ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURAL DESIGN CAPABILITY OF BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING (BIM) TOOLS IN BUILDING INDUSTRY OF PAKISTAN

In Pakistan, lack of adoption of modern automated designs tools have kept the drafting, designing and construction industry, unintegrated. Almost all draftsman provide their architecture design in AutoCAD with a lot of limitation. These limitation tends to create hurdles for structural engineer while designing. After design detailing in AutoCAD and preparation of BOQ and cost estimation in a non-interoperable software is a tedious work and require time. The Architecture Engineer and Construction (AEC) trades needs such techniques to drop project rate, delivery time and increase quality, efficiency and productivity. Building Information Modeling technology can be used as a choice to get above mention parameters in which an accurate BIM model is constructed in software which is used for planning, designing and construction of the facility. In this paper BIM tools Revit and Robot structural analysis professional software are used for design and analysis of structure and in ETABs software for cross check. Detailing, BOQ and cost estimation reports are prepared at the end.