BIMAC 2021 International Conference Took Place at SPbGASU
On April 21–23, the 4th International Conference on BIM in Construction and Architecture (BIMAC 2021) was held in an online format at SPbGASU.
Architectural objects in St. Petersburg (presentation by the joint team of authors from SPbGASU and KGIOP)
Welcoming the participants, the Head of the Department of Computer Science Aleksey Semenov, PhD, commented on the conference materials submitted this year: “A lot of works are devoted to laser scanning, virtual and augmented reality. Some works deal with the operation stage – it proves we are moving further on from the design and construction phase, and BIM technologies are actively developing".
Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services, Associate Professor at the Department of Water Use and Ecology Yuri Stolbikhin, PhD, told about the BIM-ICE project (‘BIM Integration in Higher and Continuing Education’), as the conference was part of the project activities. The project is carried out jointly with LAB University of Applied Sciences (Finland) and aims to raise the level of knowledge of students and teachers in the field of information modelling. “Right now, the university is holding an internal BIM championship. In addition, since the beginning of February, students from the two universities have been jointly working on creating four models of small industrial buildings. The teams include nine third-year students from the SPbGASU Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services, who are responsible for engineering networks”, he said.
Representative of LAB University of Applied Sciences Timo Lehtoviita shared information on the current state and future of the ‘Open BIM’ approach in Finland. Open BIM is a collaborative process based on open standards and workflows that allow different stakeholders to share their data and foster better teamwork. According to a survey conducted in 13 Finnish universities, most of them have been implementing BIM for more than six years, and many responders believe that BIM will play an increasingly important role.
1. Open BIM (Timo Lehtoviita’s presentation)
2. Renovation (Timo Lehtoviita’s presentation)
A joint team of authors from SPbGASU and the St. Petersburg Committee for the State Inspection and Protection of Historic and Cultural Monuments (KGIOP) have developed a rationale for the use of information modelling in the field of conservation of architectural and urban heritage. Acting Head of the Department of Geodesy, Land Management and Cadastres at SPbGASU Aleksey Volkov, PhD, and Master’s student Daniil Tyulkin together with representatives of KGIOP Ksenia Gubinskaya, Nikolay Dyakonov and Artyom Eryomenko noted that BIM application for protecting architectural and urban heritage looks very promising. It can help not just to save an object’s smallest elements, but also to form databases on these objects and their characteristics based on photography, electronic laser scanning and other techniques.
BIMAC 2021 organizers invite specialists to cooperate in the framework of the BIM-ICE project, to take part in various project activities including courses, student championships and the next year’s BIM conference.
Text: Tatyana Petrova
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