The goals of this class are to introduce students to underlying technical concepts of Building Information Modelling. It addresses students who want to conduct their own research-oriented design and development including software-prototypes such as scripts, plugins and services in research projects.

The main target audiences are :

• students of architecture for research-oriented M1, M2 and M3 in the architecture MSc track,
• students of Construction & Robotics for Integrated Projects and Graduation Projects
• students of Civil Engineering
• all interested students from other tracks

  Previous Knowledge Expected

  Understanding and using basic concepts from Building Information Modelling and respective tools is a prerequisite.

  Objective (Expected Results of Study and Acquired Competences)

  The concepts and technologies include

• Process-modelling for collaboration
• Data Modelling with UML and STEP EXPRESS
• Object-Oriented Design and Programming paradigms
• Data serialization, exchange and interoperability
  • CSV
  • JSON
  • XML
  • STEP
  • RDF variants
• Interoperability standards in AECO :
  • Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) / ISO
  • Information Delivery Manuals (IDM)
  • buildingSMART Data Dictionary / ISO 12006
  • BCF, MVD, IDS
  • domain-specific web-based protocols
• A brief introduction into hands-on scripting BIM with Python
  • hand-on application of topics above using Python Standard modules as well as the BIM-specific ifcopenshell library, Pandas and RDFLib

    Teaching and Learning Method (Transfer of Skills) Workload for Students

    The course is taught in form of lectures with bi-weekly hands-on exercises using a variety of tools.

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