Einsatz von BIM im Hochbau - Effekte auf die Tragwerksplanung

BIM in Building Structures - Effects on Structural Engineering

Building information modeling - shortly called BIM - is currently very popular among architects, civil engineers and the building industry. Everybody knows it, everybody does it and every software is surely BIM-capable, but nearly everybody has a different interpretation of BIM. The authors of this report tackle this topic from the structural engineer's point of view. They show what the state-of-the-practice from their point of view is and describe how BIM is changing the way of working for structural engineers. The authors adopt not only the perspective of engineers, but also of draftsmen. It is shown that BIM forces engineers to stop using their usual plane structural models and to start consequently using spatial models. In the near future draftsmen will stop drawing buildings by lines, but they will start to design buildings by using intelligent objects.