Category: Building Information Modeling

Carbon Accounting Tool (CAT), a new software program, was created with .Net Framework using Visual Studio (VS). A class library was created in VS and associated with Revit API.dll to implement the interface between VS and Revit. The plug-in can read the element materials of the building model and calculate the total amount of embodied … Continue reading Carbon Accounting Tool(CAT) in BIM: An Embodied Carbon Plug-in for Revit

Revit, 3ds Max, Unity 3D, and other software were used as experiments to model the elements in the wall based on the AR foundation and matching existing models with real-world architecture. Different from the tracking location method in other research, a start location was created to make it easier to match the digital with the … Continue reading BIM+AR in Architecture: A Building Maintenance Application for a Smart Phone

Creating a new way of architecture drawing based on machine learning to save architecture or BIM modelers’ time: Based on the BIM data set of an architecture firm, Dynamo (a visual programming language in the Revit) was used to obtain a training set and a test set — two groups of the paired pictures. one … Continue reading Office Floor Plans Generation Based on Generative Adversarial Network

Five BIM aided plugins were planned to be developed in Revit using C# programming language and based on International Building Code 2018 (IBC 2018) as published by the International Code Council (ICC) to assist and check building fire protection design: Tool 1 automatically calculates occupancy load for each room based on the occupant types and … Continue reading Automating Fire Code Compliance using BIM and Revit Plug-ins

Accessible design creates safe living and working spaces for aging people and people with disabilities and allows equal access opportunities for them to integrate into society. As the US population is growing older, accessible design is increasingly important in architecture design and construction. A tool for accessible design standard code checks can provide compliance of … Continue reading A BIM-BASED TOOL FOR ACCESSIBLE DESIGN STANDARD PLAN CHECK

An application running on a mobile device, Soundar, was developed for simple acoustic simulations for small size rooms and for ordinary users. It simulates the reverberation time and sound pressure level based on an existing room, virtual sound source, and the location of the user. Users can change the material of the room surfaces and … Continue reading AUGMENTED REALITY IN ROOM ACOUSTICS: A Simulation Tool for Mobile Devices with Auditory Feedback

A BIM-based mobile AR application, TransBIM, was developed to visualize, edit, and update the building information model in the AR environment, specifically for MEP systems. Changes made in AR can sent back to Revit and Dynamo was used to update the Revit Model. Continue reading Using Building Information Modeling with Augmented Reality: Visualizing and Editing MEP Systems with a Mobile Augmented Reality Application