Graphic Communication and Design

First semester, first year for construction management students

Hand drawing Simple sketch design 3D CAD documentation

Students struggle with: Understanding scale in drawings Recognising drawing symbols Visualising designs in 3D Documenting 3D designs in 2D paper

format

Francis Francis Jones Morehen Thorp

Source: Building Product News

Building Information Modelling

Increasingly we build our buildings virtually before building them actually

Coordination of different consultants Clash detections Integrated time scheduling – 4D CAD Automatic quantities and costing

The problem ArchiCAD is difficult to learn if you

have no background in construction drawing

Existing training programs tend to assume some prior knowledge

Students starting from scratch need a lot of support

The two screen solution 32 short YouTube videos Students can watch these on their I

Pads while working through the program on their laptop or home computer

http://www.youtube.com/embed/si_rjJwSPwQ?list=PLZsIiam7ad3Clc8ULRx2S1_X5NrSpsF5I

A powerful design tool for visualising the future