Author(s)

JOAO LUIS PEREIRA DE SA, PABLO HECTOR GONZALEZ ALFARO

Abstract

The Construction Industry’s digitalisation is an iterative and ongoing process where digital tools have been primarily focused on the design and modelling and lacking traction in the adjacent stages. Communication methodologies between parties are not evolving at the same rate compared with digitalisation production. Similarly, educational institutions lack the resources to facilitate the students’ growth associated with the BIM process. Different commercial entities have been tackling the issue for some time, producing tools that significantly reduce this effect. Implementing a CDE (Common Data Environment) in a pedagogical environment can improve multidisciplinary feedback across lecturers teaching different building specialities. Using digital solutions with an intuitive human interface reduces the distance between students and teachers. A CDE tool such as Dalux® provides a platform aimed for the AEC industry with an amplitude of instruments that serve the building’s whole information cycle. The Copenhagen School of Architectural Technology and Construction Management has consistently been implementing in their programs the most recent BIM solutions to provide new graduates with competences to cope with industry challenges. In doing so, innovative applications of didactics strategies have been successfully applied in the light of favourable results. Students need a comprehensive understanding and application of communication flows when solving their school assignments from an industry practice perspective. In 2020, the school decided to implement Dalux in the program as a pilot project to analyse the feasibility of using the software on a major scale with promising results. This paper presents the Dalux implementation at the school, exploring the didactic and professional approach based on factual data from case studies and learning outcomes during the period of investigation.

Keywords

AEC, CDE, Dalux, documentation, digitalisation, communication