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:
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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CORE TECHNOLOGIES
- BIM platforms, hierarchy of dataset, combined model method, central model method, distributed model methods, model operator collaboration, model method precision and validity.
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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.
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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.
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INTEGRATION OF BIM FUNDAMETALS TOWARDS BUILING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMNET
- Energy performance and environmental performance of buildings, interoperability, performance simulation and assessment methods