Airport Building Information Modelling Edition: first

This book is about Airport Building Information Modelling. This is a term to deliberately highlight the use of Building Information Modelling as a new methodology for airports. Since Building Information Modelling is tightly linked with building construction, there is a prejudiced perception of BIM being useful only for buildings including existing or heritage buildings but not for civil engineering projects such as highways, railways or other infrastructure projects. Due to its nature, airport construction can encapsulate all the elements of construction types, e.g. buildings, railways, auto parks, and roads. If BIM can be used in airport construction, why not for civil engineering projects too? The term “Airport BIM” refers to the use of BIM for more complicated and sophisticated infrastructure projects, paving the way for BIM use beyond buildings. If Airport BIM can be explained clearly using real data from a real airport project that is using BIM, it will then be possible [...]to widen the spectrum for BIM use and mitigate the prejudiced understanding about BIM use being limited to buildings only. Overall, the main purpose of this book is to identify how BIM can be used in airport construction projects to support design process, communication and coordination, concurrent design and construction practice, sustainable design and construction, construction planning and cost management, clash detection and timely procurement and effective facilities management. In addition, this book provides data and examples of a real case for BIM and Big Data Management. The holistic focus is to articulate how to utilize BIM throughout all phases of an airport project in design, construction and facility management. The chapters that follow clarify the substantial topics that should be considered in utilization of Airport BIM, and respectively these chapters are: “Airport Design and Construction”, “Airport Building Information Modelling”, “Concurrent Design and Construction with BIM”, “Mobile BIM for the Airport Construction”, “Key Learnings about ABIM and Paving the Way for Airport Operations”, and “Conclusion”. The Istanbul New Airport project is briefly described in the next section.