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Building Information Modeling breaks
new ground with CVP technologies
Researchers at the Construction Virtual Prototyping (CVP)
Laboratory of the Department of Building and Real Estate have
made great advances in building information modeling (BIM) in
a collaborative project with the Housing Authority (HA) and ABLE
Engineering Ltd. The project for the Tung Tau Cottage Area
Estate (TTCAE) began two years ago, when members of the CVP
lab applied BIM to its design coordination process of TTCAE,
which led to a Hong Kong Autodesk BIM Award for the HA in
2010. Subsequently, ABLE Engineering Ltd. won the tender for
the construction of TTCAE, which is managed with the use of
BIM. Together with the HA and ABLE Engineering Ltd., the CVP
team has launched 3 new technologies, namely, the Interactive
Construction Process Simulator, the BIM coordination workflow,
and a BIM platform for project collaboration that have all
contributed to a streamlining of the entire construction process.
According to Prof. Li Heng, the interactive construction process
simulator is like a flight simulator. Its technology allows
project managers to experiment, validate, and optimize various
construction plans and scenarios in a photo-realistic 3D virtual
environment before they actually start building them. The
introduction of the BIM coordination workflow and the BIM
platform for project collaboration have also benefited the project
team in many ways, chief of which is the efficient operation
of site activities, resulting in more work being accomplished
in less time. Both HA and ABLE Engineering Ltd. have been
appreciative of the technical and consultative support from the
CVP team, which was led by Dr Neo Chan. It is expected that
the TTCAE project will become a successful case study for the
application of BIM.
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