CME 405–Building Information Modeling for Construction Management
3 Credits (3 Lecture Hours)
Lecture – Meets in 154 Baker Hall, Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays 9:30-10:25AM
Instructor – Paul Crovella
219 Baker Laboratory
Phone X-6839 (470-6839)
Webpage –
Office hours – M,T,W,R,F 11-12
Texts –Revit Architecture 2010: no experience required Wing, Eric. John Wiley and Sons, 2009. (used for the first half of the course)
Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2011 User Guide (used for the second half of the course)(This is available as a free download from the Autodesk Education Community website).
Other Required Supplies – Each student will need a 4 Gb portable storage device to be brought to each class.
Description - This course shall introduce the basic concepts of building information modeling as a construction approach, and explore its application to construction management. The course will emphasize the use of building information modeling for estimation, scheduling, clash detection, and project communication.
Student Outcomes:
1. Be able to describe the data structure of a building information model (BIM), and the standards that exist for model use in construction management.
2. Be able to develop a BIM based on parametric components for a small commercial project.
3. Be able to use a BIM to develop quantity take-offsor import into other estimating software for a large commercial project.
4. Be able to use a BIM to develop schedules and animate phasing for a large commercial project.
5. Be able to aggregate BIMs to perform clash detection for a large commercial project.
6. Develop an appreciation for the change in project delivery and workflow when using a BIM in the construction management process.
Attendance - Students are expected to attend all scheduled classes and laboratories. If special circumstances such as illness, religious holidays, travel difficulties, family emergencies or active participation in college-sponsored events make absence unavoidable you must see me to make up the work. No student will be allowed to complete graded work after that work has been returned to others in the class.
While in class, please keep cell phones turned off, this includes during tests (no cell phone calculators).
To maintain the proper classroom environment, computers should be used during classstrictly for class-related activity.
Academic Honesty – Honesty and integrity are major elements in professional behavior and are expected of each student. Any assignment (including those in electronic media) submitted by a student must be of the student's original authorship. Representation of another's work as the student’s own shall constitute plagiarism. Cheating, in any form, is an unacceptable behavior within all college courses, and the college policy on academic integrity (as outlined in the handbook “Academic Integrity ESF” at will be strictly adhered to.
Grading – The course grading will be a combination of grades earned on homework, quizzes, tests, group project work, class presentation, and the final exam.
The final grade will be based on these percentages
Homework40%
Assignments (Collaboration, QTO, Phasing, Clash detection) 20%
Semester Project20%
Class participation10%
Final Exam10%
Homework–All written work must be word-processed and spell checked. Any calculations may be hand-written neatly with the answer labeled with units and boxed. Any homework not turned in on-time needs to be discussed with me to determine if credit will be given. No late homework will be accepted after the assignment has been graded and returned to the rest of the class.
Course Outline:
Week 1 / Lecture 1 – Course introduction, PPT of Intro to BIMLecture 2 – Dalpos Movie for CSI presentation, Intro to Revit, how to draw a wall (Ribbon, element properties, how to use the correct default file locations for the walls
Lecture 3 – Process for drawing walls for Baker Lab (Placement in view window, mirroring, view control) Assignment – Draw Baker lab exterior walls using plans from FTP site
Exercise – Personal Introduction
Week 2 / Lecture 4 – Intro to families as a way to select window types, checking model dimensions and adjusting, installing reference planes, modify window types, load window types, Assignment – install windows on north façade.
Lecture 5 – Create Levels, Change curtain wall in front of building, install doors, create windows on South side. Prepare to install photovoltaic panels on south side. Download PV panels.
Lecture 6 – Floors – Selecting boundaries to inside of walls, installing a roof to outside of walls,
Week 3 / Lecture 7- Floors – catch up
Lecture 8 – Structural grid, Structural columns, Structural Framing – Beams, walkthrough
Lecture 9 – Review walkthrough, Change Brick color, Place beams for solar panels, place angle on top of beams import-modify (duplicate) and place solar panels.
Week 4 / Lecture 10 – Set angle on angles on beams, import-modify (duplicate) and place solar panels.
Lecture 11 – Solar study
Lecture 12 –Adding interior walls, collaborating with worksets (show how to insert PDF image of floor plan to use to electronic drawings as an overlay to draw walls, the visibility/graphics for the floor must be set to transparent, curved walls, the height of the wall must set to connected (upper floor)).
Week 5 / Lecture 13 - Ceilings, collaborating with worksets. Adding ceilings.
Lecture 14 - Adding floor materials, adding wall materials, collaborating with worksets.
Lectures 15 Schedules and Tags (assign quantity take off with “good” models)
Week 6 / Lectures 16-18 Schedules and Tags (assign quantity take off with “good” models)
Week 7 / Lectures 19-20 Creating Room and Area Plans (assign wall and floor materials) (chap 15)
Lecture 21 Phasing – Show how to apply phase filters to quantity take offs
Week 8 / Lecture 22 Phasing – Show how to apply phase filters to quantity take offs
Lectures 23-24 Interference detection in Revit Architecture
Week 9 / Lectures 25-27 Revit Structure and importing models
Week 10 / Lectures 28-30 Revit MEP and importing models
Week 11 / Lectures 31-33 Navisworks – Clash
Week 12 / Lectures 34-36 Navisworks - Phasing, animations
Week 13 / Lectures 36-39 Work for final presentations
Week
14 / Lectures 40-45 Final presentations
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