Components Information Model of Industrialized Residential Buildings with LightWeight Steel Framing System

Abstract:

The policy of new housing industrialization is being implemented by Chinese government, and using industrialization way to build residential buildings has become a hot competitive area to related enterprises. Up to now, industrialized residential buildings with lightweight steel framing system are much close to the industrialized way in manufacturing products in factory and assembling on site, and the construction management of the industrialized residential buildings is the most likely to apply the advanced management concepts and technology of manufacturing industry. In this paper, the main activities, as well as the corresponding information in the whole construction processes were analyzed for industrialized residential buildings with lightweight steel framing system in the information age. Then, a BIMbased information model for the typical industrialization components, i.e., lightweight steel framing walls, was established considering the whole construction processes using the “family” concept of Revit software. Finally, a coding design rule for common components of the industrialized residential buildings was suggested.