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Vincent Ip
This paper presents a comprehensive interoperability workflow achieved between Rhino and Revit through Rhino-Inside. The study focuses on two case studies with different building type, where both of their curtainwalls utilize the integration of Rhino and Revit with two discrete workflow through Rhino-Inside. This integration enables the manipulations of Revit families through Grasshopper, seamlessly integrating a design platform with a BIM platform, harnessing the power of parametric design and data synchronization across platforms.
The first case study delves into a healthcare project that explores through modeling capabilities of Rhino, and interoperability of Rhino.inside, allowing a one-way lightweight import over to Revit. This case study demonstrates the potential for enhancing creativity and design exploration while keeping streamlined twin model for early phrase Revit development.
The second case study explores the Rhino-inside control further, where through Grasshopper, the Rhino model gets disassembled into the most basic understanding of Revit native curtainwalls, and leverages Rhino-inside to manipulate parameters on the model to establish a bidirectional data flow. This bidirectional data flow ensures that changes made in either Rhino or Revit are seamlessly integrated across both platforms, fostering a synchronized and updated project representation.
Through these two case studies, this paper highlights the transformative potential of the Rhino-Inside framework in enhancing interoperability between Rhino and Revit. The case study presents the significance of an integrated workflow that serves as a testament to the continual evolution of software interoperability, enabling professionals to explore innovative design solutions and streamline the design, BIM management, and construction documentation process.
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Mahsa Farid Mohajer • Ajla Aksamija
Integration and interoperability between Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Energy Modeling (BEM) tools pose major challenges for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. BIM to BEM workflow should steer the users towards the design and analysis of energy efficient building shapes, spaces, systems, and envelope properties. In this research, BEM tools from three categories of BIM-integrated, BIM-interoperable, and BIM-separated BEM tools were selected to evaluate BIM to BEM data sharing formats and interoperability capabilities. For this purpose, case study buildings located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus were selected to develop the BIM- and BEM-models. Case study buildings’ actual energy data was collected and used to comparatively analyze the simulation results. The results of this comprehensive study on several BEM tools indicated that even though BIM to BEM workflows have substantially improved from the initial stages, further developments on BIM-BEM interoperability are necessary to achieve fully integrated and collaborative workflows. Future developments should address the following issues: 1) interoperability schemas need to be developed to store and transfer all the details incorporated in the BIM model, such as thermal characteristics of the facade assembly, shading and glazing information; 2) space and zone types data within the BIM-model should be automatically transferred to BEM-models, rather than requiring manual input of data or assignment of one thermal zone per space; and 3) capabilities of BEM tools’ should be extended, enabling modelling of complex building geometries, as they influence buildings’ area and performance simulation/prediction. Additionally, the need for manual repair of the BEM-model after BIM to BEM data transfer should be eliminated/reduced.
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John Medina • Jorge Moya • Maria Moral • Guillermo Saavedra
Building façade inspections have multiple objectives, such as forensic investigation of a failure, maintenance code compliance, etc. Architects, Engineers, and technicians doing façade inspections must gather all the technical information needed to be used by others. General contractors, building managers, lawyers, and other forensic investigators use this information obtained during the façade inspections. The results of the façade inspections must be clear, objective and traceable.
Traceable information requires that every deficiency/defect receives a unique identification that allows other professionals to follow its evolution since the day it was discovered/reported, up to the day when it is addressed. The data management aspects of traceability identify and reference the necessary requirements for capturing and sharing data using a simple model.
This simple model has been developed. This method can be used to report and trace all the deficiencies discovered during façade inspections. This method is based on the use of databases that allow for the identification of every deficiency and links all the information that must be prepared for others. The deficiencies are recorded according to the severity of the defect and the time required to be resolved. The simplicity of the software’s interface accelerates the data entry and the management of the information. The database software responds to these questions: What (what is the deficiency?), Where (where is it precisely located in the facade?), When (required time for repair?), and Who (who is responsible for the defect and/or repair?).
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