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BIM: from sketch to digital twin

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

About this Course

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If you want to master the basic tools of the modern design and civil engineer and to look into the future of architectural design, construction and maintenance of buildings, this course is for you. Building information models and digital twins became a necessity in planning, design, building design and building operations.
During the course, you will acquire basic building information modeling skills, create your own project, learn how to draw up architectural and construction drawings and develop a construction schedule using modern software systems such as Autodesk Revit and Navisworks.

As you explore advanced BIM tools, you will learn how to script in Dynamo and how to collaborate on projects and construction in BIM360. In the final part of the course you will learn what digital twin of building is and how it can be used to predict all the operational costs of building maintenance. 

We hope, that the course "BIM: from sketch to digital twin" will guide you into the world of Building Information Modeling. Upon completion of the course, you will receive the core competencies required to successfully launch your career in the field of Building Information Modeling.

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 27 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

Skills you will gain

Autodesk Revit ArchitectureBuilding Information Modeling (BIM)ArchitectureCivil Engineering

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Flexible deadlines

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 27 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has a long-standing and successful history over 100 years where a great deal of important discoveries and inventions have been made. It was founded in 1899.

SPbPU has recently become the "National Research University" – a recognized Russian and international leader in the field of engineering and economic education with a rich educational, scientific and innovation infrastructure. The University is a member of Academic Excellence program among Russian Universities “5-100-2020”. SPbPU is listed in the QS World University Rankings (471-480) and Times Higher Education (113th position among European universities). SPbPU is a leading university of Russia with over than 26 000 students and postgraduates, 4500 of them are foreign citizens from 115 countries. The University is carrying out education and research activities in the following areas: natural science, engineering, economics and humanities. SPbPU trains specialists in 49 Bachelor Degree programs and 200 Master Degree programs, including 20 international Master Degree programs taught in English, 90 PhD programs and Doctorate programs. The University is proud of its longstanding traditions of international cooperation with many foreign educational institutions, research organizations and industrial companies. Among the partners of the University are 293 universities and 90 partner companies from 68 countries.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

2 hours to complete

BIM Concept

Welcome to Module 1! Our speakers will present you the concept of BIM from sketch to digital twin. This week's practical course starts by installation of the Autodesk software: Revit Autodesk and Navisworks. You will be able to become the part of Autodesk Community and get free access to Autodesk software. Now when you are able to run Revit, enjoy its interface and get yourself familiar with the start screen and main panels. Enjoy working with files and navigation.

2 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 24 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes

6 videos

Course Introduction2m

BIM Concept3m

1.1 Revit and Navisworks installation 9m

2.1 Revit start screen1m

2.2 Main panels3m

2.3 Navigation2m

5 readings

Welcome to the course. Syllabus5m

Introductory survey1m

Join us1m

Additional reading materials20m

Additional reading materials15m

3 practice exercises

Get access and download Revit and Navisworks5m

Revit setup and interface5m

Test. Module 120m

Week

Week 2

8 hours to complete

Building Information Modeling

Welcome to Module 2! Now you are ready for in-depth knowledge. Our speakers will present you the background of BIM and Architectural model. You will review Revit modelling possibilities, by getting familiar with several projects of Saint-Petersburg Polytechnical university students. You will be able to and start with your own BIM model. This week's material starts by creation shapes and areas and proceeds to creation building informational model. You will learn how to work with the area, boundaries and grid. Once you have finished this week, you will be able to: design your own building by creating the walls and the roof, structural elements, doors and windows, levels of building, furniture and exterior and interior design features. You will be able to create topoplan using Toposurface in Massing&Site and to work with the building systems using MEP families.

8 hours to complete

26 videos (Total 218 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes

26 videos

Building Information Modeling. Introduction1m

Building Information Modeling.Architectural model1m

3.1 Adaptives start6m

3.2 Areas40m

3.3 Grids and levels16m

3.4 Wall creation27m

3.5 Doors and Windows7m

3.6 Floor creation7m

3.7 Roof creation7m

3.8 Foundations2m

3.9 Ceilings1m

3.10 Columns3m

3.11 Railings5m

3.12 Stair creation17m

3.13 Furniture and components14m

3.14 Model in context8m

3.15 Room creation7m

Building Information Modeling. Creation a site around the building1m

4.1 Link to the file with the architectural model3m

4.2 Toposurface creation4m

4.3 Toposurface using floors7m

4.4 Сreation of the finished model3m

Building Information Modeling. MEP systems design1m

5.1 Link to the file with the architectural model2m

5.2 MEP principles4m

5.3 Ducts creation9m

3 readings

Additional reading materials1h 30m

Additional reading materials30m

3 practice exercises

Building model development10m

Toposurface creation5m

MEP projecting5m

Week

Week 3

7 hours to complete

Basic work with BIM-Information

Welcome to Module 3! This week 's material is devoted to basic work with BIM information. You will learn how to create schedules for different purposes and how to make material schedule using Material Takeoff tool. Once you have finished this week, you will be able to: moderate schedules for different groups of objects like rooms, structural elements, doors and windows, etc.

7 hours to complete

18 videos (Total 152 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes

18 videos

Basic work with BIM-Information. Introduction1m

Basic work with BIM-Information. Schedules1m

6.1 Schedule types 2m

6.2 Schedule creation18m

6.3 Schedule of doors4m

6.4 Material Takeoff6m

Basic work with BIM-Information. Preparation of drawings1m

7.1 Dimensions12m

7.2 Tagging12m

7.3 View properties and templates15m

7.4 Sections8m

7.5 Sheets9m

Basic work with BIM-Information. Project presentation1m

8.1 Setting up views13m

8.2 Rendering in Revit16m

8.3 Stereopanorama7m

8.4 Twinmotion render13m

8.5 Render examples4m

3 readings

Additional reading materials40m

Additional reading materials1h

3 practice exercises

Schedule5m

Sheets formation5m

Model visualization5m

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Coordination, Management and Quality Control

Welcome to Module 4! At the beginning we will demonstrate you how to work with the coordinate systems for complicated projects properly. One big project usually consists of huge number of projects. Just imagine BIM City with more than thousands of Revit files which represent virtual city. You will get familiarized with two different coordinate systems. Then you will learn how to manage and to control BIM project. We will use Navisworks software, a powerful program which allows to monitor, manage, combine projects, etc. You will be able to see your building from different View and manage the project by editing Revit elements and families. Did you know you can use Viewpoints of Navisworks to present project? We will show you simulating construction process. You will get an opportunity to create reviews in the project. The best tool in Navisworks to define intersections in elements is clash detectives. The essence of BIM consists mostly in opportunities to predict possible faults and intersections in comparison with CAD. Once you have finished this week, you will be able to: you will learn how to consider this tool in order to learn define clashes.

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 66 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

9 videos

Coordination, Management and Quality Control. Introduction1m

Coordination, Management and Quality Control. Project coordination1m

9.1 Project coordination12m

9.2 Monitorng and collaboration7m

Coordination, Management and Quality Control. Quality control in Navisworks56s

10.1 Navisworks project creation8m

10.2 Navisworks views7m

10.3 Navisworks Review features12m

10.4 Navisworks Clash detective15m

2 readings

Additional reading materials30m

Additional reading materials45m

3 practice exercises

Project coordination5m

Navisworks Clash detective5m

Test. Module 420m

Week

Week 5

6 hours to complete

Advanced BIM tools

Welcome to Module 5! This week is devoted to Advanced BIM applying. Dynamo is a graphical programming interface that lets you customize your building information workflow. first you will evaluate Dynamo logic in Revit to be able to use its advanced tool. We will demonstrate you how to use Dynamo player which allows to run created scripts and edit them. At the second part of the module you will be demonstrated multifunctional platform that allows to collect information about all work process as well as participants of construction. It's called BIM 360. Now you know how to manage daily workflow of any project stage using access to the platform via mobile or laptops. You will get new knowledge how to use Revit cloud work-sharing service, where designers can organize collaboration through BIM 360. At the end of the module you will be immersed in 4D modeling using Navisworks. We will show you how to create schedules with current workflow dates.

6 hours to complete

16 videos (Total 92 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes

16 videos

Advanced BIM tools. Introduction 1m

Advanced BIM tools. Programming in Dynamo1m

11.1 Dynamo wall script7m

11.2 Dynamo beams script6m

11.3 Dynamo player2m

Advanced BIM tools. BIM3602m

12.1 BIM 360 concept3m

12.2 BIM 360 Docs13m

12.3 BIM 360 Design4m

12.4 BIM 360 Build6m

12.5 BIM 360 Analytics2m

Advanced BIM tools. 4D modeling in Navisworks 1m

13.1 Navisworks 4D logic3m

13.2 Navisworks 4D Schedule23m

13.3 Schedule setting up6m

13.4 Schedule update in Navisworks6m

3 readings

Additional reading materials30m

Additional reading materials1h

Additional reading materials40m

3 practice exercises

Programming in Dynamo5m

BIM 3605m

Schedule in Navisworks5m

Week

Week 6

1 hour to complete

Digital twins of buildings

Welcome to Module 6! This is the final week of the course and this week you understand what digital twin stands for and you will be able to observe it in Project Dasher.

1 hour to complete

3 videos (Total 22 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

3 videos

14.1 As built model5m

14.2 Digital twins of buildings9m

14.3 Project Dasher 6m

2 readings

Congratulations1m

Final survey1m

2 practice exercises

Digital twins10m

Test. Module 620m

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BIM: from sketch to digital twin

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