BIM

SERVICE:

Masera Engineering Group has chosen for years now to introduce the change in the approach to design increasingly aimed at digitization and innovation. This change involves the transition from traditional design to a new development model by providing a single intelligent information process and representing an effective operational method to provide services for sustainability protocols. All this has a name: Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIM has thus enabled us to:

create an open ecosystem that dialogues and shares information;
Have an operational method to serve sustainability protocols;
enhance supply chain knowledge, reducing costs, time and uncertainties;
enable us to anticipate decisions.

I-BIM

Infrastructure-Building Information Modeling (I-BIM) is the digital management system for infrastructure construction information processes now in widespread use in companies. The benefits collected by Masera Engineering Group included having a tool for interaction between all disciplines and sharing information at all levels of design, so that the work is always on track and synergistic. A fluidity of sharing could be experienced, which is an added benefit in facilitating dialogue and stakeholder feedback.

BIM, parametric engineering and interoperability with FEM

Parametric engineering involves the creation of a flexible geometric model that incorporates parameters and numerical relationships between them using visual programming codes. Repetitive operations are automatized, allowing the model to be updated by changing input data. Therefore, the parametric model becomes an optimal framework that offers multiple solutions based on the values imposed for each parameter, without the need to redefine the model. Through the parametric approach, a complete workflow is defined that allows the development of both the FEM model for structural analysis and the BIM model with geometric and nongeometric information. This methodology ensures the interaction and synchronization of both models.

BIM and life cycle

BIM can be profitably used as a tool for assessing the environmental sustainability of infrastructure works and their life cycle assessment (LCA). The LCA methodology is characterized by high computational complexity and a large amount of data, which is a barrier to the use of LCA in the infrastructure sector. It is in this complexity and the high amount of data that Building Information Modeling is placed, as a support for the storage and optimized management of all information for the construction market. Indeed, BIM is able to manage the large amount of information from an LCA analysis, offering the possibility of managing, in an integrated way, a complex system of information.