Reinforced concrete structures in the Open BIM workflow

The use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) methodology is a trend that is becoming a mandatory legal requirement for the design of buildings and public works. The advantages of this workflow (less wasting of both time and resources in the design phase, more efficient data management during the construction of the building and throughout its life cycle, and construction savings of around 20%) suggest that the different specialists in the industry should opt to work in a synchronised way.

BIM has influenced the traditional design process by providing a highly collaborative process that allows various parties and members of the project to work simultaneously. In this context, we are going to analyse and propose a way of working to integrate reinforced concrete structures into the BIM workflow. A speciality that, due to its very nature (concrete sections and reinforcement design), is still causing problems among professionals who want to work in a BIM environment.

In order to meet the needs of users who are designing with BIM, concrete design software must comply with the following critical aspects:

1. Solving all cases covered by the design codes.
2. Using stable information exchange processes that do not depend on the software used.
3. Reducing manual entry of data that has been previously entered in other software.
4. Displaying results according to the latest technological framework.Work proposal for achieving these objectives?

BIMserver.center's work proposal for modelling concrete structures in BIM is based on working with IFC files that are generated using a 3D geometric model produced by any architectural modelling software.?

This geometric model is shared on the BIMserver.center platform, allowing direct communication between all users and applications involved in the project. This file format allows users to use the applications of their choice, as long as they import and export IFC files.

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