Ghang Lee

TL;DR: The extent to which design and engineering knowledge can be practically embedded in production software for building information modeling (BIM) is explored, and a building object behavior (BOB) description notation and method is developed as a shorthand protocol for designing, validating and sharing the design intent of parametric objects.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D parametric CAD platform for the North American Precast Concrete Software Consortium (PCSC) is described and discussed after a review of solid and parametric modeling with examples from the domain of precast concrete construction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors aim to derive the critical success factors (CSFs) for four questions commonly asked by companies in the first wave of BIM adoption: (1) What are the CSFs for adopting BIM in a company? (2)What are theCSFs for selecting projects to deploy BIM, and (3) what are the CFSs for selecting BIM services? (4) CFSS for selecting company-appropriate BIM software applications.

TL;DR: The case studies show that BIM-based design validation could prevent 4.3-15.2% of construction waste that might have been generated without using BIM that might be generated due to design errors.