Integrated model for BIM and risk data in construction projects

Abstract

The acceleration in the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) techniques in many countries around the world makes BIM technology a global research trend. A few studies have shown how risk information can be properly managed in a BIM environment. This research aims to improve the risk management process using BIM techniques and proposes a new methodology within a BIM system to manage risk information for construction projects. The risk register, which represents the final risk information, and the Revit program, which represents one of the BIM platforms, are integrated using the Dynamo program in this paper’s proposed new method for integrating risk information with the BIM system. Two types of information are automatically transferred from the risk register to the BIM model: first, data and numbers, such as ‘Risk score,’ ‘Risk status,’ etc; this allows integration of risk information with the rest of the project parameters in the BIM system to achieve BIM system integration. Second, colors, where the elements are coloured the same colour as the degree of risk in the risk register. The proposed methodology demonstrates how visualisation can be used to identify risks, as visualisation is one of the most important features of BIM, and how risk information can be linked to BIM, making risk management more effective and accurate than the traditional method.