What are the primary goals of creating a building model? Who are the key stakeholders?
- What do they need?
- What do they care about most?
Construction requires many workers from multi-discipline. Since the workers have their own expertise, sometimes it is hard to understand other fields’ detailed information. Lack of understanding between disciplines commonly results in a misunderstanding between the workers. Construction stakeholders need intuitive, visible, and unified data to easily understand the whole process of the project easily.
Stakeholders of construction care most about the accuracy, time, money, and quality. As BIM provides all required data in one 3D model, stakeholders can enhance accuracy, save time, and find a way to minimize money with high quality.
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
- Preliminary design
- Design development
- Construction documentation
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...)
- 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?
They can advertise their products to the many stakeholders who have a high probability of actually purchasing their products. Also, they can collect the data of users, who are the prospective buyers, by requiring them to sign up for their webpages
Some of the doors and windows provided directly by manufacturers contain cutting-edge technologies that enable me to have more flexibility in design. For example, I can use automatic windows from manufacturers to arrange open windows on the elevation where people cannot reach them.
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?
Getting the Revit component families directly from the manufacturer can explicitly annotate the exact sizes and features of the components that will use in the sites, so all stakeholders are able to receive accurate information and give some feedback on them. It can reduce the unnecessary time for searching for items in the construction stage.