MECHANICAL SYSTEMS FOR CONSTRUCTION

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PHYSICS 202 , 208 , 248 , graduate/professional standing, or member of engineering guest students Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore the Building Information Modeling (BIM) interface and BIM360 interface Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Draft a 3D building model to explain how information is inter-related throughout the BIM model Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop a project which includes stairs and “feature architectural designs”, structural and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) components to strengthen BIM modeling skill sets Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Integrate architectural, structural and MEP building components into a 3D model and avoid clashes between the building systems Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Extract construction document sheets from the 3D model Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Collaborate with multiple users across a wide area network and save their work to a central file Audience: Graduate 7. Streamline data management and work from remote locations using a local server Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explore the Building Information Modeling (BIM) interface and BIM360 interface Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Draft a 3D building model to explain how information is inter-related throughout the BIM model Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop a project which includes stairs and “feature architectural designs”, structural and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) components to strengthen BIM modeling skill sets Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Integrate architectural, structural and MEP building components into a 3D model and avoid clashes between the building systems Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Extract construction document sheets from the 3D model Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Collaborate with multiple users across a wide area network and save their work to a central file Audience: Graduate 7. Streamline data management and work from remote locations using a local server Audience: Graduate