DEVELOPING BIM-BASED SHOP DRAWING AUTOMATED SYSTEM INTEGRATED WITH 2D BARCODE IN CONSTRUCTION

The application of BIM (Building Information Modeling) has become the most critical and useful tool for communication management during the construction phase of a construction project. Managers and engineers usually utilize 2D shop drawings for construction works during construction phase. However, there are many problems of the 2D shop drawings regarding to communication in practice. By using BIM approach, users can get a visual overview of 3D BIM models and effective communications through 3D BIM models. In order to let onsite engineers review BIM models quickly and effectively, this study proposes a BIM-based Shop Drawing Automated (BSDA) system integrated with 2D barcode during the construction phase. This BSDA system later then been applied to selected projects in Taiwan to verify our proposed methodology and demonstrate the effectiveness of BIM-based shop drawing automation and integration in practice. By utilizing BSDA system, on-site managers and engineers can easily scan those 2D barcode that generated automatically by using this BSDA system to open 3D BIM models for discussion. The result demonstrates that the advantage of the BSDA system not only lies in improving communicating work efficiency in the 3D environment, but also facilitates easy BIM model approach to integrate with 2D barcode.