BIM Integrated Workflow Management and Monitoring System for Modular Buildings

2. Towards A Bim Management System

BIM evolved as a superset of the 3D CAD model of a building, containing parametric information supplemented with object relationships, which can support the simulation of a building virtually, permitting experimentation, by modification of design parameters. BIM is therefore, geared towards automating the creation of optimised buildings (in terms of energy use and structural design), and management of building data. However the current methodology does not include further methods of data collection and storage through online monitoring, and additional manipulation through data analysis in simulated models can help to improve performance or mitigate any problems during the building lifetime, when BIM is encapsulated in a Building Management System. This would also enable the automatic updating of building information models (Hwang & Liu, 2010) for continual self-diagnosis and reporting to aid 6D BIM, in terms of lifetime management. The main focus of BIM thus far has been interoperability between software and data re-use, particularly with design simulation tools, which up this point has been a successful reason for its recent widespread adoption in the AEC industry, especially in terms of collaboration.