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 visualize the design to clearly demonstracto to clients, stakeholders, and the construction team, as well as coordinate the disciplines (architdctural, structural, and MEP) so they don’t conflict, and works as way to accurately document the plans, sections, schedule, and materials needed. The key stakeholders are architects (care about aesthetics, design intent, and efficiency), structural engineers (care about structural integrity and coordination), MEP (care about system integration), contractors (care about quantity and quality of materials and buildability of the building), project managers (care about longevity and operational efficiency), and owners (care about cost, quality, sustainability, and function).
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?
The amount of detail needed for the conceptual design is minimal with walls, floors, and roofs as a single layer for masses and volumes, preliminary design is a more basic layering, showing the primary structural and finish layer (like concrete, insulation, finish), design development is a full composite where we add accurate thickness, materials, and construction buildup for analysis, and construction documentation is a complete detail that includes every material layer of the building, sharper details, insulation types, and fire ratings.
Many door and window manufacturers provide Revit families for doors and windows that you can specify for your building design.
Manufacturers provide the doors and windows to revit families so that they can directly use their products in the model and helps ensure their products are represented correctly in projects and encourages people to use the product more. The benefits for the dsigners is that they can have the accuracy of real dimension and performance data of the product, as weel as it is more efficient than creating custom families.
What are the advantages of getting the Revit component families (for furniture, equipment, and fittings) directly from the manufacturer versus from an online sharing website like RevitCity.com?
The primary goal of creating a building model is to visualize the design to clearly demonstracto to clients, stakeholders, and the construction team, as well as coordinate the disciplines (architdctural, structural, and MEP) so they don’t conflict, and works as way to accurately document the plans, sections, schedule, and materials needed. The key stakeholders are architects (care about aesthetics, design intent, and efficiency), structural engineers (care about structural integrity and coordination), MEP (care about system integration), contractors (care about quantity and quality of materials and buildability of the building), project managers (care about longevity and operational efficiency), and owners (care about cost, quality, sustainability, and function).