BIM Course for Local MEP Practice

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Duration: 21 hours
Instructor: David Fung
Award: Certificate of Completion CEII MEP
Cost: $10550

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Minimum No. of students in Class: 8

Prerequisites

Assessment Method

By attendance, course work, quiz, examination, etc.

Course Content

Day 1 

Project Setup

1. Project Execution Plan
2. BIM Standard
3. Starting a Revit Project
4. Starting a project using Revit templates
5. Touring the user interface
6. Linking other models
7. Copying levels and setting up monitoring
8. Creating floor plans
9. Viewing the models

MEP Modelling

1. Revisit Revit Electrical

1. Adding receptacles
2. Adding panels
3. Creating spaces
4. Creating a circuit
5. Adding lighting fixtures
6. Adding switches
7. Creating a lighting circuit
8. Creating a switching circuit
9. Creating and labeling a wiring plan
10. Adding conduit
11. Creating conduit types
12. Adding cable tray

2. Revit Mechanical (MVAC)

1. Starting a mechanical project
2. Adding mechanical equipment
3. Adding air terminals
4. Adding supply duct
5. Adding return duct
6. Adding duct accessories and fittings
7. Sizing duct
8. Tagging duct
9. Adding zones and heating and cooling loads

3. Revisit Revit Plumbing / Drainage

1. Creating a plumbing view
2. Adding fixtures and domestic supply piping
3. Adding sanitary sloped piping
4. Adding equipment
5. Adding more piping
6. Creating a system
7. Adding pipe accessories
8. Tagging items
9. Looking at the System Browser

4. Revisit Revit Fire Services

1. Creating a sprinkler view
2. Adding sprinklers
3. Creating sprinkler pipe types
4. Modeling mains
5. Modeling branch lines
6. Adding pipe accessories
7. Tagging items
8. Adding specialty items
9. Creating a fire alarm circuit
10. Adding fire alarm devices

Day 2

MEP Families

1. Basic Concepts

1. Understanding family hierarchy
2. Using models vs. annotation
3. Exploring libraries and resources

2. Annotation MEP Families

1. Kinds of annotation families
2. Creating an annotation family
3. Creating a tag family
4. Shared parameters for tags

3. Simple MEP Model Families

1. The family creation process
2. Creating a new model family
3. Adding reference planes, constraints, and parameters
4. Adding geometry
5. Using instance parameters
6. Understanding work planes
7. Adding a revolve

4. Family Geometry

1. Understanding reference planes
2. Creating extrusions
3. Creating revolves
4. Creating blends
5. Creating sweeps
6. Creating swept blends
7. Using void forms

5. Beyond Geometry

1. Working with identity data
2. Adding family types
3. Creating type catalogs
4. Using material parameters
5. Sharing materials
6. Creating visibility parameters
7. Understanding subcategories

6. A Family in a Family

1. Understanding nested families
2. Building parametric arrays
3. Creating a family type parameter
4. Understanding shared families
5. Creating a profile family
6. Creating a parametric table edge
7. Modifying a profile

7. Controlling Visibility

1. Understanding symbolic lines
2. Editing element Visibility
3. Ensuring the display of overhead items in a plan

8. Building a Complex Parametric Model Family

1. Introducing complex families
2. Adding reference planes and importing nested families
3. Building arrays and applying rules
4. Adding formulas
5. Working with family type parameters and flip controls
6. Loading a model family

9. Creating a Parametric Key Plan

1. Tracing a view
2. Adding zones
3. Adding conditional formulas
4. Flexing the key plan

10.Controlling Rotation Work Planes and Shared Parameters

1. Understanding rotation in families
2. Building geometry on a reference line
3. Hosting a nested family on a reference line
4. Driving parameters for nested families
5. Shared parameters

Day 3

Issue of Drawings

1. Issue of Drawing Workflow

1. Creating detail views
2. Importing CAD
3. Importing details
4. Creating Legends
5. Creating sheets
6. Printing sheets
7. Creating schedules
8. Using phasing
9. Working with text
10. Working with dimensions
11. Looking at mechanical settings
12. Simple Modify techniques
13. Making and controlling revisions
14. Copying Model Elements to Clipboard
15. Working with Model Groups
16. Using Detail Groups
17. Filling Out Title Blocks & Title Tags

2. Collaboration

1. Cloud Collaboration
2. Glue Publishing
3. Clash Detection Matrix
4. Spatial Planning for E/M provisions
5. Spatial data modeling and acquisition
6. MEP Quantity Take Off
7. Discrepancy between modelling quantities and measured quantities
8. Contractor submissions
9. SEM Drawings
10. CSD Drawings
11. Shop drawings
12. MEP Supplier information
13. As built BIM information
14. Value of MEP Data

3. Project Delivery

1. Creating & Saving a Local Copy
2. Working with a Central File
3. Model Maintenance
4. Dealing with a Corrupt Central Model
5. Restoring a Backup
6. MEP Plugins

Note :

1. Group registration is made feasible.  Please contact us for further details.
2. Customized course to suit particular organization is welcome. Please contact us for further arrangements.

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