In this first part of a two-part series, guest author Brian Kish highlights five key steps for designing extra-large projects in Revit. From hardware to model organization to drawing management, Brian shares the lessons he learned as the BIM Manager on the Medyan One Mall project, an extra-large retail complex currently under construction in Dubai.
With the introduction of Revit and other building information modeling (BIM) programs, the building industry has made huge strides in efficiency in the last decade. Many offices now have BIM standards and execution plans for the types of projects they typically work on. But what happens when an office wins a project significantly larger than any other project it has previously completed in Revit? Do the drawing and modeling standards developed for smaller projects still apply when confronted by a truly massive project measured in millions of square feet?
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