How to Improve Collaboration Efficiency in the Built Environment of Factories by Using an Integrated Factory Modelling Concept – An Expert Study
Peter Burggräf, Matthias Dannapfel, Matthias Ebade Esfahani, Nora Schwamborn
Abstract
Factory design involves the design of a complex production system in coherence with the requirements of the surrounding building envelope. These two disciplines, however, are still not integrated in order to be able to perform a completely BIM-based factory design that can be used to minimise design-related delays and reduce the cost of a factory design project. Main obstacles are unaligned levels of development, lack of transparency of informational relations and inefficient collaboration between production design and MEP(H) design. The objective of this paper is hence the generation and discussion of two concrete solution recommendations through an explorative expert study to overcome the already identified obstacles hindering an efficient BIM-based factory design process.