Research on masonry structure layout design based on BIM technology*

As an important segment in construction, the constructional quality of masonry engineering has a significant influence on the overall project quality. But because masonry structure construction work is heavy, which involves many construction teams, and all of which are manual operation, there always are quality problems caused by the such technical errors as the masonry “construction joint”, “mortar joint”, material waste and reserved hole not meeting the designated position demands. BIM technology can not only solve the existing technical problems of masonry engineering by deepening the design of block arrangement in advance, but also be used for timely typesetting and error correction, as well as drawing to guide field construction, in case of problems during construction. Together with the feedback on construction problems, dynamic management of the whole construction process ensures masonry project quality. At the same time, the automatic statistics counting function of the block quantity of BIM can carry out fine management of field masonry materials and reduce waste, so as to provide a basis for cost budget. From the above, it is not hard to see that BIM technology plays an important role in quality control and cost control of masonry engineering.