THE BENEFITS OF USING BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM) IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Abstract

This graduation project is a research about the concept of building information modeling (BIM) in Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry (AEC). This research takes in many conceptions starting with the bibliographic study that mainly focuses on the definition, history and development of BIM besides that the major implementation challenges and benefits as well as BIM in green buildings and smart cities. Then BIM for civil and structural engineering and its internal workflow along with its implementation in infrastructure. Finally, the most important step of this research which is the structural modeling and analysis using BIM tools and understanding the integration between these tools and how it makes a complete process