The recent trends in architectural data management imply the scientific and professional collaborations of several disciplines involved in the design, restoration and maintenance. It seems an achieved concept that, in the next future, all the information connected to new interventions or conservation activities on historical buildings will be managed by using a BIM platform. Nowadays the actual...

This paper presents a case study of BIM implementation for Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA). The project is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the University of Salford and Links FF&E, a design, manufacture and fit-out SME based in the UK. The project aims to implement BIM as a catalyst for a Lean transformation, streamlining process and operations. Initially, organisation...

Learning how to compute and simulate civil engineering processes is the necessary task for engineers, instructors, learners. In general, with continuous improvement of computer technology, computing software promotes reform industry. can handle complex models ease accuracy. Therefore compared traditional manual calculations, computerized avoid errors in data acquisition calculation. Therefore, ...

Building with Building Information Modelling (BIM) changes design and production processes. But can BIM be used to support process changes designed according to lean production and lean construction principles? To begin to answer this question we provide a conceptual analysis of the interaction of lean construction and BIM for improving construction. This was investigated by compiling a detaile...

Capturing the building product in a single information model with high interoperable capabilities has been the subject of much research efforts in at least the last three decades. Contemporary advancements in Information Technology and the efforts from various research initiatives in the AEC industry are beginning to show evidence of progress with the emergence of building information modelling...

Vertical integration refers to a combination of several or all functions in the value chain under a single firm. Many researchers have suggested that vertical integration facilitates the development and implementation of systemic innovations. As opposed to autonomous innovations that can be introduced as such without any major changes or modifications to the rest of the business system, systemi...

With the current trend towards Building Information Model (BIM), facility managers have a new tool for raising efficiency. This paper discusses the integration of the BIM software with a real-time monitoring (RTM) system, as a 4D+ dimension in BIM, to track the electrical usage at every location in a building. This ability could be invaluable in identifying what unnecessary loads are connected ...