500 Word Draft Abstract

Digital Enhancement for Clash Detection

This paper is to discuss the current state of architectural design clashes and errors which aims to apply practical applications of ideas and tools for architects, designers, engineers and other professions when designing and documenting buildings. This clash detector objective is to identify and find potential faults right from stage 1 before a single brick is being laid, by performing an advance clash detection of BIM information take off and to investigate the quality of your BIM files by automating the process to analyse and present to the clients of relevant problems quickly and easily to avoid expensive reworking by knowing your BIM model comply with the constraints. In a constantly changing environment, nothing its perfect, precise and accurate, this is because we are trying to represent a perfect design in an imperfect world through various software, where parties are working independently. For these reasons, there’s always going to be clashes and hidden errors in every project. Clash reports are the indicator of a virus for every project leader in the Built Environment. Therefore, it’s very important to know what to identify, find the potential problems and then to be able to extract whatever information is meaningful for us. This research paper will underpin some of the key focal points and the foundations of how clashes occurred and may occur, is it a miscommunication factor, the complexity of the design or is it the shift of attention from the design process to design product etc. to digitally enhance the construction methods. The methodology to be employed and carried out is through case studies and surveys of the existing clash detection process against the Block Chain principle for my proposed clash detection methodology. The purpose of block chain principle proposal is to provide a model/record book keeping record and documenting the working procedure/process with revision stages to support collaboration matrix between parties to potentially reducing cost and the amount of labouring hours reworking on the project by automating and running the design frequent of clash detection check to reduce the complexity in the design process which leads to the breaking on the key aspect of standardise and prioritise in the clash reports for the AEC (Architecture, Engineering & Construction) industry. The anticipated outcomes of this research are to create a workflow that informs users the procedure testing and an opportunity to provide a more user friendly and intuitive workflow to effectively eliminates clashes and achieves comparable or possibly better accuracy prediction. For future testing, our approach can support any implicit and parametric geometric representation that supports both solid and curve geometry intersection. At some point of practical testing, some of the approaches would cross path between the accuracy and computational efficiency to accommodates the requirements. The case study is used to demonstrate and examine the feasibility of the result by a set of ranked feasible sequence and the frequent occurrence and reoccurrence of clashes against how frequent should the clash warning or alert be automating prompt for the user to evaluate the output.

Keywords: BIM, Clash, Standardise, Prioritise, Miscommunication, Complexity, Automation

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