Bim for Landscape Architecture

175 Pages·2016·13.04 MB·English

by  Landscape Institute

BIM for Landscape
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is transforming working practices across the
built environment sector, as clients, professionals, contractors and manufacturers
throughout the supply chain grasp the opportunities that BIM presents. The first
book ever to focus on the implementation of BIM processes in landscape and exter-
nal works, BIM for Landscape will help landscape professionals understand what
BIM means for them. This book is intended to equip landscape practitioners and
practices to meet the challenges and reap the rewards of working in a BIM environ-
ment – and to help professionals in related fields to understand how BIM processes
can be brought into landscape projects. BIM offers significant benefits to the land-
scape profession, and heralds a new chapter in interdisciplinary relationships. BIM for
Landscape shows how BIM can enhance collaboration with other professionals and
clients, streamline information processes, improve decision-making and deliver well-
designed landscape projects that are right first time, on schedule and on budget.
This book looks at the organisational, technological and professional practice
implications of BIM adoption. It discusses in detail the standards, structures and
information processes that form BIM Level 2-compliant workflows, highlighting the
role of the landscape professional within the new ways of working that BIM entails.
It also looks in depth at the digital tools used in BIM projects, emphasising the ‘infor-
mation’ in Building Information Modelling, and the possibilities that data-rich models
offer in landscape design, maintenance and management. BIM for Landscape will
be an essential companion to the landscape professional at any stage of their BIM
journey.
The Landscape Institute is the professional body for landscape architects. It is
an educational charity and chartered body responsible for protecting, conserving
and enhancing the natural and built environment for the benefit of the public. It
champions well-designed and well-managed urban and rural landscape to inspire
great places where people want to live, work and visit. To find out more about the
Landscape Institute, visit www.landscapeinstitute.org
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BIM for Landscape
The Landscape Institute
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First published 2016
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2016 The Landscape Institute
The right of Landscape Institute to be identified as author of this work has been
asserted by it in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent
to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record for this book has been requested
ISBN: 978-1-138-79668-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-75771-1 (ebk)
Typeset in Frutiger
by Keystroke, Station Road, Codsall, Wolverhampton
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Contents
List of figures vii
Preface by Noel Farrer ix
Foreword by David Philp xi
Acknowledgements and credits xiii
PART I
PREPARATION 1
Introduction to Part I 1
1 Introduction 5
2 Understanding BIM 9
3 Prerequisites 20
4 Documents 25
5 Collaborators 31
6 Roles 39
7 The BIM Implementation Plan 42
PART II
IMPLEMENTATION 53
Introduction to Part II 53
8 Employer’s Information Requirements 55
9 Pre-contract 66
10 Post-contract BIM Execution Plan 74
11 Information management 83
12 Role responsibilities 92
13 Surveys 100
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14 Post-completion 106
15 Landscape management and maintenance 112
PART III
TECHNOLOGY 117
Introduction to Part III 117
16 Digital tools 119
17 Digital models 128
18 BIM files 132
19 LoD 138
20 Interoperability 142
21 The future 148
Appendix: Sample product data template 151
Glossary 154
Index 158
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Figures
1.1 A visualisation based on a Building Information Model 6
1.2 The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 7
2.1 The Bew–Richards BIM Maturity Model or BIM wedge 10
2.2 Inception, brief and commencement phase 12
2.3 Design and construction phase 13
2.4 Handover and aftercare phase 14
3.1 Combining datasets in the visual analysis process 22
4.1 The pillars of BIM 26
5.1 The MacLeamy curve 32
5.2 Communication on a BIM project 33
5.3 Upstream, downstream and parallel stakeholders 36
6.1 How the BIM Level 2 roles relate to one another 40
7.1 Implementation cycle 43
7.2 Implementation flow 43
8.1 Contents of an EIR 57
8.2 An example Model Production and Delivery Table 58
8.3 Clients’ strategic purposes proforma 63
8.4 BIM competence assessment 64
9.1 Employer’s pre-project decision-making process 67
9.2 An example RACI table 69
9.3 An example team roster 69
9.4 An example skills register 70
9.5 Project stage deliverables 71
10.1 How the collaborative process develops in a BIM Level 2 project 74
10.2 An EIR issued to multiple tiers 75
10.3 An example Information Delivery Plan layout 78
11.1 How the BIM Level 2 standards relate to each other 84
11.2 The Common Data Environment 86
11.3 Suitability codes 87
11.4 The information delivery – production table 89
12.1 BIM Level 2 roles as they may otherwise be known 92
12.2 BIM roles and their potential overlaps 93
12.3 Volumes 98
12.4 Task teams and the project team 98
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viii Figures
13.1 Slope analysis 101
16.1 Generating conceptual models 121
16.2 Visualisations 122
16.3 Delivering design information across the supply chain 123
16.4 Masterplanning in 3D 124
17.1 Physical modelling 129
17.2 Complex multidisciplinary designs in BIM 130
18.1 COBie hierarchy for infrastructure 133
18.2 COBie hierarchy for buildings 133
18.3 COBie colour codes 134
18.4 COBie sheets 135
18.5 IFC customisation 135
18.6 IFC information modelling 136
19.1 Level of Detail 139
19.2 Level of Information 140
20.1 Information exchange planning matrix 144
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Preface
I welcome this book. It is timely and demonstrates the landscape profession’s leader-
ship in the field. It will be a helpful resource, not only for landscape practitioners, but
also for fellow professionals in related fields starting to understand the application
of BIM to landscape works. This will provide an invaluable early guide to elements
of good practice.
Noel Farrer, PLI
President of the Landscape Institute
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