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I'm doing a school research paper on how BIM can influence preservation projects. Has anyone out there done anything like it? I think it's an interesting concept: preservation is more of a case by case process whereas BIM is trying to generalize buildings. What are your thoughts on the matter? Are there short/long term benefits/detriments? What can BIM do for buildings built a hundred years ago? Think about your new projects you're working on today, how would preservation change if we had the Revit file 50, 60, 70 years from now? I can just feel I've only scratched the surface of the concept so any thoughts you have would be great, thanks.
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One of the biggest problems with preservation, adaptive reuse and renovation is the innacuracy due to building shifting, lost or damaged plans, and errors in interpretation because of changed technologies. The drafter who is trained in CAD might look at a drawing that was completed in the 1930s or 40s and not recognize the subtle changes in lineweights, fill patterns and dimensioning that we have become accustomed to. In buildings where foundation shifts are creating problems the BIM model could be used as a reference to help retrofit structural components to hold up to changing forces. In adaptive re-use it helps to create a clear picture of the shell of a structure to modernize and update the aesthetic and functional qualities of the architecture, while keeping the client on the same page visually and conceptually.
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Thanks Michael. Do you think a firm could put together a revit template designed to make preservation projects more efficient? If this were your firm what would you include in such a template (families, documentation, etc)?
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They could, but the issue arises when the project is compared to others that the firm may complete. There might be some particular element that would be worth modeling and saving into a template as a family, such as in neo classical buildings where the facade treatments were made by machine and could be found in more than one project. In more traditional architecture where the elements are made by hand, it might not be efficient to include the families in the template because they won't necessarily be used, and it will unnessicarily increase the file size.
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Good point, file size management seems to be a big issue with Revit projects. If it weren't such a problem I could imagine replicas of intricate moldings being designed in separate programs like Solidworks (programs that could be given to manufacturing companies) and imported into Revit. I guess the reason to import such a model would be to consolidate all the information into one file. What about documentation? Could the template include the documentation necessary in order to get the building on the national/local historic registry?
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