Based BIM techniques to clash detection for construction projects

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has brought about a qualitative change in the design and management of construction projects because it represents a digital simulation of the physical characteristics of the build-ing, and this increases its efficiency before the actual construction begins. In Iraq, most construction pro-jects still use CAD two-dimensional drawing for the purpose of the implementation process, especially gov-ernment projects, and this causes many problems due to the difficulty of communication between the vari-ous disciplines involved in the design and misunderstanding during implementation. This type of problem is reduced by combining BIM drawings prepared by designers and making them into a single model. In this process of merging conflicts are found using BIM tools such as Autodesk Navisworks. There are three main types of detection. This article includes how a clash detector can help improve clashes in the design phase before starting to construct a specific building using BIM applications and focuses on hard detection type (overlap of a particular element with the others). The methodology involved in this research is to study an educational building (24-classroom model school) consisting of structural and architectural BIM models only, clash detection analysis is done using Autodesk Revit and Autodesk Navisworks Manage software.