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Dear Community members,
To promote more efficient and sustainable building design and construction, VELUX and GRAPHISOFT Center Danmark have launched the Project Development Guide — a hands-on BIM guide. The guide includes six webinars, a book publication, and a BIM project that together demonstrate how BIM can best support holistic building design.
BIM is gaining increasing traction in the construction industry. However, there are still many untapped opportunities to further integrate BIM into the design process and enable building designers and architects to streamline workflows, make better use of resources, create better architecture, and develop more sustainable buildings.
To help industry stakeholders better leverage the benefits of BIM, VELUX, in collaboration with GRAPHISOFT Center Denmark, has launched the VELUX Project Development Guide.
The project is based on a single-family home rather than large prestige projects often associated with gaining value from digital design and BIM. The guide demonstrates how BIM can serve as the backbone of a construction project from the earliest sketching phase — for example, through analyses and simulations of surroundings, sun, wind, energy, and daylight. The guide covers all phases and tasks, from sketching and visualization to LCA calculations and daylight simulations, as well as design development and interdisciplinary coordination — all within a unified BIM workflow.
Six Webinars and a Book Publication
As part of the launch, six free webinars will be held until the end of May. The webinars provide participants with insights into all aspects of a construction project, and throughout the six sessions, attendees will gain an overview of how an integrated BIM workflow leads to better construction by balancing design quality, technical precision, sustainability, and well-being.
You can watch the previously recorded webinars via this playlist
Alongside the webinars, various project materials will be available for download allowing consultants to explore how the BIM project is structured. The launch will culminate in the publication of an online book that compiles the key insights into how BIM creates added value in smaller construction projects.
You can read more about the project, download project materials, sign up for the webinars, and later on read the guidebook on this page: VELUX Project Development Guide
A Hands-On Guide for Building Designers
Martin Let Hansen, BIM Manager at VELUX and initiator of the new guide, says:
“Our Project Development Guide shows, among other things, how LCA calculations and simulations of daylight and indoor climate become an integrated part of the overall BIM workflow — and how building designers can adjust their designs based on the results to achieve buildings with lower environmental impact and improved well-being for occupants. The ambition is to provide architects and design professionals with a practical, hands-on guide by showcasing a complete BIM-based workflow based on a real construction project and using a range of widely recognized tools.”
Thomas Graabæk, owner of GRAPHISOFT Center Danmark, welcomes the introduction of a best-practice BIM guide to the construction industry:
“In large hospital projects, office buildings, and cultural institutions, there is a consensus that BIM creates value. With this guide, we show that BIM also adds value to smaller projects — it’s fundamentally about leveraging all the possibilities in BIM tools to test volumes, creating visualizations, conducting LCA calculations, analysing daylight intake, and experiment with different materials, among other things. I’m pleased that, together with VELUX, we can show architects and other building designers how they can harvest all the advantages of BIM in their projects — for the benefit of their clients, their economy, and the climate.”
Open / Download BIMx hyper-model
The VELUX Project Development Guide uses Archicad as the primary BIM tool. In addition, tools such as DesignLCA, Daylight Visualizer, MEP Designer, FEM-Design, BIMx, and BIMcloud ensure that the guide covers all project phases.
Kind regards,
GRAPHISOFT Center Danmark and VELUX
