International Journal of Engineering & Technology

A Process for Integrating Civil and Architectural Data in the AEC Projects: Case Study in South Korea
International Journal of Engineering & Technology

ABSTRACT

This paper aims to propose a process toefficiently integrate and manage architectural and civil data in the design and construction stages of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) projects using building information modeling (BIM) and civil information modeling (CIM) technologies. The proposed method helps practitioners to understand complex geometries and unknown spaces of  AEC projects by producing accurate integrated models, thereby reducing the number of design and construction errors detected on site and improving the process of decision making. It can integrate drawings of architectural and civil elements, drawings and maps of geology and topogra-phy of earth, 3D survey results, and other measured data. In order to validate the applicability of the proposed process, it was applied to the Gwangmyeong Cave project in South Korea. In the case, dozens of GB of 3D survey data were successfully converted to a less than 100 MB BIM model.

Keywords:Data Integration; Architectural Data; CivilData,Building InformationModeling(BIM); Civil Information Modeling(CIM); Process

Authors Jongsung Won, Seonwoo Kim, Honghyun Kim, Jaeyub KimSchool of Architecture, Korea National University of Transportation, South Korea Syntegrate Limited, Hong Kong, China, Syntegrate LLC., South Korea

https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/18900/8666

This  paper  proposed  a  process  for  integrating  architectural  data, including  BIM  models  and  architectural  drawings,  and  civil  data, including  CIM  models,  3D  survey  data,  and  maps  of  the  geology and  topography  of  the  earth.  The  proposed  process  helps  to  ex-plain  complex  geometries,  to  reduce  the  number  of  design  and construction errorsdetected on site, and to improve decision mak-ing processes by providing accurate geometry information of AEC projects. The proposed method was applied to an actual project to check its applicability and was validated. However, its quantitative effects on the project were not analyzed in this paper. Therefore, it will  be  implemented  to  various  projects  to  quantitatively  analyze its impacts on cost and schedule of the projects.

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