THE USE OF BIM BY ARCHITECTURE’S PROFESSIONALS IN CURITIBA

Abstract

Whereas the great problems of AEC industry are the management, exchange and storage of information, highlights the need to adopt new technologies to support the design process in the industry. The need to produce increasingly complex projects, more detailed and in an area of increasingly short time requires high precision and high speed data exchange information. There is, thus, the BIM concept as a potential tool for addressing these barriers. By using this model, which is collaborative, the professionals are involved in different phases of development: project design, planning, budgeting and construction. This paper investigates whether the architect of Curitiba, in his practice, knows the technology tools that use this concept, and makes use of them. When it appears that most professionals have never had any contact with BIM software, highlights the need for the dissemination of this concept and the facilities it can offer the professional AEC. Such facilities can be identified by improving visualization of the object modeled and increasing productivity, integrating information from multiple projects in a single digital model, as it can beverified in ArchiCAD and Revit software.