BIM as a Structural Safety Study Tool in Case of Fire - BIMSCIP

Abstract

In this article, we will discuss how BIM modeling technology can be used to improve the safety of people and buildings in fire-fighting and panic. The objective of this research is to construct an automation methodology of the process of verification of fire compliance, which allows the development of a computation tool more agile and less prone to errors than the manual method currently in use in the Fire Department of the State of Minas Gerais (FDS-MG) in Brazil. The process of creating a plug-in for a BIM environment, a prototype of a computer system called BIMSCIP, will be described and aims to verify the conformity of projects with Fire Department standards. In this work, emphasis will be placed on a particular technical instruction: technical instruction number 06, which deals with the structural safety of buildings in cases of fire. At the current stage the prototype already reads the project and returns consistent results.

Keywords

• spatial analysis
• code checking
• revit
• structural safety
• bim