Problems in the adoption of BIM for structural rehabilitation
Fernández-Mora, Víctora; Yepes, Víctorb
aUniversitat Politècnica de València, Spain, bICITECH (Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Hormigón), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
Abstract:
In the last years the BIM technology has gained a great importance in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry due to the great advantages that it can provide to this business. Because of this growing interest in BIM technology, nowadays there are a lot of researches and studies being done about its possibilities and inputs to the industry. Some of these are focused in the use of BIM to improve the structural design or as a tool to guarantee a better sustainability assessment through the life cycle analysis. But the biggest part of these researches is centred on improving the results during the design phase developing new parameters that allow the project to deal with new demands from the society to the industry, like sustainability, life cycle analysis, waste management, etc. But this is not the only point where BIM can make a huge difference and benefit the architecture. In this days there exists a huge number of unused dwellings, houses and other buildings that can take advantage from a rehabilitation or renovation and they need to adapt themselves to the new demands of the present codes, which sometimes are hard or tedious to measure and quantify using traditional methods. This article explores the problems of using BIM on the architectonical rehabilitation project putting the main focus on the determination of barriers that are preventing this in the structural rehabilitation. Additionally, some ideas to surpass these problems are proposed and analysed to reach a way to use BIM in the structural rehabilitation project.
Keywords: BIM, Structural problems, Rehabilitation.