Building Information Modeling simplifies the workflow of the glass and curtain wall industry with its new emerging role

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 22, 2009 -- The glass and curtain wall industry is now applying Building Information Modeling technology rapidly to participate and survive on their projects. The glazing system suppliers and contract glaziers will provide dedicated and knowledgeable BIM services and emerge as a highly valued specially contractor before 2015

In fact, the Glass Association of North America’s (GANA) Building Envelope Contractor’s (BEC) division is engaged for intriguing steps to train the industry ready for BIM.

Technical Glass Products America is now applying BIM technology for creating models of its products and publishing. The firm has now modeled its full line of fire-rated glazing products, framing systems, steel curtain wall, doors and windows including products, for instance, the Pilkington Profilit channel glass.
Contract glazing firm ‘Trainor Glass Co.’ has also modeled several custom impact glass curtainwall systems successfully.

A large numbers of building products companies as well as curtain wall manufacturers, glass fabricators and component suppliers are creating their products in BIM and making BIM libraries for future application. This system will also provide assistance to building products companies for making their position better for getting architectural specification.

BIM will create a new collaborative IPD contracting form as this 3D modeling software will permit planners, designers, manufacturers, contractors, glazing subcontractors and owners to work from the similar object-related database.

With IPD and more design build, glass fabricators get the ability to inherit the design progression and support the BIM model as shop drawings. “Instead of the architects creating one set of models and the fabricators creating another set from that, they’re creating one set to meet both needs,” said EcoBuild America speaker Diane Davis.

Glass fabricators have the opportunity “to create virtual model catalogs, so their products work as little BIM sub-models that carry the manufacturers’ data, energy data and carbon footprint data,” Davis said. “These can be downloaded by architects and designers for their model.” “Fabricators should not create files for all the BIM programs as they did with CAD, but create their program with the IFC, or Industry Foundation Classes, an international open standard for BIM” she said.

Pinnacle Infotech has expertise in designing, drafting & modeling the curtain wall and glazing system through state of the art BIM and CAD software. Pinnacle generates different kinds of shop drawing including Aluminum Cladding Shop Drawings, Glass Entrance Shop Drawings, Curtainwall Shop Drawings, Rain Screen Cladding Shop Drawings, Window Shop Drawings, All other Glazing Shop Drawings. Pinnacle also offers 3D modeling services for glass and aluminum glazing systems, curtain wall and window wall etc.

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