01
Introduction to BIM

BIM Introduction, Concepts and Methodologies (2 h): Summary on the growing challenges faced by the construction industry in Europe. Introduction to the digital transformation of the construction sector and the built environment through BIM. BIM definition and historical background. Overview on the main BIM digital tools, platforms and technologies.

Revit: Initiation Part I (2 h) & Part II (2 h): Navigating the Autodesk Revit workspace and interface. Standard terminology. Starting projects. Viewing commands. Creating levels and grids. Linking and Importing CAD Files. General modelling tools. Selecting, editing and modifying elements. Create section views and BOQs.

Revit: Template definition and Management (2 h): Applying, modifying, creating and managing view templates. Creating and managing project templates. Using Family templates.

Revit: Family Creation (2 h): Revit Families: System families, loadable families and in-place families. Creating family elements: Extrusions, blends, revolve, sweep and sweep blends. Adding tools: controls, Openings, lines, components. Creating Family Types. Visibility display settings. Understanding Instance and Type Parameters. Shared, family and project parameters.

02
BIM in Sustainable Construction

Sustainability - new definitions and challenges in the contemporary paradigm

Integration of sustainable solutions from the first stages of design through BIM. Measuring holistic sustainability using BIM.
Case study - Sustainability through BIM.

03
Photorealistic Rendering

Presentation of tools for the conversion of barebone 3d models to photorealistic renderings for images or animations including realistic backdrop context.

04
BIM Coordination

Revit: Understanding Shared Coordinates (1 h): Revit coordinates: relative to origin, relative to project base point and relative to survey point. Finding the origin point. Configuring project north and true north. Understanding elevation. Getting coordinates from CAD and DWG files. Saving shared coordinates.

Revit: Federated Models (1 h): Linking Revit files. Positioning files according to coordinate system. Managing Links. Worksets.

BIM Methodologies Coordination (1 h): BIM collaboration methodologies and technologies. Quality Control: visual checks, interference checks, standard checks and model integrity checks.

BIM IFC (1 h): Overview on buildingSMART and openBIM. Introduction to IFC. IFC export from Revit. IFC viewer.

Navisworks: Coordination (1 h): Navigating the Autodesk Navisworks workspace and interface. Standard terminology. Starting projects. Viewing commands. Linking files.

Navisworks: Templates (2 h): The use of views on the creation of templates on Navisworks and their later application for additional exporting and application of consistent settings across views 

Navisworks: Clash Detection (2 h): Use of Navisworks for detection of interferences and collisions across multidisciplinary (Architectural, Structural and MEP) models, along with the extraction of comprehensive clash detection reports and help on conflict resolution.

05
BIM Execution Plan

BIM Execution Plan (BEP) (2 h): Understanding the need for a BIM Execution Plan (BEP). Documenting the basic project information. Specifying project milestones. Identifying BIM goals and uses. Determining how BIM will be used in design documentation. Designing the BIM execution process. Defining the LOD in the BIM Execution Plan. Determining the information that needs to be in the model. Collaboration procedures. Defining the software to be used.

06
Integration of BIM and Structural Models

Robot Fundamentals I (2 h): Overview on tools of automatic calculation of structures. The software Robot. Basic definitions: job preferences, structural axes, geometry definition, sections, materials, supports.

Robot Fundamentals II (2 h): Load definition and load combinations. Contours and panels. Finite element mesh generation. Calculation. Analysis of results based on diagrams and maps.

Robot Steel Design (2 h): Steel design of metallic frames based on Eurocodes. Steel connection design. Drawings.

Robot Reinforced Concrete Design (2 h): Methodologies of RC design: detailed and simplified. RC design of foundations, beams and columns based on Eurocodes. Drawings.

Integration Robot-Revit Part I (2 h) & Part II (2 h): Structural tools, Analytical tools and parameters, Analytical model correction tools and Loads in Autodesk Revit. Model transfer to Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis (section and material mapping).

Building analysis and design in Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis. Data transfer from Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis to Autodesk Revit (section and material mapping).

07
BIM Automation

BIM Methodologies: Automation (1 h): Historical background on the use of automation. Industrial Automation and Industry 4.0. Algorithms and programming. Robotics.

Dynamo: Introduction (1 h): Navigating the Dynamo workspace and interface. Nodes, groups and organizing a script. Code blocks and lacing. Lis management. Custom Nodes and package manager.

Dynamo: Creation of subroutines in Revit (2 h): Placing families through dynamo. Creating a wall along a line. Linking data between excel and a MEP model. Converting a CAD drawing into a Revit model.

Dynamo: Creation of subroutines in Robot (2 h): Introduction to structural analysis for dynamo package. Creating a 2D Frame. Creating a 3D dome. Creating a 3D Frame.

08
BIM Facility Management

Overview of capital and operational expenses, organization wide in order to assess total cost of ownership with granular detail including costs on leases, fixed assets, maintenance, utilities, etc.

Design strategies for short, medium and long-term needs and optimization of real estate portfolios with metrics, automation, with BIM integration.

09
BIM Trends and Innovation

The application of new methodologies on the automatic development of models "as-built" applied on surveying, rehabilitation projects or detection of pathologies. The use of laser scanners and the integration of cameras on UAV's for remote acquisition of images on non-accessible structures of structural parts. Point-clouds and photogrammetry software.