The planning of slots and openings for MEP services is one of the most inefficient, time-consuming and highly co-dependent tasks in the AEC industry. This communication-intensive coordination process is often conducted between architectural, structural and MEP disciplines either in a plan-based or model-based approach. The existing approval methods for slots and openings coordination require resending and comparing files or models to communicate a single void object (‘Provision for Void’ object or PfV object). This leads to inconsistency in planning, causes confusion, and limits reliable history tracking of objects. The thesis developed an object-based openBIM concept for slot and opening coordination using a database-driven workflow with a ‘single source of truth’ approach. This eliminates the need for resending files or models to communicate a single PfV object. In addition, it overcomes the limitations of pure file-based versioning for tracking previous approval decisions and changes of PfV objects. The concept facilitates object-based coordination with the most up-to-date information of PfV objects and object-level history tracking. Thus, the concept can speed up the slot and opening coordination and helps to maintain consistency through a supported approach. This results in improving design quality and providing planners with a more efficient method for slot and opening planning in BIM projects.     «

The planning of slots and openings for MEP services is one of the most inefficient, time-consuming and highly co-dependent tasks in the AEC industry. This communication-intensive coordination process is often conducted between architectural, structural and MEP disciplines either in a plan-based or model-based approach. The existing approval methods for slots and openings coordination require resending and comparing files or models to communicate a single void object (‘Provision for Void’ object...     »