Structural BIM Services New Zealand

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BIM Helps Structural Engineers To Construct
Earthquake Resilient Buildings
Created By
Silicon Engineering Consultants Limited Wellington
E-mail info_at_siliconec.co.nz
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• It would be the only half-witted decision of
  general contractors to put profits on priority
  during infrastructure development and civilians
  safety, secondary, against natural calamities
  such as earthquakes, floods, blizzards etc. To
  construct disaster-resilient buildings and
  infrastructure structural engineers, civil
  engineers, steel and rebar detailers keep
  themselves updated with constantly evolving
  earthquake engineering and sciences of seismic
  natural occurrences.

• Researchers have designed fibre-reinforced
  concrete beams, base isolated buildings and what
  not.

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• BIM technology holds all the four aces to turn
  the game of infrastructure development in favour
  of structural and civil engineers.

• By leveraging BIM technology, proportionately,
  structural engineers can reach the zenith of
  building and infrastructure development. BIM
  along with a finessed 3D model of infrastructure
  and/or custom API programming have the capability
  to conduct fortification analysis and seismic
  analysis of the structure. Seismic retrofitting,
  design coordination and building codes are some
  of the sectors where BIM plays protagonist with
  its imperative virtual design and construction
  tools.

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• With continuous population explosion, the lateral
  expansion of buildings has in fact shifted to
  vertical rise. Skyscrapers and high-rises have
  become an increasing necessity of urban
  infrastructure development along with flyovers,
  bridges and underground tubes.
• Building Information Modeling incorporates early
  seismic needs, to eliminate design modification
  once the construction starts. Information rich
  intelligent BIM ready 3D models of infrastructure
  designs are critical when complying with the
  seismic specification.

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Compliance to designs and building codes in BIM
environment minimizes seismic effect damages
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• Regulations call for a two-inch space between
  ducts to prevent damages in the earthquake and
  its inclusion in 3D models is an example of how
  neatly BIM ensures correctness of designs and
  compliance to codes.
• Fundamentally, with BIM, any hanger, brace etc.
  can be modelled designs of sleeves, decks,
  roofs, beams, columns etc. can also be validated
  using BIM. Alongside, by developing more custom
  plugins and tools that offer access to their
  APIs, tasks are automated and code compliance
  checking is streamlined.

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Retrofitting of Earthquake Affected Infrastructure
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• Having said this, BIM plays a significant role
  while working on retrofitting of earthquake
  affected infrastructure and buildings. It
  captures the reality of the as built condition of
  any structure with help of point cloud
  information and converting it to 3D BIM models or
  photogrammetry.
• Upon modelling and analysis of this captured
  information in BIM structural software such as
  Autodesk Revit Structure, it shows the
  displacement under seismic load when virtually
  simulated.

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Fiber and Steel Columns and Base Isolation
Methods for Sustaining Seismic Vibration
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Parkview Tower, 21 Putney Way,
Manukau, Auckland, 2104,
New Zealand.