BUILDING INFORMATION MODELS AS A BASIS OF PROCESS AUTOMATION DURING CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Methods of engineering, process mechanization and automation, project organization and management are interrelated and geared at a common objective – to shorten periods and ensure quality of construction, to prolong life cycles of construction projects by applying engineering and technical solutions on automatic control of processes with the use of construction information models and technologies, data obtained by instrumental measurements at all life cycle stages. Designing of integrated models and methods of automated systems for diagnostics of building operating conditions is an initial stage of development of a complex automated system that ensures serviceability of buildings. Components for instrumental measurements and program processing of data are integral parts of the automated system. Therefore measurements and software are the basic elements for automation of engineering processes at all stages of life cycle of buildings.