Design phase is one of the phases that can largely affects the lowering of performance level, i.e. conflicts in design documents, numerous modifications to be performed and the difficulty that causeatlate stages of the design process, and consequentl
y delay in delivery and sometimes fail to reach the project objectives.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) system is one of the effective methodologies that offers many privileges that could take part in solving these problems. The purpose of this study is revealing the influence of implementing BIM in design phase, by comparing it with traditional CAD-based systems.
Case studies have been conducted for projects of residential buildings during design phase in architectural part. Findings indicate that implementing BIM in design phase for architectural discipline have shortened the time needed for producing design documents by 75%.
This study could be utilized by any company working in the architectural design field, and encourages decision makers to start using BIM. Furthermore there still is a need foran extensive studies to imply other kinds of buildings and more disciplines of AEC industry.
Building maintenance is gaining an increasing attention in the field of scientific
research and there was a need for the use of new technologies in maintenance
management, , as the facility management deal with a large amount of information relatin
g
to maintenance, which includes drawings and specifications, lists, and reports, and the use
of paper files leads to decrease the efficiency and create a shortage of data and information.
We offer in this research tool to manage the maintenance process by using the BIM
through linking deterioration models and three-dimensional model of the facility to be
maintained, then compensate the external investigation data for maintenance work in these
models, to get at the end of this research and with the help of the possibilities offered by
Revit database to an upcoming maintenance items and arrange them according to their
importance and impact on the facility , the estimated budget for the periodic maintenance
and distribution of this budget on the various construction elements , the development of
resources plan for next year and up to the knowledge database of maintenance will help in
determining the supplier lifecycle and the coefficient of replacement.
