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project participants? are
imposed.
If you have read the questions
carefully and then thought
through them, you will admit that
it is not so easy to give a short
and simple answer to any of the
questions asked. Therefore, I am
going to elaborate on each of the
questions raised below and
provide a detailed answer to each
one.
Is the BIM Workflow
Itself A Design
Process
Automation?
If you go back to the introductory
section of this article and read
the BIM workflow definition, I
think you could agree with me
that the BIM workflow does not
mean automation of the project
process by itself.
We can say that BIM automates
the project process only partially.
Still, we cannot consider it as a
tool for the full automation of
generating and exchanging data
in the BIM workflow itself. Here is
an explanation for such a claim:
We already know that every BIM
model of discipline, within the
BIM multidisciplinary project,
generates a large amount of data
during the project process.
To give a more precise answer to
the question - is the BIM
workflow itself a design process
automation, in my opinion, it is
necessary to roughly classify the
generated data in the BIM model
of discipline into data related to
the BIM model geometry, data
related for analytics and different
calculations in the BIM discipline
model and the data generated to
exchange between various
disciplines in the project to
optimize the multidisciplinary
BIM workflow. Then it is
necessary to consider how they
are generated and what they are
worth in terms of automating a
multidisciplinary BIM workflow:
Data related to the geometry of
the BIM discipline model:
• Generated partially automated
during the modeling of the BIM
discipline model;
• Have value mainly related to
multidisciplinary coordination
between BIM models of different
disciplines;
Data related to materials,
analytics, and various calculations
in the BIM discipline model:
• Not automatically generated;
• To be of value within the
discipline, it is generally
necessary to manually add data;
Data generated for the exchange
between different disciplines to
optimize the multidisciplinary
BIM workflow:
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