Component creation of an industrialized formwork for columns through a BIM platform

Abstract

In the Brazilian industry, few construction companies have very detailed and accurate formwork projects, resulting in waste, lack of planning, and delays. Thereupon, the objective of this paper was to incorporate the precepts of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the industrialized column formwork product, that, because of its complexity, the graphic representation in 2D CAD lacks information and requires a lot of time in its development. It can be said that the most immediate benefits of BIM are the greater efficiency and productivity in the project documentation, which through the parameters, project information is generated automatically and more accurately. The modeling process prioritized the component's performance over its appearance, regarding some national and international manuals and standards. Before the actual modeling, family planning was carried out, then a parametric program was used, so that the nested families, parameters, rules, and links could be inserted into the family editor. The BIM project proved to be effective in terms of its automation and generation of quantitative in the project, however, as it is still a new product in the Brazilian industry, lacking in the attribution of information for 4D planning, maintenance, and logistics.