CE 59700 – Architecture and BIM for High Performance Buildings

Credits and contact hours:

  • 3 credits
  • Lecture meets 3 times per week for 50 minutes per meeting for 15 weeks

Specific course information:

  • Catalog description: Fundamentals of Architecture, Building Information Modeling (BIM) and integration of BIM fundamentals towards building performance assessment.
  • Prerequisites: Graduate standing with an undergraduate degree in engineering or consent of instructor. Qualified undergraduate students may enroll with consent of instructor.
  • Course status: Technical elective

Specific Goals for the course:

  • Student learning outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course the student shall be able to:
    • Understand architectural design principles, such as: form, space, organization, circulation, proportion, and scale.
    • Apply knowledge of BIM concepts and applications, BIM software (REVIT), and usage of BIM tools in architectural engineering.
    • Read and critically analyze papers in the technical literature on BIM and high- performance buildings.
    • Identify how BIM can support and improve multi-criteria assessment of high- performance buildings
    • Analyze, and discuss in a group-setting, contemporary Architecture, BIM and performance criteria towards better quantification of energy and environmental issues facing our global society.
    • Evaluate the interoperability between BIM-based model and Building Performance Simulations (BPS) through a rigorous course project.
    • Prepare and review written and oral technical communication.
    • Become conversant with architects and BIM modelers they will work with in industry.
  •  Relationship of course to program outcomes
    • Outcome 1: An ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science and mathematics.
    • Outcome 5: An ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives.

Topics:

  • ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN THEORY AND FUNDAMENTALS
    • Introduction, constitution of our built environment, form and space principle, organization and circulation in buildings, proportion and scale, fundamental architectural principles.
  • INTRODUCTION TO BUILING INFORMATION MODELING
    • Application of architectural design principles to engineering design process, building with BIM, BIM execution plans, BIM as life cycle platform-construction, fabrication, post construction.
  • CORE TECHNOLOGIES
    • BIM platforms, hierarchy of dataset, combined model method, central model method, distributed model methods, model operator collaboration, model method precision and validity.
  • FUNDAMETALS OF PARAMETRIC MODELING
    • Object based parametric modeling, libraries, quadric, splines, non-uniform B-splines, patch representation, computational problems, space names, property and attribute handling, database management, BIM server, level of detail.
  • INTEROPERABILITY
    • Structure of industry foundation classes, levels tree, schemas, property sets, model view definitions, information delivery manual, omni class, construction operation building information exchange, standardization efforts.
  • INTEGRATION OF BIM FUNDAMETALS TOWARDS BUILING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMNET
    • Energy performance and environmental performance of buildings, interoperability, performance simulation and assessment methods