AE 440BIM Data Management and Analytics for Multi-disciplinary Integration

3 credits · Architectural Engineering · Penn State

This course provides students with fundamental knowledge of Building Information Modeling (BIM) applications in a whole project lifecycle, BIM-based data analysis, data visualization, and multi-disciplinary coordination. The Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operation (AECO) industry generates a large amount of data every day, with BIM playing a critical role in the design, construction, and operation of buildings. This course addresses techniques and tools for extracting, revising, analyzing, and visualizing BIM data to support multi-disciplinary coordination and predict building design and construction performance based on BIM data. A team project enables students from various option areas to use BIM tools to visualize and predict design & construction performance based on their interests; for example, to predict construction cost and energy consumption, or to conduct a design constructability check. In addition, this course will provide students with an overview of the future applications of BIM.