Controlling Quality Design Using BIM Technology

Construction industry and projects have become more involved; noble ideas can be put into play to resolve the complexity, to come up with this ideas, it requires one to have proper communication channels. Quality design is a major point when putting up buildings. UTS has taken into considerations the quality of structures that they construct. They have adopted the BIM, which uses modern technology. In the present days, people or constructing and communicating designs have evolved from paper-based arts to three- dimensional Building Information Model, which facilitates the high-quality design and faster decision making in the construction industry. BIM enhances potential productivity and more efficient work in the building and construction industry in Australia. The construction industry is moving from improving efficiency by lowering cost and time towards the issue of high quality design. With the high demand for controlled quality design, Information Technology has come into play to support human construction plans and implemented a solution to the problem using advanced BIM technology (Azhar, Khalfan, & Maqsood, 2015). IT give room for contractors to examine if design solutions are in line with the expected requirements and satisfy management quality requisitions. In a study done by Wix, it showed that 85% of architects and engineers had an interest in controlled quality design using advanced BIM technology.  

The advanced BIM-based quality design has become one of the major topics of BIM technology research in the IT construction field as it embraces controlled quality design in building as it is seenin UTS. In many cases, BIM quality checking is carried out using the software itself to enable satisfaction of building codes, legislation and other requirements (Jianxin, 2010). Quality checking design constitutes to improved quality design trough detection of faults and any other bits that could be left out in the building plans whereas, during the construction phase, quality checking improves the feasibility of the building's construction design by detection of issues between systems or building elements. The importance of advanced BIM technology has been recognized since it gives room for fast decision making with an organization and guarantees high-quality buildings in construction projects.

Advanced BIM quality design and control

BIM quality checking and oversight is the quality activities that take place in managing a project at each construction phase of the project. Project management incorporates a procedural manner to that ensures that a project being undertaken will meet the required expectations. The activities that examine the objectives, quality policy, and responsibilities and puts them into action by means such as quality control are part of project management (Eadie, Browne, Odeyinka, McKeown, & McNiff, 2013). Under this research, advanced BMI quality control can be referred as making sure that buildings quality requirements are ensured by the use of automated evaluation and inspection. The quality of BIM models is altered by designer's skills and the techniques employed. Quality control in necessary as it reduces errors and time that could have been taken if the process is done manually (Jupp, 2013, July). Of late, automated BIM quality control has been implemented as a project design quality improvement tool (Smith, 2014). Frank Gehry adopted the idea of using BIM to put up the Dr. Chau Wing Building in UTS after a visit to see the old dairy firm in a place known as Ultimo. His single development by use of the BIM technology saw Californian headquarters modeled in a three-dimensional design (Yan, Culp, & Graf, 2011). It also helped architects who were struggling with budgets as with BIM it is possible to control the costs that one is likely to occur during the construction phase (Smith, 2014). This research aims at creating awareness to Austrian people to adopt controlled quality design in their buildings using the Frank Gehry's idea that is the advanced BIM technology.  BIM- Supported teaching and learning at UTS.

Literature Review BIM Implementation Trends

BIM concepts can be followed all the way back to earliest computing times of 1960, and 1970's when solid modeling started to develop. Most people as the source of BIM view ArchiCAD software that was developed in 1982 in Hungary, and Revit software program development constituted to BIM implementation (Motawa & Messener, 2008). There has been a great increase in momentum in the last five years as technology, and implementation issues have improved, the industry has realized great merits from the technology (RICS, 2013). A range of research has come into play to address implementation issues in the industry (Arayici, Coates, Koskela, Kagioglou, Usher & O'reilly, 2011). A survey in 2013 that constituted of 727 contractors in the world largest markets was undertaken to determine the trends of BIM technology in these countries and found that BIM was being adopted in most of these countries at a high rate (Jng & Joo, 2011). According to the survey, countries like US, UK, Germany, France and Canada were rapidly adopting BIM technology.       

Australia

In Australia, advance BIM technology used in the construction industry is not much spread because the government lacks the mandate to legalize BIM projects. In about past five years, BIM interest has become popular as a great number of initiatives participate in creating awareness, inform project stakeholders about the potential outputs, and profit advantage that they could have on embracing advanced BIM technology (Macdonald & Mills, 2011). These initiatives include the National BIM Guide by National Specification, the BIM- MEPAUS models and guidelines and the National Modelling by research center for construction innovation (Manning, & Messner, 2008). The building organization is still at the front line in playing the role in BIM development and implementation in Australia that through an alliance with software vendors to lift the concept of open advanced BIM technology.

Though adopting controlled quality design through BIM technology is low in Australia, UTS has witnessed great and quality services from Frank Ghery’s invention. The UTS construction accommodates many students and staff as its safety has been guaranteed all through since it was put up. 

Research Methodology

It is evident that many countries are adopting advanced BIM technology as it is witnessed in the literature review above. The research methodology to be adopted for the next phase of the study was to analyze key factors in Australia that facilitated successful BIM implementation at UTS. The research designs to be adopted in this study will be descriptive survey and time series model. This two will facilitate complete analysis and updated information that controlled quality design through BIM technology takes at UTS building. The reason for this was to find out the best innovations and practices used in the world that can be utilized by all people in Australia. The outcomes of the study showed that controlled quality design through advanced BIM technology had advantages in the following sectors;

1.Competitive advantage and Business cases

2.Integrated project delivery

Quality of the beam model

1.Legal contracts and BIM protocols

2.Industry leadership and government

References

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Eadie, R., Browne, M., Odeyinka, H., McKeown, C. & McNiff, S. (2013). BIM  implementation throughout UK construction project lifecycle: An analysis.    Automation in Construction, 36, 145-151.

Jianxin, Z. (2010). Study on Barriers to implementing BIM in engineering design industry in  China [J]. Journal of Engineering Management, 24(4), 387-392.

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Jupp, J. (2013, July). Incomplete BIM implementation: Exploring challenges and the role of  product lifecycle management functions. In 10th Product Lifecycle Management for Society (PLM) (pp. 630-640). Springer.

Manning, R., & Messner, J. I. (2008). A case study in BIM implementation for programming of healthcare facilities. Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), 13(18), 246-257.

Macdonald, J. A., & Mills, J. E. (2011). The potential of BIM to facilitate collaborative AEC education. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.American Society of Engineering Education.

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Yan, W., Culp, C., & Graf, R. (2011). Integrating BIM and gaming for real-time interactive  architectural visualization. Automation in Construction, 20(4), 446-458.