Methodological Framework for BIM-Based Design Automation Script Development and Testing

Building design is complex and challenging and the unique nature of each project limits the ability to automate design tasks. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is commonly to manage building design and collaboration between teams and there is a plug-in (“Dynamo”) that supports task automation. The partner organization has developed several ad-hoc BIM automation scripts, but these are typically poorly documented, support a limited number of tasks or specific project types, and many no longer function, limiting their value. To support more widespread design automation, the proposed research will develop and test a strategy to guide both the revision of these existing scripts to make them more flexible, ‘smart’, and generalizable and develop new scripts to support other design automation. The partner organization will benefit from the development of a holistic design automation strategy and supporting tools (processes, templates, and evaluation frameworks) to implement it.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer McArthur

Student:

Partner:

Smith + Andersen

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

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