C - Coordination

06 - Structural Coordination

1 - Understand what is structural

Structural refers to the elements in a building that are loadbearing, normally: Footings, Retaining walls, columns, load bearing walls, and slabs.

These are the items defined by the structural engineer.

2 - Structural Materials

Masonry: Bricks, hollow blocks, Stone

Core-filled Masonry: Concrete filled Blocks

Off-Form Concrete: Mass concrete

Pre-Formed Concrete: AFS, Dincel and other propietary systems

Steel: I beams, H beams....

Timber: Studs, Beams...

3 - Source of Truth. Documentation Management

The project manager is in charge of receiving, recording in assets and listing in the SOT folder what ever is the structural documentation to follow

1. Structural is issued

2.  "IN" Asset register allocated to the stakeholder

3. Review of documentation

4. Notification of status to the Stakeholder

5. Documentation is saved in SOT

6. Model Tool in the APP is updated

7. _LINKs are updated (CAD or Revit)

8. A revit file name: {Project.Code] - [Term] - 06 - Structural  [YYMMDD]  is created.

9. A copy of the Structural model is made named: {Project.Code] - [Term] - 06 - Structural [YYMMDD] - MODIFIED - [Version] - [Author]  is created.

10. The "06 - Modified" is linked in the "03 - Architectural" , and the "03 - Architectural" is linked in the "06 - Modified"

4 - Working with the "06 - Modified Structural" model

It is easier to open architectural and modified structural always in different instances of revit, so you can works with the link models as references

5 - Working with the "03 - Architectural" model

For quality assurance, there are many benefits on saving versions of the linked files/models, however there is one main con and that is the need to relink these updated versions with the risk of missing a more updated version of a file.

It is the responsibility of the person using a file, prior to starting modelling to check: Keynote file and Linked modes, and relink these items if necessary

Structural elements require to have openings as holes, exactly the way is going to be built, this means that the hole must be created in the Modified model at the exact location. (this is real life guys!)

Finishes and linings are modelled as walls around structural elements.

5 - Quality Control

It is key to have views ready to print that demostrate the source of information and the departures from it.

This views will need to be

The structural modified vs the structural as received

this is a view that underlays the structural files as received by the structural engineer (normally cad format) 

The structural modified over the Architecture

This views show the architecture greyed out and demostrate how the modified structure adapts to the requirements of the architecture.

96 - Structura