If something clashed, if something needed to be moved, the changes could be made in a BIM environment before costly mistakes were made without affecting the cost of the project. Between 20, the power of BIM in the construction industry was the “reduction of duplicated efforts.” Architects began coordinating with engineers, who began coordinating with contractors. Since 2000, the purpose of BIM is to remedy that disconnect. For decades there was a disconnect between the building designers, the contractors and the operators. The building industry was booming, yet even sixteen years ago, it was estimated that the cost to the construction industry due to inefficiency was over $15-billion a year, primarily due to waste and rework.
This library will also be compatible with Revit 2014.Why is BIM needed? From 1964 to 2002, construction efficiency declined despite the widespread use of new technologies in the 1980s and 1990s, including fax machines, cell phones and computer-aided design. BSD sourced most of the materials for this library from SpecLink’s catalog of 620 specification sections, which conform to the 2004 edition of Construction Specifications Institute’s (CSI’s) MasterFormat and the CSI 3-part specifications format. The materials also come complete with asset data. When users apply one of the 1,600 materials in this catalog to a Revit element, such as a wall or floor assembly, the element will automatically link to the associated set of specifications in SpecLink-E. Current SpectLink-E subscribers will be able to activate the associated specifications by using the objects in Revit.Ĭurrent SpecLink-E and Revit 2013 users who can’t wait until September can import another free material library file by BSD that was released in June. For BSD, providing this resource means that Revit users will be employing objects linked to specifications in its construction specifications program, SpecLink-E.
“We think it will be extremely helpful to many architects to have a standardized set of useful objects that are organized to be easily retrievable by relevant properties, such as hourly fire ratings and sound ratings,” he says.Īny Revit 2013 or 2014 user, regardless of whether they subscribe to BSD’s programs, will be able to download this catalog. Courtesy Building Systems Design Detail view of the wall types in BSD's Revit 2013 object catalogīecause Revit’s supplied materials library is limited in number and asset information, Dean says, designers often have to create custom materials or download proprietary objects from manufacturers.
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