Project Info

3D modeling for modular wood construction planning

Hongyan Liu | hyliu@mines.edu

New type of wood construction rely on prefabricated building components to make the construction more efficient both in time and material used. This project will assist an on-going large scale building test project to conduct 3D modeling of a 10-story wood building (will be designed in the on-going project) specifically for constructability check and sequencing. The building will be a full-scale mass timber structure made out of cross laminated timber and glulam beams/columns. The vision is to include all details of the design in a pre-construction 3D model and virtually construct the building in advance to help identify any potential issues.

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students can look at this video to have an idea on the building they will model in detail. THis video is only a preliminary model, we need detailed model for every connection and components

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeZSr3msobM&list=PLKIVT1DxTn-3MqzcryrJLPOGhL-HPJYvK&index=18&t=7s

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