Like many other students, I too found this class very
interesting. I came into the class with very little expectations as the topic
seemed so broad that it was hard to determine what we would be learning. I also
had almost no experience with Revit or any other BIM software, besides from
using Bentley products for structural design. I found the class projects to be
a great way to demonstrate the tools that are available to us and how they
work. The Revit project taught me a lot about the benefits and potential of
these kinds of software in drafting buildings. This was further emphasized with
the guest speakers who demonstrated the usefulness of these products in the
professional world through showing how they use them every day, although my
favorite speaker was the one who had his own firm and talked about the faults
in new technologies. The database project then taught a lot about the uses of databases
and how they are used. It also exemplified the importance of planning in
databases as making changes to tables then must be propagated in the design of
the queries and forms for ease of use of the database. However, the project
then showed that once the database is properly designed and built, the
insertion and editing of data becomes simple for the users as changes only need
to be made once and everything else will update. Finally, I found the blog
posts and term report to be an interesting way of allowing us to branch into
the topics that were interesting to us. I learned a lot about the future technologies
that are being developed that will improve our way of life and simplify the
design of structures.
The most important thing that I learned in this class,
however, was the benefits of BIM programs and their growing importance in the
buildings industry. While I do not work at an architectural engineering firm,
it is clear that the industry is moving towards the integration of all relevant
models into one for the construction of structures. Even this past week, one of
the clients my job works for requested that the structural information be put
into their Revit model. This will be useful on all sides as it will be easy to
visualize the finalized building, make sure there are no clashes, and provide a
quick bill of materials for the project, to say the least. I plan to continue
to play with Revit in my spare time to become accustomed to these types of
tools for the future.
Comments:
Mark Lodato
Adrian Kuzniarowicz
Comments:
Mark Lodato
Adrian Kuzniarowicz
Hi Rebecca! Just as you did, I found this class very interesting. However, I did not have any expectations coming in since I was not quite sure what this course would cover because the name (Intelligent Buildings) is such a broad topic. However, I believe the most important thing taught in this class was AI because I see that having a larger impact on structural engineering in the future than I see BIM having. Great post!
ReplyDeleteHi Rebecca! Just as you did, I found this class very interesting. However, I did not have any expectations coming in since I was not quite sure what this course would cover because the name (Intelligent Buildings) is such a broad topic. However, I believe the most important thing taught in this class was AI because I see that having a larger impact on structural engineering in the future than I see BIM having. Great post!
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ReplyDeleteI had a similar experience as you with this course. I really don’t know what I originally was expecting. BIM software was also a topic that I found very interesting. In the past, my school, work, and coops required some use of BIM yet I had no idea of the full capabilities or what developers hope to develop into commonly used capabilities. The idea of a software system that can last a project from original thoughts to fill completion is pretty stunning. I think that the applications of ‘cloud projects’ (the use of cloud data storage) will be critical in allowing this to happen. Additionally the exploration of databases offered me insight into how a BIM system will internally organize necessary sizing and parts data.
Great post. I agree with you that the presentations that were given by people in the industry were very useful and provided a lot of insight. I agree that BIM modeling seems to be growing a lot in our industry but it seems to me that a lot of people that talked to us were a little optimistic about the time lines. They also likely downplayed the faults of the programs.
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