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Module 2 - Points to Ponder
Please share your comments on 3 of the following Points to Ponder questions. (Choose 3 of the 5 questions below.)
What are the primary goals of creating a building model? Who are the key stakeholders?
The primary goal of creating a building model is to make a editable model on a common platform that all stakeholders can access and change. The key stakeholders include building owners, engineers, architects, contractors, and inspectors. The stakeholders need an efficient and standardized way to communicate and agree on building models at all phases of a project. They care the most about having all the details, dimensions, and annotations checked and agreed by all stakeholders.
How much detail should you include in your building model? How do you decide?
- As you develop your initial design?
- As you continue to iterate and develop on your design?
- What are the key stages?
- And how much detail should you include at each stage?
How much detail should you include about the composition (layers, materials, thicknesses) of your wall, floor, and roof assemblies at different stages of your design process?
- Conceptual design
- This stage should include minimal details since we are at a very early stage of design. You can place any materials and composition as placeholders, and they can be changed later on.
- Preliminary design
- This stage should include basic simplified layers, but not yet broken into brand or exact material units.
- Design development
- This stage should include fully defined assemblies with actual material layers, thicknesses, and thermal ratings. The accurate stud sizes, insulation type, drywall, and roofing membranes should be modeled as well.
- Construction documentation
- At this stage, all assemblies should be precise and fully coordinated with the stakeholders.
Many door and window manufacturers provide Revit families for doors and windows that you can specify for your building design.
- What is the advantage to manufacturers for providing these families? (it's not free to create and provide them...)
- Having the families streamlined within Revit makes it easier to apply and test the products in the design. This way, stakeholders can easily determine if the products are the right fit for the project, which makes it more likely for the stakeholders to choose the manufacturers’ products for the accessibility.
- What is the benefit to you as the designer of using these manufacturer-provided families? Is there an advantage to using them versus the families provided in the Revit library?
- Using the manufacturer-provided families give a more realistic preview of how the doors and windows would look like. The families provided in the Revit library might not comply to real construction standards or might not be available to be made by manufacturers. On the other hand, using families provided by manufacturers ensure that the products exist and can be made for the project.