na trgu in omogočajo avtomatizirano preverjanje alfanumeričnih informacij modela ter ovrednotenje skladnosti teh informacij z informacijskimi zahtevami projekta.

• Keywords: gradbeništvo, magistrska dela, GR, BIM, kakovost podatkov, QA/QC, preverjanje na osnovi pravil, avtomatizirano preverjanje modelov, IFC, Revit